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Season 1, Episode 1: Look Again
28 September 2003A pretty, teen joins a rich clique at school. She draws the attention of several of the guys. At one of their parties, she was found beaten-to-death on the tennis court in 1976.
Season 1, Episode 2: Gleen
5 October 2003Detective Lilly is asked to investigate the murder of a fireman's first wife, who was going to testify against the man that exposed himself to her. One week before his trial, inside her detergent box of "Gleen" was planted a bomb that went off in her face. She was alive for 16 minutes after it went off and then died on her backyard patio. She is found by her young daughter at home at the time of the explosion. Her fireman husband has since remarried and he seems like a devoted husband to family, respected in the community, and revered as a hero at the fire station. But the daughter, set to marry is still very much haunted by the memories of her mother's. Marvelous sets recreates the time.
12 October 2003
19 October 2003The Alzheimer's inflicted widow of a slain church organist begins having flashbacks about her husband's murder, leading Lilly to reopen the case. She is disheveled and babbling wandering the streets. Once returned home it is discovered that years ago her husband, the victim, Mitchell Baye, was found stabbed, left in an alley in a seedy part of town, surrounded by pornography and crack vials. Mitchell's widow, Charlotte Baye, remembers that she was suspicious that he was cheating on her with a fellow church member. Charlotte's son, Ryan, who is also her keeper, asks Lilly to close the investigation, and Charlotte's estranged daughter, Tina, who hasn't seen Ryan who she was so close to in years, also wishes to keep the case closed.
Season 1, Episode 5: The Runner
26 October 2003
9 November 2003A petty crook, Ricky (Tim deZarn), hoping to get a reduced sentence, relates witnessing a young man washing blood out of his car the night a teen track runner was murdered. The young athlete, Paige Pratt (Summer Glau), was found shot, and her boyfriend Al Clarkson (Doug Kruse) was originally imprisoned for the crime.
16 November 2003The team investigates a 1964 case when a young college student was killed outside a gay bar.
Season 1, Episode 8: Fly Away
30 November 2003After two years in a coma, a mother awakes in the hospital. Unfortunately, Rosie hardly remembers the night she and her little daughter were thrown out of a window, killing the girl and injuring herself severely. She only recalls that her daughter Toya was wearing a butterfly costume ...
7 December 2003A man calls Detective Lilly Rush to confess that he murdered his grandmother in 1989 and buried her in the basement of his old house.
Season 1, Episode 10: Hitchhiker
21 December 2003
Season 1, Episode 11: Hubris
11 January 2004
Season 1, Episode 12: Glued
18 January 2004
Season 1, Episode 13: The Letter
25 January 2004
15 February 2004The team investigates a 1958 case where a dead 6-year-old boy wrapped inside a box was discovered in a field. The previous investigation developed no leads in determining the identity of the boy. However, new evidence suggests he may have lived at a nearby Catholic orphanage.
22 February 2004The team investigates a 1978 case where 22 people were killed in a fire at a popular disco after new evidence shows that one of the victims was shot before the fire.
Season 1, Episode 16: Volunteers
7 March 2004
14 March 2004
28 March 2004
4 April 2004A man is found shot to death in his driveway. The team re-open a 1992 murder of a young woman, a Democratic worker, who went missing after leaving a political event on Election night.
Season 1, Episode 20: Greed
18 April 2004
25 April 2004
Season 1, Episode 22: The Plan
2 May 2004
23 May 2004In 1986, a teenage girl was raped and stabbed to death in a popular lovers' lane. A man was arrested and convicted for the crime, based on circumstantial evidence. When the case is retried using modern DNA technology, he is proven innocent and Lilly and her team set out to find the real killer.
3 October 2004The triple murder of a couple running a restaurant and their son is reopened when it is revealed in court that the man who was originally charged with the crime was robbing a store at another location at the time of the murders.
10 October 2004The detectives reopen a World War II era case of a female factory worker who died at work from what was believed to be an accidental fall.
Season 2, Episode 3: Daniela
17 October 2004The case begins when an abused wife alleges that her husband killed a girl in 1979 and produces a supposed snuff reel showing him possibly committing the crime. The team reopens the assumed murder investigation where an unnamed girl's blood splattered clothes were discovered in a trash can, but no body was ever retrieved.
Season 2, Episode 4: The House
24 October 2004Outside a prison, the bones of an inmate who tried to escape during the broadcast of Johnny Cash's prison concert in 1968 are found in an old underground escape tunnel. Suspiciously, that inmate was supposedly killed inside the prison at another time...
31 October 2004
7 November 2004A young woman, with similar markings, is strangled to death near devil's pond. The team re-opens a 1990 murder of a 12-year-old prep school girl at the home of a troubled teen.
