Post by boxman on Mar 21, 2006 3:57:16 GMT -5
This is a list of cases in chronological order, with synopsis mostly from tv.com:
www.tv.com/cold-case/show/16989/summary.html
Some dates acquired at TVGuide.com:
www.tvguide.com/tvshows/cold-case/100091
1919: 4.21 Torn
The Cold Case team re-opens their oldest case to date when they investigate the 1919 death of a young suffragette.
1929: 3.19 Beautiful Little Fool
Lilly re-opens the 1929 case of a woman found dead in a ravine on Christmas Day when the victim's great-granddaughter comes in asking for help. Meanwhile, Lilly's estranged mother shows up, hoping to re-connect with her daughter.
1932: 2.22 Best Friends
When a truck containing human bones is retrieved from the Delaware River, Rush and Valens link the truck to a Prohibition bootlegger and believe the remains may be those of a woman who went missing in 1932.
1938: 5.07 World's End
When the ramains of a housewife who made headlines for vanishing during the night of Orson Welles's 1938 broadcast of "War of the Worlds" are discovered in a well, the team attempts to solve her murder.
1939: 1.13 The Letter
Rush and Valens re-open the case of a 25-year-old black woman, who was murdered in 1939, after the woman's granddaughter comes forward with new information. The woman was assumed to be a prostitute murdered by a client, but letters written by the victim indicate that she was afraid of a milkman.
1943: 2.02 Factory Girls
On the eve of the 60-year reunion of women who worked in a weapons factory during World War II, Lilly is asked to re-investigate the death of Alice Miller, one of the worker girls. The death was deemed accidental at the time, but her friend pleads to Lilly to look closer into the case.
1944: 7.05 WASP
The team reopens the 1944 case of a female pilot who was part of a civilian program to aid the Air Force during World War II.
1945: 3.04 Colors
Det. Rush re-opens the 1945 case of a baseball player, bludgeoned to death with his own bat.
1945: 3.21 The Hen House
The 1945 case of a murdered newspaper reporter is reopened when new evidence suggests that the woman was thrown in front of a passing train by someone she knew.
1945: 5.11 Family 8108
The team attempts to solve the 1945 murder of a man who moved his family to Philadelphia following their release from a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II.
1948: 4.03 Sandhogs
When the skeletal remains of a man found in a subway tunnel are later identified as a man who disappeared in 1947, the cold case team re-opens the case.
1951: 6.05 Shore Leave
The team re-opens the 1951 case of a marine who went missing and never reported for duty after his shore leave.
1953: 2.08 Red Glare
The 1953 murder of a white school teacher, a communist sympathizer who was involved in civil-rights issues, is reopened after the victim's youngest son asks for it to be reinvestigated. The probe reveals that the slain man was killed on the same day that the Rosenbergs were executed and was set to testify the next day before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
1953: 5.04 Devil Music
The team re-opens the 1953 murder case of a talented 19-year-old aspiring rock 'n roll star after new evidence suggests that he was killed a distance from the alley of the blues club where his body was found.
1953: 6.09 Pin Up Girl
The team re-investigates the 1953 death of a murdered pin-up girl when an old photograph provides important new evidence.
1954: 3.05 Committed
In 1954, 9-year-old Otis Petrowski last saw his mother in a mental institution. Now over 50 years later, after the death of an elderly woman who had been using Otis' mother's identity, Det. Rush sets out to discover what happened to the boy's real mother.
1958: 1.14 Boy in the Box
The 1958 death of an unknown 6-year-old boy found in a field inside a cardboard box is reinvestigated after a small suitcase with the child's picture and his old cowboy hat is left in front of a church. The new probe reveals that the rowdy boy lived at a Catholic-run orphanage and was adopted two days before his suspicious demise.
1958: 4.06 Static
When the 1958 suicide of DJ Jimmy "The Hawk" Hawkins is discovered to have been a murder, Lilly and the team must find the truth of this public persona's private life by decoding a message hidden in his final broadcast.
1958: 6.19 Libertyville
The team re-investigates the 1958 case of a newlywed real estate developer when new evidence suggests his body might have been moved after he was killed.
1960: 6.11 Wings
The 1960 death of flight attendant who was trying to unionize her coworkers is reopened after her remains are found in the rubble of a demolished Philadelphia hotel.
1962: 5.17 Slipping
Lilly and Valens re-open a suicide case from 1962 after the victim's granddaughter provides evidence that her grandmother didn't write the suicide note.
1963: 2.19 Strange Fruit
The unsolved 1963 murder of a black teenager, whose body was discovered by the then-young Will Jeffries, is reopened.
1963: 5.09 Boy Crazy
The team hears from an alleged witness to a 1963 murder of a controversial gender-confused teenaged girl who had long been categorized as a suicide victim.
1963: 6.21 November 22nd
When the murder weapon from a 1963 case is unearthed, the team reopens the murder of a pool hustler who was shot the same day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
1964: 1.07 A Time to Hate
Lilly investigates the case of Daniel Holtz, a college baseball player who was found beaten to death in an alley behind a gay bar in 1964. Daniel's mother comes to Lilly in the hopes that his killer can be brought to justice before she dies. Lilly discovers the maltreatment gay victims received in the 60's, when her investigation discloses that it may have been a policeman's nightstick that made the lethal blows.
