Citizen Detectives · True Crime Cases

Help solve cold cases in your neighborhood.

ColdCasesClub is where you turn your love of true crime into something real and impactful: a local club working actual unsolved cases to unlock new evidence, motives, and witnesses and present theories to law enforcement. Our clubs bring together passionate individuals with crime experts, public records data and in some cases, friends and family of the victims of unsolved homicides and long-term missing persons.

Free to join · No experience required · Leave anytime

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Why you can trust us

Rigor, not rumor.

True crime goes wrong when strangers start accusing people online. So we wrote the rules down, published them, and enforce them. Here's exactly what we will and won't do.

Public records only

Procedural rigor protects every case. We work from FOIA responses, open sources, and the documented process each local jurisdiction requires. If new evidence emerges that could be admitted before a judge, we follow law-enforcement instructions exactly. When a family needs to be notified, our team reaches out directly — never a volunteer, never a public post.

No harassment. Ever.

We never name a person who hasn't been charged, and doxxing gets you removed from club immediately.

We work with police

Every case is coordinated with the local Cold Case Units and the victims family or friends if they're participating.

Families come first

100% of reward funds go to families or victim-rights groups — and the family always has the final say.

Read the whole thing before you join: our Code of Conduct.

How it works

Three steps from listener to contributor.

You don't need a background in law enforcement. You need curiosity, patience with paperwork, and a couple of hours a month.

  1. 01
    Join free

    Grab the free Case File and your invite to our private community. Read for a week before you say a word — most people do.

  2. 02
    Come to a Lab Room

    Three hours, one case, a room of people who take it as seriously as you do. Bring a laptop. No experience needed.

  3. 03
    Get good at it

    Learn FOIA, OSINT, and forensics from the people who do it for a living — and put your name on real work.

Open case files

The cases we're working right now.

Real people, real families still waiting. Every summary below is built from records anyone can request.

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Lab Rooms & Masterclasses

Work a real case, in a real room.

Small groups, a clear task, and someone experienced running the table. Show up alone — you won't feel like it for long.

Aug14
Lab RoomDenver, CO6 seats left

Lab Room: The Lafayette Doe timeline

$25 · 3 hours
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Aug27
MasterclassDenver, CO

Masterclass: FOIA requests that actually get answered

$85 · 2 hours
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Sep03
Virtual BriefingOnline

Monthly virtual case briefing

Free for members
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Start with one case file. Stay for the club.

Tell us where to send it and you'll get the three-page case summary plus your invite to the private community. One email. No spam, no speculation, no naming names.