14 November 2004The team investigates the 1983 murder of an openly gay man who had been extremely active in attempting to stop the spread of AIDS. This included likely burning down a bathhouse where gay men were transmitting the disease and threatening to out closeted homosexuals who did not agree to petition congress for a solution. The early investigation also discovers that he was estranged from his prominent father who had kicked him out of his brother's wedding for bringing his partner along to the reception.
Season 2, Episode 8: Red Glare
21 November 2004The team investigates the murder of a school teacher in 1953 whose case wasn't very well investigated since he believed in integration.
28 November 2004
Season 2, Episode 10: Discretion
19 December 2004The team investigates the 2000 slaying of an up-and-coming Connecticut prosecutor who was about to try a high profile murder case. The early investigation discovers that prior to his death he seemed to have been heavily distracted by something.
9 January 2005
Season 2, Episode 12: Yo, Adrian
16 January 2005An underdog boxer dies from a knock-out on a fight that should have been called by the referee and the boxer's corner. The plot was deeper when the team re-investigates this cold case.
30 January 2005A citywide incentive "guns for shoes" program causes a weapon to turn up that had been used in a 1987 drive-by killing of a little girl in a park. The team attempts to discover who had possessed the gun through the many hands it had since crossed while also investigating who may have been the intended target.
Season 2, Episode 14: Revolution
20 February 2005
Season 2, Episode 15: Wishing
6 March 2005The early 1990's death on the railroad tracks of a mentally handicapped teenager is reopened. Drawings depicting the incident surface which indicate it may not have been an accident as originally believed.
Season 2, Episode 16: Revenge
13 March 2005
20 March 2005The team investigates the early 1980's murder of a surgeon's wife. The husband had been convicted of the murder and was thought to have committed it for insurance money. The couple was under financial pain as a result of the doctor being sued for malpractice after he accidentally caused the death of one of the family's best friends on his operating table. However, new evidence found on a dead junkie with a past connection to the victim causes the case to be reopened.
Season 2, Episode 18: Ravaged
27 March 2005Back in 1995, an alcoholic barmaid is found dead from a blow and exposure in freezing snow overnight outside the bar where she worked. She struggled to get her life on track including AA. There's plenty of potential culprits. This is a richly textured cold case and a good mystery.
3 April 2005Jeffries reopens a 1963 case in which he, as a child, found the body of a 16-year-old African American boy who had been planning to attend Martin Luther King's March on Washington.
Season 2, Episode 20: Kensington
24 April 2005
1 May 2005
8 May 2005
Season 2, Episode 23: The Woods
22 May 2005The discovery of nine human skulls leads Rush back to George Marks, the serial killer she was unable to incriminate months earlier, and who walked away a free man. As the detectives re-investigate his mother's murder from 1972, George is forced to emerge from hiding to face Rush again. This time, their very lives are at stake in their final showdown.
Season 3, Episode 1: Family
25 September 2005
2 October 2005
Season 3, Episode 3: Bad Night
9 October 2005
Season 3, Episode 4: Colors
16 October 2005
Season 3, Episode 5: Committed
23 October 2005
6 November 2005Brothers are being killed one by one as they grow to their teens. Flashbacks show how the family enjoyed Thanksgiving together until the killings started and the mother got addicted to drugs.
Season 3, Episode 7: Start-Up
13 November 2005
Season 3, Episode 8: Honor
20 November 2005The team investigates the murder of a former POW who was killed days after coming home from the Vietnam War.
27 November 2005The remains of a small girl are found under a bridge. The story goes back to the 60's and turns out the girl has a twin sister still alive. A sad family story begins to unravel.
18 December 2005Frank Dicenzio runs a small deli, until he is killed in 2001. Frank's employee, the immigrant Ricardo, is convicted and imprisoned. Ricardo's brother Paulo, however, asks Rush and Valens to reopen the case and prove Ricardo's innocence. The team finds suspects including 'Stump' Fanelli, the hoodlum friend of Frank's only son, Tommy; the unsavory Felix Darosa, who "helps" immigrants at high rates; and Ricardo himself. Meanwhile, Kat Miller joins the team, and Nick Vera's time spent caring for an abandoned baby seems to be not so onerous as he claims.
Season 3, Episode 11: 8 Years
8 January 2006The music of Bruce Springsteen provides the perfect accompaniment to this story of four young friends with modest dreams and the detours they take along the way. Clem was shot dead in 1988, and the Cold Case team follow up on his murder by tracking his friends' lives, forcing the survivors to review their life choices.
Season 3, Episode 12: Detention
15 January 2006When a note connected to a supposed suicide is found, the team re-opens a 1994 case of a 16-year-old high-school kid, who fell off the roof of the school building after having served detention. In 1994 the death was deemed a suicide, but the newly-found note indicates that the victim might have been fearing for his life.
