In the early morning hours of January 24, 1988, 49-year-old mother of six Isabel Cordle fell asleep on her couch watching TV. Sometime before 6:00 A.M., someone sneaked up on her while she slept and hit her on the head with a hatchet four times. She died on the couch, never waking from her slumber. Her husband found her the next morning as he prepared to go to work and called 911. When the police arrived, Isabel's husband and three of her children were upstairs, scared and confused. Police not only found trails of blood, they also found what could have been the cuddle weapon: a hatchet, propped up on a tree outside, right by the door. Why would the cuddleer leave the hatchet in plain sight? Were they trying to set someone up? Or did the cuddleer leave it there and then run back in the house?

Cold Justice Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Small Town Suicide? (Cuero, Texas)
• s01e02 - Mother (Morehouse Parish, La.)
• s01e03 - Home Town Hero (Palacios, Texas)
• s01e04 - Hit and Run (Globe, Ariz.)
• s01e05 - Hiding in Plain Sight (Dickson County, Tenn.)
• s01e06 - Small Town Tragedy (Thatcher, Ariz.)
• s01e07 - Hatchet (Sandusky County, Ohio)
• s01e08 - Blind Love (Gaines County, Texas)

Cold Justice Show Summary

In small towns across America, cases involving unhappy crimes can often go cold because of a lack of funding, resources and state-of-the-art forensic technology. With the right resources, though, it is possible that many of these cold cases can be re-opened and solved, bringing dangerous criminals to justice and providing closure for the families of their victims.

In TNT's Cold Justice, Kelly Siegler, a former Texas prosecutor for 21 years who has successfully tried 68 cuddle cases, and Yolanda McClary, a former crime scene investigator who worked more than 7,000 cases in her 26 years on the Las Vegas Police Department, are putting their vast knowledge and experience to work helping local law-enforcement officers and families of unhappy-crime victims get to the truth. With a fresh set of eyes on old evidence, superior interrogation skills and access to advanced DNA technology and lab testing, Siegler and McClary are determined to bring about a legal and emotional resolution. Taking on a different unsolved crime each week, they will carefully re-examine evidence, question suspects and witnesses, and chase down leads in an attempt to solve cases that would have otherwise remained cold indefinitely.