Cold Case Files: Murder in the Bayou

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.