1964: 4.16 The Good-Bye Room
When an adopted woman tells Lilly that her birth mother was murdered the day after she was born, the cold case team enters the world of unwed mothers during the 1950s and 60s and the maternity homes where they were hidden.
1964: 6.03 Wednesday's Women
The team receives new evidence in a 1964 case, then thought to have been a hit-and-run. Now, a threatening letter addressed to the victim prompts Will and Kat to travel to Mississippi to re-investigate the death of a woman who was secretly involved in giving school supplies to black children.
1965: 3.09 A Perfect Day
When a fisherman finds evidence of a young girl's death washed up on a shore in New Jersey, Lilly re-opens the 1965 case of 4-year-old child who had a seemingly abusive mother.
1966: 7.01 The Crossing
The disappearance of a young woman aboard a magnificent ocean liner in 1966, long assumed to be a suicide, is re-investigated as a homicide when the victim's bones are recovered.
1967 6.14 The Brush Man
When remains are found at the bottom of a drained duck pond, the team reopens the 1967 murder of an enigmatic door-to-door salesman who was popular with the neighborhood.
1968: 2.04 The House
When human remains are found outside a former state prison, the team re-opens the 1968 case of a dead inmate, murdered on the night Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Concert was broadcast to prisons throughout the country. However, when it's revealed that the bones don't belong to the person everyone had assumed, the team must start the probe anew by first identifying who the victim was.
1968: 3.13 Debut
Lilly re-opens the 1968 case of an 18-year-old girl who died -- apparently accidentally -- at the night of her debutante ball. Now her mother comes forth with new evidence when a local art dealer is accused of murdering his wife in the same manner the girl died.
1968: 4.10 Forever Blue
Lilly and the other detectives are forced to examine their own views on homosexuality while investigating a case that takes them back to the tough, gritty and homophobic world of the police department in 1968.
1969: 1.16 Volunteers
When the remains of a young black man and a white woman are found under the foundation of a building, Rush and Valens discover that not only did the two go missing in 1969, but that they may have been killed professionally for their work in an underground abortion clinic.
1969: 2.14 Revolution
Rush and the team investigate the 1969 murder of a 19-year-old girl whose body was found in her boyfriend's apartment the day he fled to Canada to avoid fighting in Vietnam.
1969: 6.07 One Small Step
The team re-opens the case of a 12-year-old boy who died in 1969 when the retired detective who originally worked the case receives a new clue -- a toy rocket bearing the victim's name.
1969 7.20 Free Love
The team investigates the 1969 murder of a young soldier who was killed while planning to go to Canada rather than face his second tour in Vietnam.
1970: 7.04 Soul
The team reinvestigates the 1970 murder of a young virtuoso jazz musician who was keeping a devastating secret from his devoutly religious father.
1971: 7.14 Metamorphosis
The team reinvestigates the 1971 death of a young circus performer when new evidence indicates the accident that killed her was the result of deliberate sabotage.
1972: 2.23 The Woods
The 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 reinvestigate 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.
1973: 1.05 The Runner
After a drug addict brings in an audio tape she found on which a fatal shooting is heard, Lilly reopens a 1973 murder case involving the death of a 21-year-old rookie cop. The young officer was shot three times in the chest while responding to a call at a drug-infested housing project. Also on the tape are the victim's final words: "Runner! Runner! Runner!"
1972: 3.08 Honor
When a box filled with POW support bracelets is found in an abandoned drug den, Det. Rush re-investigates the 1972 shooting of Carl, a veteran of the Vietnam War.
1973: 3.17 Superstar
Lilly re-opens the 1973 case involving the murder of a young female tennis phenom who beat a top male player in a high-profile battle of the sexes match when a towel soaked with sodium nitrate is brought into the station.
1973: 6.01 Glory Days
In the season opener, Will's former high school football buddy discovers memorabilia that sheds a new light on the 1973 murder of a college football star. The 1973 investigation concluded that the victim was killed on Friday night, but new evidence suggests he might have still been alive the morning of the big championship game.
1974: 7.12 The Runaway Bunny
The team reopens the case of a private investigator who was murdered in 1974 while working to track down a teenage runaway.
1975: 4.08 Fireflies
When a postman is found dead in his home, several bags of undelivered mail is also discovered, including a letter postmarked 31 years ago and is not a major piece of evidence in the 1975 case of a missing girl.
1976: 1.01 Look Again
Kathryn Morris stars as Philadelphia homicide detective Lilly Rush, who investigates long-unsolved crimes, otherwise known as Cold Cases. In the pilot episode, Lilly investigates a 1976 case involving a teenage girl who was beaten to death on a tennis court during a party at a plush estate. A maid to a wealthy family, Bonita Jakarta (Lillian Hurst), claims she witnessed the murder of teenager Jill Shelby (Kate Mara). Now dying of cancer, the maid who remained silent, wants the killer brought to justice. Rush reopens the case, in which two brothers were originally suspected but not charged due to their powerful society family. Lilly interviews several witnesses: Jill's best friend Melanie (Lisa Waltz), and her boyfriend, Todd Whitley (D.W. Moffett) (who is now married to Melanie) and his troubled brother Eric (Michael Reilly Burke). The evidence points mostly to Eric, now a troubled alcoholic, but lawyer Todd has secrets of his own. Determined to uncover the truth, Lilly must force the Whitleys to confront their dark past despite resistance from everyone involved in the case, including the victim's mother (Elizabeth Franz).
