Cold Case Detective YouTube Stats

@coldcasedetective · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Cold Case Detective channel overview

Cold Case Detective (@coldcasedetective) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2019. It has 395K subscribers and 66M total views across 386 videos, an average of 171K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 60K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 34K views. Over the last 12 months, Cold Case Detective published 34 videos, and 5 of them (15%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Cold Case Detective gained 0 subscribers and 156K views, about 9.2K views a day.

How much does Cold Case Detective make?

Returbe estimates Cold Case Detective's YouTube ad revenue at $735 – $2.2K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $9, typically $5, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $5K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

Based on its last 52 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (75% of uploads), usually around 17:00 UTC. The last video went out on Sep 19, 2026.

Cold Case Detective's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Cold Case Detective's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• This Brother Did the Unthinkable to Solve Her Cold Case…349K views · Jan 7, 202610.2× typical views
• 28 Chilling Cold Cases, True Crime Tales & Murder Mysteries...1.2M views · Jun 1, 20227× typical views
• 4 Cold Cases Everyone Gave Up On That JUST Got Solved...215K views · Apr 1, 20266.3× typical views
• 3 Cold Cases Everyone Gave Up On That JUST Got Solved...205K views · Jan 14, 20266× typical views
• The Cold Case No One Could Solve…164K views · Nov 20, 20254.8× typical views
• One of the Strangest Cold Cases I’ve Ever Seen… (NON AI TRUE CRIME)104K views · May 27, 20263× typical views
• The Missing Person Cases That Keep Me Up at Night...82K views · Dec 4, 20252.4× typical views
• The Phone Calls That Finally Solved Cold Cases...69K views · Feb 4, 20262× typical views

Latest videos

10 of Cold Case Detective's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• They Went Missing… Then They Were Found | 3+ Hour True Crime Compilation67K views · Sep 19, 20261.9× typical views
• The 12-Year-Old Who Vanished — And Left Something Behind in Her Bed15K views · Jul 30, 20260.4× typical views
• America's Strangest Unsolved Murder - Stabbed in a Circle Around Her Heart (+ 2 More Cold Cases)15K views · Jul 15, 20260.4× typical views
• Police Gave Up... So Her Parents Took Over the Cold Case.25K views · Jul 1, 20260.7× typical views
• 3 Family Massacres That Were Never Solved...19K views · Jun 25, 20260.5× typical views
• One of the Strangest Cases Involving Law Enforcement I’ve Ever Seen…27K views · Jun 18, 20260.8× typical views
• The Cold Case That's IMPOSSIVLE To Solve... (NON AI TRUE CRIME)20K views · Jun 10, 20260.6× typical views
• His Pregnant Wife Vanished 22 Years Later (NON AI TRUE CRIME)17K views · Jun 3, 20260.5× typical views
• One of the Strangest Cold Cases I’ve Ever Seen… (NON AI TRUE CRIME)104K views · May 27, 20263× typical views
• These Missing Person Cases Keep Getting Stranger…42K views · May 21, 20261.2× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.1K videos from 499 channels in this niche. 8.1% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 21K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 17.9×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.2×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 8.5×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Shezi Vlogs (270K subs, best video 63.9×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Cold Case Detective or YouTube.