Watching “Cold Case Files Classic” today. I must say, it involves a fair bit more Actual Forensic Work than the Cold Case Files series I watched earlier this year, tho there is still a lot of “get information from person who finally comes forward/thinks of something.”
Second story of the first episode especially had a lot of forensics. A dead woman’s body was found sealed up in two drums on a property that had gone unopened for years. A major part of the investigation was forensic treatments to the address book that was on the body and eventually gave her identity via it holding her Visa and Immigration info. That and looking into the drums, which were from a now-defunct plastic company.
These episodes are much shorter, having two stories in the same time the other series told one. Less time for misdirection and “drama” I suppose. Tho the first episode was less “who did it” and more “can we prove it” since they already had the person on the kidnapping of the baby (who they’d “adopted” to another couple for a lot of money and then demanded back) and the body of the baby (formerly a Jane Doe Baby until someone rightly connected the two stories and badgered her cop husband until he agreed to test for DNA).
Thus far all but the first episode have also started with a body. That was a bit more of a tossup in the other series since a lot were “missing” cases that escalated.