1976: 2.12 Yo, Adrian
When a dying boxing referee makes a confession about a 1976 fight, the team re-opens the case in which an underdog fighter, arranged to fight against a much more qualified boxer, took a heavy beating in the match and died only moments afterwords.
1976 6.16 Jackals
The team reopens the case of a teenage girl who was murdered in 1976, and uncover evidence that she had become involved with a notorious motorcycle gang shortly before her death.
1977: 2.21 Creatures of the Night
A serial killer is to be released from a New Jersey prison based on a plea bargain made twenty-five years ago. Philadelphia homicide is asked to locate a potential crime committed while the killer was living in Philadelphia during the summer of 1977.
1978: 1.15 Disco Inferno
Construction workers discover a skull with bullet hole under the ruins of a disco club burned down in 1978. 22 people died in the fire. Rush and Valens come to the conclusion that the burning of the club was arson, meant to cover up a murder leaving them with not one, but 23 cold cases.
1978: 2.11 Blank Generation
The team re-opens the case of Matthew Adams, a teen-aged cult member who apparently committed suicide back in 1978, when his sister comes forth with new evidence about the de-programmer her family hired to rescue her brother.
1978: 3.03 Bad Night
The 1978 murder of a young man is re-opened after the victim's mother finds a letter suggesting that his death wasn't random.
1978: 6.04 Roller Girl
The team re-opens the 1978 case of a teenage roller skater who was found dead in a ravine.
1978 (and 2010): 7.18 The Last Drive In
When a serial killer who has been inactive since 1978 resurfaces and restarts his killing spree, the team must race to track him down before he disappears once again.
1979: 2.03 Daniela
Lilly and Valens reopen a presumed homicide from 1979 in which an unidentified victim's blood-drenched shoes, underwear and sheets were found in a trash bag, but no body. The investigation begins when a battered wife accuses her husband of murdering a girl in 1979 and brings in an amateur film from the time that supposedly shows him committing the crime.
1979: 4.07 The Key
Jefferie's rookie murder case in 1979 is re-opened when evidence is found close to where the body of a woman was originally located.
1980: 1.12 Glued
Det. Stillman asks Lilly to re-open a case he couldn't solve, wherein an 8-year-old boy, Tim Barnes, was murdered in 1980. The prime suspects included a catholic priest, three glue-sniffing teenagers, one elusive suspect, and the boy's own parents.
1980-88: 3.11 8 Years
Four close high school friends each went their separate ways in 1980. Eight years later, in 1988, one of them was murdered. The homicide team receives a tip about the murder, prompting a re-investigation of the case and an examination of the friends' lives, hopes and dreams after high school.
1980 (and 2006): 3.16 One Night
Lilly and the cold case team will have to decode the clues given by a twisted killer in order to save the life of a young boy who has been left to die alone. But first they must find the boy and for that they need to dig a little deeper into their own pasts.
1980: 7.10 Iced
The team reopens the 1980 case of an ice hockey player who was murdered on his team's ice rink on the same night the U.S. hockey team defeated the Soviet Union at the Winter Olympics.
1981: 1.06 Love Conquers Al
A petty crook, Ricky, 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, was found shot, and her boyfriend Al Clarkson was originally imprisoned for the crime.
1981: 4.15 Blood on the Tracks
When an accidental fire is found to have been caused by a bomb, Lilly and the team re-open the 1981 case involving the murder of a yuppie couple.
1981: 6.06 The Dealer
When a body is discovered in the trunk of a car, the team re-opens the 1981 case of a missing single mother who used to work at a car dealership.
1982: 2.17 Schadenfreude
A man claims that he was wrongfully convicted of the 1982 murder of his rich wife. The case is reopened when the victim's rare ring is discovered worn by a recently deceased junkie.
1982: 4.04 Baby Blues
Lilly re-investigates a 1982 case where a newborn baby died under suspicious circumstances of what was reported as SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome).
1982: 5.10 Justice
While investigating the 1982 murder of a popular college student, the team uncovers that the college staff and police ignored co-eds who accused him of date rape before his death.
1982: 7.13 Bombers
The team reinvestigates the 1982 death of a talented graffiti artist who was killed by a fatal overdose of toxic paint.
1983: 1.02 Gleen
The fiancé of a fireman asks Lilly to help prove that a convicted felon, about to be paroled on an unrelated crime, is responsible for the murder of the fireman’s first wife.
1983: 2.07 It's Raining Men
An HIV-positive gay man asks Rush and Valens to re-investigate the case of his dead partner who died of strangulation in 1983. Not only was the victim outspoken in his views about AIDS education within the 1980's secretive gay community, he was also the member of a very prominent family, disowned by his father for his sexual orientation.
1983: 7.08 Chinatown
The team reopens one of Stillman's old cases from 1983, that of a Chinese-American teenager whose murder may have been connected to the killing of his girlfriend by Chinese gang members three months before his own death.
1984: 3.22 The River
Lilly and the team re-open the 1984 case involving the shooting of a successful ER doctor when a new witness steps forward.
1984: 4.17 Shuffle, Ball Change
When the body of a missing teenager is found in a dumpster, the cold case team enters the macho blue-collar world of Kensington in the 80s and discovers the taboo secret that got the boy killed.
