Plot Synopsis

Narrated by Keith David, COLD CASE FILES: MURDER IN THE BAYOU is a one-hour docuseries that features stories which the swamp threatened to swallow forever, but detectives managed to drag out into the light. These investigators, family, and friends know that no matter how deep in the muck it's buried, no sin stays secret forever. In the series opener, "A Trinity River Murder," when the supposed great-niece of Marilyn Monroe, Krystal Jean Baker, 13, is found dead beneath a bridge in Texas' Bayou Country, investigators are stumped. The quest to track down her killer will take investigators 14 years, and lead to a new law.