Cold Case Files - Season 1 Episode 8

"The Mark of Cain": Jim McCutcheon, a Florida landowner and business owner, hires James Drysdale whom he met at church. When McCutcheon disappears in 1994, Drysdale takes over; he is suspected of foul play, especially when his criminal record is discovered. He runs and is found in Tennessee four years later. Though they had no body, officers brought Drysdale back to Florida; they hoped he would confess and reveal the grave. Comparison is made with the Biblical story of Cain and Abel and its consequences. "Death on the Freeway": George Arthur, a sheriff's deputy who was killed on the freeway, is at first thought to be a drunk driver but the autopsy reveals he was shot. Street gangs are suspected. Fourteen years later, a DNA profile is obtained from a blood sample taken from the street. Arthur's wife points the detectives to a suspect they should look at, a man who had stalked her, a fellow officer. Obtaining a warrant, LA detectives converge on his house in Spokane, Washington to get a saliva sample. Bingo! BUT an arrest warrant will require a blood sample, and the suspect is on the lam. A TV crew makes a gruesome discovery in the woods behind his home.