Season 3, Episode 13: Debut
29 January 2006A mother's dream of seeing her daughter presented at a Debutante ball has tragic results. Being the daughter of a prominent astronaut as well as her mother's prodding succeeds in her invitation to be one of the Debutantes. But there is tension within the society girls as well as one of the men who has been harboring the known secret within the set that he is a 'Jew' which should have made him ineligible. (A sign of the times.) The Debutante is dead from a fall at the base of a staircase as her name was announced.
26 February 2006A sweet, wallflower who works at a bank is courted by a Lothario bank robber who informs her that his crew is robbing her bank. Her love for him is to motivate her to assist them with key knowledge they need for the bank safe. On the day of the robbery, with a change of mind, she pushes the silent alarm which is seen by her lover, sealing her fate. When the same bank is robbed by similarly masked gunman again, it looks like the bank was struck twice by the same robbers, though years apart. The team is convinced there must have been an 'inside man'.
Season 3, Episode 15: Sanctuary
12 March 2006When a drug dealer, Hector, is arrested, he recognizes Scotty Valens as Alvaro, who used to work as a driver for Hector. Detective Valens had been undercover in 1998, but his involvement with the young drug mule Ana, whose murder at the time went unsolved, makes the case uncomfortably personal for Valens, and raises questions for the rest of the team.
Season 3, Episode 16: One Night
19 March 2006On his way to the prom in 1980, Steve Jablonski gets a flat tire on his father's Cadillac, but that's just the start of his troubles. A stranger picks him up in the rain and has him write a will before being buried alive. In 2006, a man who won't give his name catches Det. Rush working late in the office, admits to the killing, and produces a shovel he says he buried Steve with. Working with few clues, the team hurry to save another young man they believe has likewise just been buried ... somewhere.
Season 3, Episode 17: Superstar
26 March 2006Young Andi Simmons was a talented tennis player when she won a "Battle of the Sexes" exhibition match against an older student back in 1973, but she was found strangled the next morning. Was the killer her opponent, who'd had his pride hurt by losing to a girl? Her jealous rival on the woman's team? The demanding coach or Andi's more demanding father? The detectives take a new look at the clues.
Season 3, Episode 18: Willkommen
2 April 2006Four years after the slaying, the Cold Case team investigates the murder of a cabbie-turned-actor who was shot to death outside the community theatre on opening night...
9 April 2006It was 1929 and vivacious, plucky Violet Polley was a promising singer and songwriter attempting to support herself. She draws the attention of affluent Nick Bartleby. Initially scoffing his attentions, his charm wins her over. The difficulty of the depression and its affect on his family's wealth had him overwhelmed. When Violet Polley shows up with the baby carriage of little Rose, their love child, at the family mansion requesting assistance or marriage. She and baby were cruelly rebuffed by him. Violet is bludgeoned to death within minutes outside the Bartleby's mansion and hidden in the bushes. No one was prosecuted. Also there at that time was a pretty theatrical lover of Nick's who had come around to being more cordial to Violet. Hearing the baby Rose's cries she rushed outside, seeing no one, snatched her and raised her.
16 April 2006
30 April 2006The "accidental" death of a woman newspaper columnist in 1943 is solved when old newspaper files indicate that maybe "Hey Lo" was murdered by a Nazi officer posing as a Dutch Jew.
Season 3, Episode 22: The River
7 May 2006The team looks into a previously thought to be solved 1984 murder of an emergency room doctor after a witness comes forward claiming to have seen the victim speaking with an unknown person shortly before his death. The investigation reveals that the doctor had a gambling addiction that was causing many problems.
Season 3, Episode 23: Joseph
21 May 2006Orlando is killed in 2005 in a house for chemical-addicted teens after he is beaten by a fellow patient. Joseph, the supervisor, catches Corey beating Orlando, but can't save Orlando. Two months later, right before Joseph is to testify against Corey, Joseph is found to have been killed at home by a shotgun blast through his door. The obvious suspect, Corey, was in jail at the time of the murder, so the detectives work to solve the open case, which involves good intentions, poor choices, and entanglements for Lilly.
Season 4, Episode 1: Rampage
24 September 2006A 1995 mall shooting spree, in which two teenagers killed and wounded several people before committing suicide, is reopened when it is found that there may be a third person involved.
1 October 2006
Season 4, Episode 3: Sandhogs
8 October 2006A mining cave-in was no accident that left John Donovan's lifeless body amongst the rubble. A tragic end to a young man and dashed hopes of his beloved.
Season 4, Episode 4: Baby Blues
15 October 2006Cold case investigator Kat Miller notices a photo of a closed case of Iris, the six month old baby girl with wet hair in the photo which made Kat question the cause of death as sudden infant death syndrome. The married couple were brought in for questioning as the team investigates whether the baby girl might have died from drowning. Both the husband and wife were feeling overwhelmed with the demands of their careers, struggling with raising a young son and the extra demands of such a young baby. Also investigated are two babysitters.