1985: 1.20 Greed
The team reopens the 1985 case of a wealthy stock broker. At the time it was deemed that Charles Danville was killed when someone attempted to steal his car, but new evidence suggests that he may, in fact, have been murdered.
1985: 2.09 Mind Hunters
The headless torso of a woman who disappeared in 1985, on the same day she filed domestic-abuse charges against her husband, is found by hikers in a wildlife preserve. The investigation quickly leads to the grisly discovery of 8 more decapitated bodies, the victims of a serial killer.
1985: 2.20 Kensington
"Kensington" --The murder case of a young mill worker is re-opened when Rush learns that a recent parolee admitted to stealing money off the victim's body.
1986: 1.23 Lover's Lane
When DNA evidence reveals that a wrong man was convicted for killing 15-year-old Eve Kendall back in 1986, the team re-opens her case in an attempt to find the real killer.
1986: 7.06 Dead Heat
When the remains of a jockey who had been missing since 1986 are uncovered in an old horse grave, the team reexamines the circumstances of his disappearance.
1986: 7.16 One Fall
The team reinvestigates the 1986 murder of a pro wrestler.
1987: 1.17 The Lost Soul of Herman Lester
When the son of a murdered high-school basketball star receives a death threat, Rush and Valens reopen the 1987 case of Herman Lester who was stabbed to death only hours after leading his team to win the state championship.
1987: 2.13 Time to Crime
After a murder weapon connected to the 1987 drive-by shooting of a little girl turns up, Det. Rush and her team re-open the case. The team slowly tracks back the gun's previous owners until the shocking original owner is finally revealed.
1987: 4.19 Offender
A man claims responsibility for pushing a sex offender off a building and vows to systematically kill another person every day until the cold case team can solve his son's 20-year-old murder.
1988: 3.01 Family
When a young girl is contacted by a man claiming to be her father, Det. Rush and her team reopen a 1988 case of a teenaged boy, killed on the same night the girl was born.
1988: 6.13 Breaking News
The 1988 murder of a Philadelphia news anchor is investigated after it is determined she was killed before she was able to report on a scandal involving a local factory's deadly working conditions.
1989: 1.09 Sherry Darlin'
Lilly gets an anonymous phone call from a man claiming he killed an elderly woman back in 1989 and buried her body in the basement of a house. When Lilly checks the dwelling, a body is recovered, but the alleged murderer refuses to identify himself.
1989: 1.21 Maternal Instincts
The 1989 case of a woman murdered in front of her 3-year-old son is re-opened. A psychologist asks Det. Rush to look into the case again when the son, now a 17-year-old teen, suffers from intense nightmares and troubled behavior.
1989: 4.09 Lonely Hearts
The team re-investigates the unsolved 1989 murder of a woman shot in an alley when the victim's video dating tape shows up in a dead man's apartment.
1989: 5.05 Thick As Thieves
The team re-open the case of an unidentified woman who dies after being in a coma since she was shot in 1989.
1989: 6.08 Triple Threat
The team re-opens the 1989 murder of a young Russian opera star who defected to the United States. She and her family sought asylum at the police station where Nick Vera was stationed when he joined the force.
1989: 7.21 Almost Paradise
The team reopens the 1989 case of a high-school girl who was killed in a hit-and-run accident shortly after being crowned prom queen.
1990: 1.04 Churchgoing People
Lilly re-investigates the case of a murdered church organist, when his Alzheimer's-stricken widow begins having flashbacks of the night in question. Lilly's investigation has both Mitchell's son, Ryan, and daughter, Tina, demanding Lilly close the search.
1990: 2.06 The Sleepover
Lilly reopens a 1990 murder case, in which a prep-school girl was found dead in a local swimming hole, after a present-day victim with similar markings is discovered at the same place.
1991: 2.05 Who's Your Daddy
Det. Rush investigates the 1991 double murder of married illegal immigrants from Cambodia who were shot to death in their apartment and found by their 6-year old daughter.
1991: 6.02 True Calling
The team re-opens the 1991 case of a young inner-city schoolteacher whose death was originally ruled as a carjacking-gone-wrong.
1991: 7.07 Read Between The Lines
The team reinvestigates the 1991 murder of a 14-year-old aspiring rapper who was in foster care with her younger sister at the time of her death.
1992: 1.19 Late Returns
The shooting death of a man in his driveway is connected to the unsolved 1992 murder of a Democratic campaign worker whose lifeless body was thrown into a nearby river on election night.
1993: 2.15 Wishing
When someone leaves drawings recreating an accident that killed a mentally disabled teen, it points the finger at the incident being murder.
1993: 7.22 Shattered
While Rush and Valens leave Philadelphia to find Rush's missing sister, Jeffries works to solve the 1993 murder of a teenage girl, hoping to fulfill the promise he made to the girl's parents to find the killer.
1994: 3.12 Detention
When a note connected to a supposed suicide is found, the team re-opens the 1994 case of a high-school kid who fell from the roof of the school building after having served detention.
1994: 3.20 Death Penalty: Final Appeal
The 1994 case of a raped and murdered 16-year-old girl is re-opened when Det. Jeffries gets a call from a prisoner on death-row -- scheduled to be executed in just three days.
1994: 5.01 Thrill Kill
Lilly returns to work and persuades the team to re-open the 1994 case of three fatally beaten boys, which may have resulted in the wrongful incarceration of two teen outcasts.
