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Cold Case Files: Murder in the Bayou

Crime · 2024

Last aired: S1 E6, Monster in Bayou Pigeon · 2025-01-31

Narrated by Keith David, "Cold Case Files: Murder In the Bayou" features stories that the swamp threatened to swallow forever, but detectives managed to drag out into the light. These investigators, family, and friends know that no matter how deep in the muck it's buried, no sin stays secret forever.

Cast

Keith David Narrator

Season 1

E1 A Trinity River Murder 2024-12-27 · 60 min When the supposed great-niece of Marilyn Monroe, Krystal Jean Baker, 13, is found dead beneath a bridge in Texas' Bayou Country, investigators are stumped. The quest to track down her killer will take investigators 14 years, and lead to a new law.

E2 The Devil in Hammond 2025-01-03 · 60 min When a young mother, Selonia Reed, 26, is found brutally murdered in her car, detectives turn over every rock in small town Hammond, Louisiana in search of her killer. Selonia's case languishes for more than 30 years before justice is finally served.

E3 Lost Soul in Lafayette 2025-01-10 · 60 min When the body of free-spirited Bonnie Ruphard, 47, is spotted by a runner in Lafayette, LA, police suspect domestic violence. The case sits for a decade until DNA places a sprawling Bayou family under the microscope for her murder.

E4 Horror in Starkville Mississippi 2025-01-17 · 60 min When Betty Jones, 65, and Kathryn Crigler, 81, are brutally attacked in a 1990 home invasion, the tiny community of Starkville, MS is left living in fear. Decades pass, until a detective devotes himself to cracking the case using new technology.

E5 Evil in Cajun Country 2025-01-24 · 60 min The town of Alexandria, Louisiana is rocked when the body of Courtney Coco, 19, is found dumped 200 miles from home in Winnie, Texas. The case cools until a retired homicide detective, turned podcaster, discovers her killer hiding in plain sight.

E6 Monster in Bayou Pigeon 2025-01-31 · 60 min In 1991 Curtis "Cochise" Smith, 29, heads out for diapers in Plaquemine, Louisiana and vanishes. Twenty-five-years later, a body surfaces in the bayou and Cochise's murder case reignites. A local with a long rap sheet becomes the prime suspect.

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