In August 1962 Marilyn Monroe died under mysterious circumstances. Police were not called until six hours after her body was discovered. There were indications the scene had been tampered with, and today there are no police files to be found. Some of the men playing shadow roles in this drama include Marilyn's psychiatrist, President John F. Kennedy, and Attorney General Bobby Kennedy.

On 1 November 1957, 24-year-old luxury call girl Rosemarie Nitribitt was found dead in a flat in Frankfurt's Stiftstraße. Her services were popular among male guests of the noble hotels and the moneyed aristocracy. Nitribitt's death hit like a bomb in the middle of the economic miracle of the 1950s, yet her murderer was never found. Cold Case reopens the case.