1995: 1.11 Hubris
A college professor, who lost everything − his career, his family, his reputation − after being suspected of murdering one of his female students in 1995, offers new information regarding the case that he hopes will clear his name.
1995: 2.18 Ravaged
A woman, who was romantically involved with Nick Vera in high school, claims that members of a fraternity might have been involved in her alcoholic sister's death in 1995.
1995: 4.01 Rampage
The 1995 case involving two teenage boys who committed suicide after going on a murderous shooting spree is re-opened when evidence surfaces that there may have been a third shooter.
1995: 7.02 Hood Rats
The team re-examines the 1995 murder of a homeless 17-year-old skateboarding prodigy who was trying to earn enough money to get himself off the streets.
1996: 4.13 Blackout
Lilly and Scotty re-open the 1996 case involving the supposed accidental death of a matriarch of a wealthy family when new evidence surfaces that suggests murder.
1997: 1.10 The Hitchhiker
Rush and Valens investigate the case of a cold-blooded killer who shot a young man trying to hitchhike his way home to Philly from Atlanta.
1997: 4.20 Stand Up and Holler
When an anonymous confession to the killing of a 16-year-old girl is found in a modern art exhibit, the cold case team is forced to enter the complicated, emotinoal and vicious world of high school cheerleading.
1997: 5.16 Bad Reputation
The team investigates the 1997 murder of an ex-con who was thought to be a fugitive until Lilly is handed newly found evidence to the contrary.
1998(?): 1.03 Our Boy is Back
A serial rapist sends a letter to the squad announcing his return to Philadelphia after five years and his plan to strike again. Lilly's best hope of catching the rapist comes from a victim who is able to provide a composite sketch.
1998: 2.16 Revenge
Lt. Stillman's priest informs him of a long ago confession where a man confessed being involved in the 1998 kidnapping of a 9-year old boy. The case is reopened with this new lead, and it turns out the truth is closer to home.
1998: 3.15 Sanctuary
The 1998 case of a female drug smuggler is re-opened. The woman was involved with Scotty at the time he was working undercover on a high-profile drug case, and he has been keeping it a secret from the team for all these years.
1998: 4.23 The Good Death
When a nurse confesses to the mercy killings of six patients, the cold case detectives re-open the 1998 case involving a terminally ill man who died months before he was expected to.
1998: 5.02 That Woman
Lilly and the team re-open the 1998 case of a fatally beaten 15-year-old girl who had a reputation in high school for being promiscuous.
1998-2008: 5.12 Sabotage
The team tries to catch a serial bomber before he succeeds in harming a man who was the intended target of his most recent bombing.
1998: 5.13 Spiders
The team re-opens the 1998 case of a murdered teenaged girl after her father is arrested for savagely beating the teen's 3-year-old step -sister.
1999: 1.18 Resolutions
A drunken driver's hit-and-run confession leads the detectives to discover that foul play -- not an accident -- may have killed the victim.
1999: 1.22 The Plan
The 1999 drowning death of a military academy's swim coach, which was originally ruled as accidental, is reinvestigated after the homicide division receives a note that suggests it was murder. Back at the office, Valens searches for Elisa after she goes missing.
1999-2005: 3.06 Saving Patrick Bubley
When a mother of five loses her fourth son to gang violence, Lilly sets out the save the youngest, reopening one of her first cases on the homicide squad.
1999: 3.07 Start-Up
Lilly re-opens the 1999 case of a young, healthy woman who nevertheless died of a heart attack. In the late 1990's, she was briefly an Internet millionaire, but due to bad business decisions, her dot.com company eventually went bust.
1999: 4.18 A Dollar, A Dream
When the body of a woman is found at the bottom of a river in her family station wagon, the cold case detectives realize that it wasn't just the family car, it was the family's home.
1999: 6.20 Stealing Home
The 1999 murder of a former Cuban baseball star who escaped to the U.S. to pursue a major-league career is reinvestigated.
1999: 7.09 Forensics
The team investigates the 1999 death of a young man, a member of a prep school debate team, whose death had been considered a suicide.
2000: 2.10 Discretion
The team re-opens the 2000 case of a prominent Puerto Rican assistant district attorney when rumors about his connection to a large amount of money gone missing at the time of his death start to circulate. However, his widow insists that the claims are not true.
2000: 3.14 Dog Day Afternoons
The case of a female bank teller shot to death in her work in 2000 is reopened when the same bank is robbed again by perpetrators wearing identical masks and equipped with identical weapons as six years earlier.
2000: 4.11 The Red and the Blue
When Jefferies' former partner comes to him armed with new information regarding the murder of a male singer in 2000, the case is re-opened and requires Lilly and a reluctant Scotty to travel down south.
2001: 1.08 Fly Away
When a young woman, Rosie, wakes up from a coma, Lilly re-opens the fall in which her 6-year-old daughter Toya died.
2001: 3.10 Frank's Best
The team re-opens the 2001 case of a robbed and murdered deli owner when the brother of the man convicted of the crime brings forth new evidence, suggesting the man may have been wrongfully accused.
2002: 3.18 Willkommen
Lilly and Jefferies re-open the 2002 case involving a local cabaret singer when a theater owner notices a .38 revolver lodged in a piece of set furniture.
2002: 4.14 8:03AM
Miller re-opens a 2002 case from her undercover days involving the labyrinth world of methamphetamine addiction to find the link between two murders that occurred at the exact same time.
