Cold Case Files: Happily Ever After?

A crazy tale of baking gone wrong that ends up with a monstrous creation brought down by an animal who wants sugar.

Morissa watched a recent documentary about a woman in school who was bullied because she had jaundice. After some soul-searching, a little support from her roommate, she realized it was not worth trying to change herself to fit in.

A veeeeery long time ago this guy named Ikkor adopted a kid and it ended ... not well.

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Would you be OK with hurting yourself in your endeavors to hurt others?

What starts as a case of simple deceit turns into betrayal and ends in marriage.

A family tries to get to greener pastures but faces down with a monster.

You've heard of sins of the father-- what about sins of the mother? Lots of family drama in this one.

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Have you ever wanted immortality? In this episode we explore the recipe.

Rebroadcast of S01E07. We should be back next week with a new episode! A girl known only by her unique clothing (for the time period) has a fateful encounter with a wild animal who wreaks havoc on her family. What ensues is a battle of wits which ends with her nearly dying were it not for a roving hunter.

Rebroadcast of S01E06. Jealousy and greed fuel a series of heinous crimes. A woman's extreme narcissism drives her to commission the murder of her innocent stepdaughter.

Rebroadcast of S01E04. Mo and Elissa discuss a bizarre happening that doesn't have a lot of heavy crime. The girl of an alcoholic father forces her to do an impossible alchemical task but she's aided by a mysterious stranger whom she pays with jewelry. When she's not able to pay, he demands her first-born child after she marries her captor.

A rebroadcast of our 2nd episode. Elissa has found a strange case where everyone's behavior is criminal-- including the police. Step-mothers strike again as two children get abandoned to fend for themselves in the forest. They stumble upon a house owned by an old woman who practices cannibalism. Later, the girl (Gretel) is accused of murder when it was clearly self defense. EDITOR'S NOTE: Sorry about the BG noise after the break.

A rebroadcast of our debut episode. In this episode, we've got an orphaned girl who has to deal with her abusive step-family who will do anything to rob her of her inadvertent rise to royalty as the queen.

Lots of alchemy in this one! A brother gets revenge for his slain sibling and manages to resurrect some people.

Are gnomes real? No way! As usual, these ones make stuff but the guy who finds them isn't so scrupulous.

A mother goes to great lengths to rescue her kids from being dinner by engaging in questionable surgery.

This is a bite-sized Cinderella story. But with animals.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE! NOTE: there will be no episode next week as we're all taking some time off. This week, it's the opposite of Santa; and he brings more than coal to bad children.

The case of a guy who outsmarted a bunch of people over the course of the Hanukkah holiday.

We begin with Yorkie farts. What could go wrong?

The violent birth of medicine! Probably.

The maze comes full circle and a guy goes nuts on people who make fun of his wife.

Brush up on your Greek and do not attempt to play a drinking game with the amount of murders in this episode.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Sorry for the crappy audio of Elissa's dad-- he was calling on a phone via his hearing aid and ... well ... it wasn't ideal. Anyway, in this episode, Elissa and Mo discuss the intricacies of flight, wax, and a flat earth.

A really, really superstitious guy meets a ghost on his way home and ends up the victim of fast-moving vegetables.

A guy usurps the throne from his brother, then gathers a bunch of dudes who sail the seas and have dubious encounters-- all in pursuit of ... wool? EDITOR'S NOTE: Sorry about Elissa's audio; she was visiting and we only had a crappy gamer headset mic for her. Boooo.

This case was nuts! Some guy got his mom pregnant (not realizing it was his mom). Mo and E also found out that they had Google a very long time ago.

Mo and E go waaaay back in this week's episode and touch on the political machinations at a grand scale.

First, sorry about last week: technical difficulties. Our recording provider @#$%ed up critical pieces of our episode and we lost it (I won't name names). Since Mo's on the road, our hosts check in and do what they do best: ramble. Website: https://coldcasefileshappilyeverafter.com/

A couple of friends play a weird game that ends up violent because of envy. The hurt one meets a woman who turns out to be an amazing healer.

