The Cold Case Ledger

On Christmas Eve 2002, twenty-seven-year-old Laci Peterson — eight months pregnant and planning a holiday dinner — vanished from her Modesto, California home. Her husband Scott said he had been fishing alone at a bay ninety miles away. Months later, the bay gave up its secret. This is the story of a circumstantial case that gripped a nation, a death sentence overturned by the courts, and a legal battle that has never fully closed.

On the night of October 22, 1989, eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was abducted at gunpoint on a rural road in St. Joseph, Minnesota — and for twenty-seven years, no one could say what happened to him. This episode traces the night of the abduction, the massive search that followed, a botched investigation that let the prime suspect walk free for decades, and the eventual confession that gave a grieving family the answers — and the heartbreak — they had waited a generation to receive.

He worked a suicide hotline. He ran political campaigns. He wrote pamphlets on rape prevention — and handed them out to women. This is the story of Ted Bundy: a serial killer who murdered at least thirty people across seven states, escaped from custody twice, and sat on death row for nine years before facing justice. In April 2026, a DNA match finally closed the coldest chapter — fifty-one years after a seventeen-year-old girl named Laura Ann Aime left a Halloween party in Utah and never came home.