2002: 5.06 Wunderkind
The team re-opens the 1992 case of a 14-year-old math genius who was shot after his 16-year-old half-brother exploited the boy's knack for counting cards and cracking safes.
2003: 2.01 The Badlands
Lilly returns to her last case before joining the Cold Case Squad as she re-investigates the brutal triple homicide of a restaurant owner and his family, murdered in the restaurant bathroom in 2003.
2003: 4.05 Saving Sammy
Lilly mixes business with pleasure when her boyfriend asks her to re-open the 2003 case involving an autistic boy who witnessed his parents' murder.
2003: 5.08 It Takes A Village
Lilly and the team hunt for a serial killer after a boy's body is discovered in a storage unit.
2004: 3.02 The Promise
Lilly re-opens the case of young girl, an overweight college freshman named Laurie, who died in a fraternity house fire in 2004. The fire was deemed accidental at the time, but a cell phone photo e-mailed from the girl's phone just moments before her death prompts a closer examination.
2004: 4.02 The War At Home
The 2004 case involving the disappearance of a female Iraqi war vet is re-opened when her high-tech titanium arm is found in the river.
2004: 6.18 Mind Games
The team reopen the 2004 case of a psychiatrist who died in a suspicious fire, and begin to suspect one of her former patients was the one that started the blaze.
2004: 7.03 Jurisprudence
The 2004 case of a teenager who died after being wrongfully imprisoned in a juvenile detention center is reopened.
2005: 5.18 Ghost of My Child
Lilly and her team investigate when a former junkie claims she just saw her child in a park, even though he died in a fire in 2005.
2005: 3.23 Joseph
When a popular drug counselor's debit card is used one year after his murder, Lilly and the team re-open the 2005 case.
2005: 4.22 Cargo
The cold case detectives delve into the world of the Russian mob when they re-open the 2005 case involving the murder of a longshoreman who innocently got in the middle of a profitable human trafficking ring.
2005: 6.10 Street Money
The team re-opens the 2005 murder of a young and promising African-American politician who was determined to get rid of drug dealers in lower-class neighborhoods.
2005: 6:22 & 6:23 The Long Blue Line/Into The Blue
The team reopens the case of the first ever female cadet at a local military academy, who was murdered in 2005.
2005: 7.11 The Good Soldier
The team investigates the 2005 murder of an Army recruiter, who was killed two days before his deployment to Iraq, and uncover evidence that the victim may have been involved in a high-profile jewelry heist.
2006: 4.12 Knuckle Up
A video clip that shows a promising college bound young man who disappeared in 2006, involved in the underground subculture of bare-knuckle brawling is found on the internet.
2006: 5.03 Running Around
The team re-opens the year-old case of an amish teen-aged girl who was murdered weeks after leaving home for Philadelphia to experience the outside world as a part of Rumspringa, an amish right of passage.
2006: 4.24 Stalker
A hostage situation takes over the Philadelphia Police Department and the cold case team must negotiate quickly before they lose one of their own.
2006: 5.14 Andy in C-Minor
After new evidence confirms that a deaf teenager was murdered, the team sets out to find his body and killer.
2006: 7.17 Flashover
The team reopens a fatal 2006 arson case when new evidence indicates that the original suspect may have been wrongly convicted.
2007: 5.15 The Road
Lilly and Valens head to West Virginia to retrieve a primary suspect in the 2007 case of a presumed-murdered woman who was abducted steps away from her engagement party.
2007: 6.12 Lotto Fever
The detectives reinvestigate the 2007 murder of an auto mechanic whose lottery winnings earned him a number of fair-weather friends when it is found that his bank account had recently been accessed.
2008: 6.15 Witness Protection
The team opens the 2008 case of a man who was murdered while in the witness protection program when his widow comes to the police asking for help in looking for their missing son.
2008: 7.15 Two Weddings
The team investigates the 2008 death of a young businessman who was killed the night before his wedding.
2009 6.17 Officer Down
When Jeffries is wounded and another man is killed during a robbery at a convenience store, the rest of the team must race against time to track down the shooter before the trail goes cold.
2010 7.19 Bullet
The team's investigation of the re-emerged serial killer continues as they look further into his past in the hopes of predicting his next move.
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1919: 4.21 Torn
The Cold Case team re-opens their oldest case to date when they investigate the 1919 death of a young suffragette.
1929: 3.19 Beautiful Little Fool
Lilly re-opens the 1929 case of a woman found dead in a ravine on Christmas Day when the victim's great-granddaughter comes in asking for help. Meanwhile, Lilly's estranged mother shows up, hoping to re-connect with her daughter.
1932: 2.22 Best Friends
When a truck containing human bones is retrieved from the Delaware River, Rush and Valens link the truck to a Prohibition bootlegger and believe the remains may be those of a woman who went missing in 1932.
1938: 5.07 World's End
When the ramains of a housewife who made headlines for vanishing during the night of Orson Welles's 1938 broadcast of "War of the Worlds" are discovered in a well, the team attempts to solve her murder.
1939: 1.13 The Letter
Rush and Valens re-open the case of a 25-year-old black woman, who was murdered in 1939, after the woman's granddaughter comes forward with new information. The woman was assumed to be a prostitute murdered by a client, but letters written by the victim indicate that she was afraid of a milkman.
