True Crime

COLD CASES SOLVED

Circle Of Insight Productions

A podcast dedicated to highlighting cold cases that have been solved and closed. We share these cases to highlight their resolution and bring closure to the victims and the community

Episodes

20 of 162 episodes

A Serial Killer Across Four States: DNA Links Ricky Dawson to a 1992 San Francisco Murder

After more than three decades, San Francisco prosecutors have charged Ricky Dawson in the 1992 rape and strangulation of Nancy Hernandez, a...

2:55Jul 31, 2026

Silent Evidence Awakens: DNA and Persistence Resolve the 1987 Murder of Opal Weil

: In 1987, the murder of 82-year-old Opal Weil in her Pinellas County home left a community in fear and her family searching for answers ami...

4:37Jul 10, 2026

51 Years, a Landfill, and a Pension: How DNA Finally Caught a Killer in Tucson

October 1975, the partial remains of a 73-year-old Tucson man named William Reginald Sipfle were found in a landfill near Ryan Airfield, wit...

6:12Jun 8, 2026

Shadows in the Bottling Plant: The Long Road to Justice in the Sun Drop Murders

On a quiet Friday morning in June 2008, an armed intruder entered the Sun Drop Bottling Company in Concord, North Carolina, and brutally mur...

6:28May 26, 2026

Unmasking Bundy: New DNA Evidence Closes a 52-Year-Old Utah Cold Case and Opens Doors to Others

In a groundbreaking forensic breakthrough, advanced DNA technology has definitively linked notorious serial killer Ted Bundy to the 1974 mur...

3:47May 19, 2026

Predatory Drift —How Serial Killers Change Hunting Grounds and Vanish Into Cold Cases

Why do some serial offenders suddenly abandon one hunting ground and reappear hundreds of miles away years later? In this deep forensic inve...

23:24May 18, 2026

45 Years Later: How Genetic Forensics Solved the 1981 Murder of Lois Marshall

For nearly five decades, the brutal 1981 murder of 22-year-old Lois Marshall in Galveston, Texas, remained an icy cold case with no answers....

5:15May 15, 2026

Closing the File: The 2007 Murder of Carrie Hicks in Acworth

In February 2007, 25-year-old Carrie Hicks was found dead in a rural New Hampshire home with two gunshot wounds to the head, launching a nea...

4:57May 12, 2026

Case solved after 30 years-Locked in Flames: DNA Justice for the 1992 Weimar Murder of Alwin Schoefer

In August 1992, 85-year-old Alwin Schoefer was brutally beaten, stabbed, and shot inside his Weimar, California home, which was then deliber...

5:06May 6, 2026

The Cindy Wanner Cold Case: Behavioral Persistence, Sexual Predation, and the Forensic Psychology of Delayed Justice

A 34-year-old cold case resurfaces with the arrest of a previously convicted sex offender—revealing critical failures in risk assessment, of...

6:19May 3, 2026

Justice After 18 Years: The Arrest in Tucson’s 2008 Cold Case Halloween Party Murder of James Noriega

Tucson Police have arrested Rafael Alvarez in the long-unsolved 2008 cold case murder of 20-year-old James Noriega, who was shot five times...

4:39Apr 27, 2026

Cold Threads: How a Killer Was Unraveled Decades Later

A true crime and forensic psychology podcast exploring how decades-old evidence—gloves, clothing, and biological traces—helped solve a 1988...

3:36Apr 22, 2026

Botanical Forensics: The Case of the “Guilty” Tree

In this episode, we explore botanical forensics through the compelling concept of the “Guilty Tree,” where plant growth rings and microscopi...

4:22Apr 21, 2026