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A high school forensic science class moves to advance into a Cold Case research team. Young adults and a teacher are trying to make a difference and bring Cold Case Stories back to the forefront.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
Cold Case MHS turns student-led case work into careful cold case listening, with attention to evidence, victims, and unresolved questions.
Cold Case MHS: Monsters and Demons gives cold case listening a classroom frame. Randy Hubbard appears as a co-host in several sampled episodes, while Mason High School students present victim centered case work and talk through evidence, timelines, forensic questions, and…
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A careful cold-case investigation that makes the identification process as compelling as the crime.
Cold Case MHS treats Marcia King’s long-unidentified death with care and patience. The student-led format works because it stays close to the mechanics of the case: how forensic genealogy led to her name, what SNPs are doing in that process, and why the opt-in question around…
A careful student-led look at Jillian Miles that keeps her life ahead of the crime.
Cold Case MHS keeps Jillian Miles, a young mother of two, at the center and spends its time on who she was before she was shot on February 19, 2013.
A careful student investigation that values verification over polish.
The episode follows Rebecca as a family-oriented woman living a high-risk life, and the students do the hard work of moving from thin public records to coroner files and family contact to sharpen what can actually be said about her death.
A careful student-led cold case that keeps Stacey Colbert centered while staying focused on what the record does and does not show.
Cold Case MHS: Monsters and Demons follows Stacey Colbert's case through victimology, from her return home around 6 p.m. to the point where the investigation becomes a murder case.
A classroom case study that keeps Joan Palacio at the center.
Cold Case MHS: Monsters and Demons keeps Joan Palacio at the center, tracing her high-risk lifestyle, the vacant parking lot by the dumpster where she was found, and the early suspicion that fell on two teenage girls before detectives identified them as past buyers.
A careful cold case episode that stays rooted in uncertainty.
Franklin Benedict's killing is handled as a case built from very little, not as a mystery with clean answers. Franklin J. Benedict, a third shift manager at the Ashtabula Walmart near his apartment, was found there with multiple gunshot wounds after his roommate returned days…
A patient student-led arson case built from records, false starts, and family testimony.
Cold Case MHS, Monsters and Demons follows the 2010 arson that killed Dayana Perry, Charles Clymer Jr., and Breonna Smith, and it gives the case a steady, methodical shape as Emilio and Ryan work through early articles, FOIA requests, and conversations with police and the arson…
A restrained student-led case study that treats fire, evidence, and uncertainty with care.
Cold Case MHS frames Aaliyah Hartman's Springfield, Ohio case as a careful student-led investigation, and it works best when it stays with the forensic uncertainty.
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
Payne Lindsey's season-long investigation into two disappearances from Nome, Alaska.
CBC's true crime feed tracing Cleo's case into cold cases across its investigative podcast network.
Journalists chase a decades-long trail through a coronial inquest and Rick Bloom's dozens of aliases.
A New York Times reporter reinvestigates Laramie's unsolved 1985 murder of Shelley Wiley.
The class looks at the murder of Jennifer Cook, a 35-year-old woman from the Grandview Heights area just off OSU campus.
Cold Case MHS: Monsters and Demons follows the students’ investigation into the April 27, 2006 death of eight-year-old Mackenzie Branham in Jeffersonville, Ohio.
Cold Case MHS follows the case of Angela Lee Hanaway and uses that investigation to open into other related Springfield names.
Randy Hubbard opens the episode by introducing Paul Berry and giving the show a fresh co-host voice.
The episode returns to a 1974 Ohio homicide.
Cold Case MHS follows the identification and murder case of Marcia King, an Arkansas woman found strangled and with lacerations to the liver and blunt force trauma to the head along Greenlee Road in Troy, Ohio.
High school students investigate the 2013 unsolved murder of Jillian Miles, a mother of two who was shot in her home.
The class takes on the case of Rebecca, a woman they found through almost no public record at all.
Cold Case MHS presents the 1998 disappearance and murder of Stacey Colbert, a recent Ohio State graduate found partially six years later in a Delaware County farm field.
The episode follows Joan Palacio.
The students take on Franklin J.
Randy Hubbard and Lydia Lisko bring Emilio and Ryan in to walk through an arson case.
The episode follows a student-led look at the fire death of Aaliyah Hartman in Springfield, Ohio.
The episode opens with Randy Hubbard and Lydia Lisko framing the show as real education meeting real life.
High school students investigate the 1999 murder of 18-year-old Raymond Wells III, who was stabbed 27 times and dragged under a car in Sharonville, Ohio.