1943: 2.02 Factory Girls
On the eve of the 60-year reunion of women who worked in a weapons factory during World War II, Lilly is asked to re-investigate the death of Alice Miller, one of the worker girls. The death was deemed accidental at the time, but her friend pleads to Lilly to look closer into the case.
1944: 7.05 WASP
The team reopens the 1944 case of a female pilot who was part of a civilian program to aid the Air Force during World War II.
1945: 3.04 Colors
Det. Rush re-opens the 1945 case of a baseball player, bludgeoned to death with his own bat.
1945: 3.21 The Hen House
The 1945 case of a murdered newspaper reporter is reopened when new evidence suggests that the woman was thrown in front of a passing train by someone she knew.
1945: 5.11 Family 8108
The team attempts to solve the 1945 murder of a man who moved his family to Philadelphia following their release from a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II.
1948: 4.03 Sandhogs
When the skeletal remains of a man found in a subway tunnel are later identified as a man who disappeared in 1947, the cold case team re-opens the case.
1951: 6.05 Shore Leave
The team re-opens the 1951 case of a marine who went missing and never reported for duty after his shore leave.
1953: 2.08 Red Glare
The 1953 murder of a white school teacher, a communist sympathizer who was involved in civil-rights issues, is reopened after the victim's youngest son asks for it to be reinvestigated. The probe reveals that the slain man was killed on the same day that the Rosenbergs were executed and was set to testify the next day before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
1953: 5.04 Devil Music
The team re-opens the 1953 murder case of a talented 19-year-old aspiring rock 'n roll star after new evidence suggests that he was killed a distance from the alley of the blues club where his body was found.
1953: 6.09 Pin Up Girl
The team re-investigates the 1953 death of a murdered pin-up girl when an old photograph provides important new evidence.
1954: 3.05 Committed
In 1954, 9-year-old Otis Petrowski last saw his mother in a mental institution. Now over 50 years later, after the death of an elderly woman who had been using Otis' mother's identity, Det. Rush sets out to discover what happened to the boy's real mother.
1958: 1.14 Boy in the Box
The 1958 death of an unknown 6-year-old boy found in a field inside a cardboard box is reinvestigated after a small suitcase with the child's picture and his old cowboy hat is left in front of a church. The new probe reveals that the rowdy boy lived at a Catholic-run orphanage and was adopted two days before his suspicious demise.
1958: 4.06 Static
When the 1958 suicide of DJ Jimmy "The Hawk" Hawkins is discovered to have been a murder, Lilly and the team must find the truth of this public persona's private life by decoding a message hidden in his final broadcast.
1958: 6.19 Libertyville
The team re-investigates the 1958 case of a newlywed real estate developer when new evidence suggests his body might have been moved after he was killed.
1960: 6.11 Wings
The 1960 death of flight attendant who was trying to unionize her coworkers is reopened after her remains are found in the rubble of a demolished Philadelphia hotel.
1962: 5.17 Slipping
Lilly and Valens re-open a suicide case from 1962 after the victim's granddaughter provides evidence that her grandmother didn't write the suicide note.
1963: 2.19 Strange Fruit
The unsolved 1963 murder of a black teenager, whose body was discovered by the then-young Will Jeffries, is reopened.
1963: 5.09 Boy Crazy
The team hears from an alleged witness to a 1963 murder of a controversial gender-confused teenaged girl who had long been categorized as a suicide victim.
1963: 6.21 November 22nd
When the murder weapon from a 1963 case is unearthed, the team reopens the murder of a pool hustler who was shot the same day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
1964: 1.07 A Time to Hate
Lilly investigates the case of Daniel Holtz, a college baseball player who was found beaten to death in an alley behind a gay bar in 1964. Daniel's mother comes to Lilly in the hopes that his killer can be brought to justice before she dies. Lilly discovers the maltreatment gay victims received in the 60's, when her investigation discloses that it may have been a policeman's nightstick that made the lethal blows.
1964: 4.16 The Good-Bye Room
When an adopted woman tells Lilly that her birth mother was murdered the day after she was born, the cold case team enters the world of unwed mothers during the 1950s and 60s and the maternity homes where they were hidden.
1964: 6.03 Wednesday's Women
The team receives new evidence in a 1964 case, then thought to have been a hit-and-run. Now, a threatening letter addressed to the victim prompts Will and Kat to travel to Mississippi to re-investigate the death of a woman who was secretly involved in giving school supplies to black children.
1965: 3.09 A Perfect Day
When a fisherman finds evidence of a young girl's death washed up on a shore in New Jersey, Lilly re-opens the 1965 case of 4-year-old child who had a seemingly abusive mother.
1966: 7.01 The Crossing
The disappearance of a young woman aboard a magnificent ocean liner in 1966, long assumed to be a suicide, is re-investigated as a homicide when the victim's bones are recovered.
1967 6.14 The Brush Man
When remains are found at the bottom of a drained duck pond, the team reopens the 1967 murder of an enigmatic door-to-door salesman who was popular with the neighborhood.
1968: 2.04 The House
When human remains are found outside a former state prison, the team re-opens the 1968 case of a dead inmate, murdered on the night Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Concert was broadcast to prisons throughout the country. However, when it's revealed that the bones don't belong to the person everyone had assumed, the team must start the probe anew by first identifying who the victim was.