Same guy from last week gets into trouble while out sailing again.

A guy seeks fortune (as one does) on the high seas and works his way up. During his journeys, he has run-ins with the sea wildlife that he potentially mis-represents.

A princess gets conned into what could have been a cannibalistic experience but ends up escaping after witnessing a brutal murder. Back home, nobody believes her weird tale until she presents some pretty macabre evidence.

Third-hand evidence about a violent guy who gets revenge and slays a monster.

In a time without DNA, how do you actually know if someone is royalty or not?

A king saves his own skin by making a deal with a witch. He tries to mitigate the risks of the fine print. Clothing that causes a weird curse with some really specific terms but they mostly figure it out.

Elissa finds a story of the granddaddy of all cons, affecting a town from the poorest all the way to the top, with the ultimate mark being royalty. Amazingly, they get away with it! Was it a civil crime, just playing on his narcissism, or was it actually criminal?

Ever heard of the affluenza defense? Elissa and Mo make the case this week and present all of the evidence-- but it's up to you to decide!

Another unsolved case from the Grimm's. An overly-expensive toy brings the daughter of royalty together with a speaking amphibian who starts to make some creepy demands. His excuse is he was the victim of sadistic heart surgery.

What starts with a simple disagreement over the inheritance of the family business leads to a cave full of treasure, retribution from the local organized crime ring, premeditated self-defense (if that is a thing), and a rags-to-riches conclusion.

A poor farmer sets out to sell his livestock at the market but ends up being conned by the buyer into purchasing seeds purported to have special properties. One thing leads to another and this farmer begins stealing to make ends meet. The escalation leads to a brutal murder.

A case from 1284 Germany focusing on a professional rat-catcher who set himself apart by using a very humane and unique method of drawing out the rats and disposing of them in the river-- all of this without ever touching them! He had a contract with a specific town, executed services on the contract, but was unpaid. In retribution (bordering on psychopathic vengeance), he kidnaps almost all of the kids from the town, leaving behind only the kids with disabilities. Where did he take them? Were they put to work on a farm? Were they sold into forced labor?

This week, Elissa and Morissa take on a potential insurance fraud case of a guy who allegedly fakes his own disappearance from his family and society only to re-emerge 20 years later.

We tackle our oldest case yet! In this one we focus on the contract law between a blue-collar worker and some sort of magical being found inside furniture who strike a deal. Morissa also gives an update an what she's found about the Darling family.

Orphan boy kidnaps some kids from London to a place without technology. There, they are forced to join a gang and battle a band of racist pirates led buy a man with severe herpetophobia. While serious crimes, there isn't any murder-- so that's good, right?

A girl known only by her unique clothing (for the time period) has a fateful encounter with a wild animal who wreaks havoc on her family. What ensues is a battle of wits which ends with her nearly dying were it not for a roving hunter.

Tucked away in the dark, ominous woods lurks a sinister dame with a beak-like schnoz and teeth as hard as steel. Her abode is a freakish shack propped up on chicken legs, scurrying about like it's alive. Some whisper that she possesses supernatural abilities, capable of aiding the desperate, but many tremble at the thought of her wicked ways. Rumor has it that she's constantly cranky, but can you really blame her? Living in a chicken-legged hut can't be easy. Perhaps she needs a good therapist or some anger management classes. Who knows? All we know for sure is that if you're ever in the forest and stumble upon her hut, it's probably best to tiptoe away before she catches you snooping.

Jealousy and greed fuel a series of heinous crimes. A woman's extreme narcissism drives her to commission the murder of her innocent stepdaughter.

EDITOR'S NOTE: We got the audio right! Mo and Elissa discuss a bizarre happening that doesn't have a lot of heavy crime. The girl of an alcoholic father forces her to do an impossible alchemical task but she's aided by a mysterious stranger whom she pays with jewelry. When she's not able to pay, he demands her first-born child after she marries her captor.