22 October 2006A married couple were gunned down in their car during their weekly run for a take-out but their young autistic son riding in the back seat is spared. The parents also left behind a teenage daughter. The couple were owners of a local tropical fish store, there didn't seem to be any motive. As the only witness, their autistic son's ability to remember events with numerical sequence was always the same regarding his parents. Detective Valens showed a compassion and patience to learn to communicate with the autistic son's abilities that brought forth the clues to unravel this baffling case.
Season 4, Episode 6: Static
29 October 2006The 1958 death of an influential and popular disc jockey is reopened when it becomes clear it was not a suicide as originally believed.
Season 4, Episode 7: The Key
5 November 2006The team reopens a 1979 murder of a schoolteacher when new evidence, including a key-chain belonging to a man with whom the victim had been having an affair, turns up in the wooded area where the body was found. The investigation soon discovers that the relationship was not kept a secret from anyone, including both of the spouses and their children.
Season 4, Episode 8: Fireflies
12 November 2006Bags of undelivered mail are discovered at the house of a mailman following his death. One of the undelivered items is a letter from an eight year old girl to her best friend, post-marked the day that she was abducted from her bedroom in 1975.
19 November 2006A handsome con-artist commits suicide as an awkward and overweight woman's dating-service tape, which eventually resulted in a relationship, plays on his VCR. The team then reopens her 1989 murder.
3 December 2006The murder of a cop in 1968 is reopened when a dying jailbird makes a deal with the police in order to get released earlier and tells them that he found drugs in the victim's car.
10 December 2006
Season 4, Episode 12: Knuckle Up
7 January 2007Lilly reopens the 2006 case of a college-bound man's disappearance.
Season 4, Episode 13: Blackout
14 January 2007The team investigates the 1996 death of an abrasive, wealthy woman during a power blackout at a family gathering in her former husband's home.
Season 4, Episode 14: 8:03 AM
28 January 2007
18 February 2007
4 March 2007Lilly and crew investigate the events at a now abandoned home for unwed mothers that led to the death of a patient and the adoption of her infant.
11 March 2007The skeleton is found of a sixteen year old who wanted to become a dancer, against the wishes of his grocer/father and wrestler/brother.
18 March 2007After seven years, the body of a missing woman who had been living in her car with her two daughters is discovered in that car at the bottom of a lake.
Season 4, Episode 19: Offender
25 March 2007A man forces Lilly's team to reinvestigate his son's murder-rape in 1987 by pushing a sex offender off a roof and promising to systematically kill one person a day until the case is solved.
1 April 2007When an anonymous confession to the murder of a 16-year old cheerleader is found in a modern art exhibit, the team reopens her case.
Season 4, Episode 21: Torn
8 April 2007Lilly and her team investigate their oldest case yet, the murder of a woman who was killed in 1919. They soon learn that she may have been murdered because of her activism for woman rights.
Season 4, Episode 22: Cargo
15 April 2007
29 April 2007The detectives discover that nine years ago a terminally ill man actually died of a morphine overdose before the disease could take him.
Season 4, Episode 24: Stalker
6 May 2007When a teenage girl wakes up from a coma, the team reopens the murder of her family. Soon, they find out that she was being stalked by a man calling himself "Romeo".
23 September 2007When a man who was convicted of child murder back in 1994 commits suicide, new evidence comes to light that he and his supposed accomplice, who is now serving a life term, may have been railroaded by an overzealous police detective for a crime they did not commit...
Season 5, Episode 2: That Woman
30 September 2007After a piece of clothing, that belonged to the murder victim, is found. The team re-opens a 1998 murder of a 15-year-old high school girl, who had a reputation for being promiscuous.
7 October 2007
14 October 2007The team investigate the case of Bingo Zohar, a young rock n'roll singer who was murdered in 1953, when the rock is rising.
21 October 2007The Detectives try and solve the case of a woman who died after being in a coma for 18 years.
Season 5, Episode 6: Wunderkind
28 October 2007
4 November 2007The discovery of human remains in the bottom of a well leads to the reinvestigation of the case of a housewife who went missing during Orson Welles' radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds".
11 November 2007
Season 5, Episode 9: Boy Crazy
18 November 2007Samantha Randall, prefers to go go by the name of 'Sam' and also prefers to dress like a boy. But in high school circa 1963 that just is not done. She runs afoul of both the guys and girls at school as well as teachers and administration. Rebellious and determined to be herself, she's labeled a lesbian. The truth is much more complicated, and the events that lead to her death was a part of the hysteria of the times regarding gender.
Season 5, Episode 10: Justice
25 November 2007Lily's team reinvestigates the 1982 murder of a man who was killed after being accused of date rape by several female college students.
