In The Cold Dark Night is a 2020 American documentary film about the murder of Timothy Coggins in Spalding County, Georgia in 1983 and the Coggins family's subsequent 35-year quest for justice.
[3] The film premiered in the USA as a special event on 20/20 on July 17, 2020 and on Hulu immediately after.
The trials of the two men accused of murdering Timothy Coggins occurred in July and August, 2018.
In the Cold Dark Night received a grant from The Rogovy Foundation's Miller/Packan Documentary Film Fund for the summer of 2020.
[5] Executive Producer Wesley Lowery wrote a widely shared article about the story behind the film in GQ.