1968: 3.13 Debut
Lilly re-opens the 1968 case of an 18-year-old girl who died -- apparently accidentally -- at the night of her debutante ball. Now her mother comes forth with new evidence when a local art dealer is accused of murdering his wife in the same manner the girl died.
1968: 4.10 Forever Blue
Lilly and the other detectives are forced to examine their own views on homosexuality while investigating a case that takes them back to the tough, gritty and homophobic world of the police department in 1968.
1969: 1.16 Volunteers
When the remains of a young black man and a white woman are found under the foundation of a building, Rush and Valens discover that not only did the two go missing in 1969, but that they may have been killed professionally for their work in an underground abortion clinic.
1969: 2.14 Revolution
Rush and the team investigate the 1969 murder of a 19-year-old girl whose body was found in her boyfriend's apartment the day he fled to Canada to avoid fighting in Vietnam.
1969: 6.07 One Small Step
The team re-opens the case of a 12-year-old boy who died in 1969 when the retired detective who originally worked the case receives a new clue -- a toy rocket bearing the victim's name.
1969 7.20 Free Love
The team investigates the 1969 murder of a young soldier who was killed while planning to go to Canada rather than face his second tour in Vietnam.
1970: 7.04 Soul
The team reinvestigates the 1970 murder of a young virtuoso jazz musician who was keeping a devastating secret from his devoutly religious father.
1971: 7.14 Metamorphosis
The team reinvestigates the 1971 death of a young circus performer when new evidence indicates the accident that killed her was the result of deliberate sabotage.
1972: 2.23 The Woods
The 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 reinvestigate 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.
1973: 1.05 The Runner
After a drug addict brings in an audio tape she found on which a fatal shooting is heard, Lilly reopens a 1973 murder case involving the death of a 21-year-old rookie cop. The young officer was shot three times in the chest while responding to a call at a drug-infested housing project. Also on the tape are the victim's final words: "Runner! Runner! Runner!"
1972: 3.08 Honor
When a box filled with POW support bracelets is found in an abandoned drug den, Det. Rush re-investigates the 1972 shooting of Carl, a veteran of the Vietnam War.
1973: 3.17 Superstar
Lilly re-opens the 1973 case involving the murder of a young female tennis phenom who beat a top male player in a high-profile battle of the sexes match when a towel soaked with sodium nitrate is brought into the station.
1973: 6.01 Glory Days
In the season opener, Will's former high school football buddy discovers memorabilia that sheds a new light on the 1973 murder of a college football star. The 1973 investigation concluded that the victim was killed on Friday night, but new evidence suggests he might have still been alive the morning of the big championship game.
1974: 7.12 The Runaway Bunny
The team reopens the case of a private investigator who was murdered in 1974 while working to track down a teenage runaway.
1975: 4.08 Fireflies
When a postman is found dead in his home, several bags of undelivered mail is also discovered, including a letter postmarked 31 years ago and is not a major piece of evidence in the 1975 case of a missing girl.
1976: 1.01 Look Again
Kathryn Morris stars as Philadelphia homicide detective Lilly Rush, who investigates long-unsolved crimes, otherwise known as Cold Cases. In the pilot episode, Lilly investigates a 1976 case involving a teenage girl who was beaten to death on a tennis court during a party at a plush estate. A maid to a wealthy family, Bonita Jakarta (Lillian Hurst), claims she witnessed the murder of teenager Jill Shelby (Kate Mara). Now dying of cancer, the maid who remained silent, wants the killer brought to justice. Rush reopens the case, in which two brothers were originally suspected but not charged due to their powerful society family. Lilly interviews several witnesses: Jill's best friend Melanie (Lisa Waltz), and her boyfriend, Todd Whitley (D.W. Moffett) (who is now married to Melanie) and his troubled brother Eric (Michael Reilly Burke). The evidence points mostly to Eric, now a troubled alcoholic, but lawyer Todd has secrets of his own. Determined to uncover the truth, Lilly must force the Whitleys to confront their dark past despite resistance from everyone involved in the case, including the victim's mother (Elizabeth Franz).
1976: 2.12 Yo, Adrian
When a dying boxing referee makes a confession about a 1976 fight, the team re-opens the case in which an underdog fighter, arranged to fight against a much more qualified boxer, took a heavy beating in the match and died only moments afterwords.
1976 6.16 Jackals
The team reopens the case of a teenage girl who was murdered in 1976, and uncover evidence that she had become involved with a notorious motorcycle gang shortly before her death.
1977: 2.21 Creatures of the Night
A serial killer is to be released from a New Jersey prison based on a plea bargain made twenty-five years ago. Philadelphia homicide is asked to locate a potential crime committed while the killer was living in Philadelphia during the summer of 1977.
1978: 1.15 Disco Inferno
Construction workers discover a skull with bullet hole under the ruins of a disco club burned down in 1978. 22 people died in the fire. Rush and Valens come to the conclusion that the burning of the club was arson, meant to cover up a murder leaving them with not one, but 23 cold cases.
1978: 2.11 Blank Generation
The team re-opens the case of Matthew Adams, a teen-aged cult member who apparently committed suicide back in 1978, when his sister comes forth with new evidence about the de-programmer her family hired to rescue her brother.
1978: 3.03 Bad Night
The 1978 murder of a young man is re-opened after the victim's mother finds a letter suggesting that his death wasn't random.
1978: 6.04 Roller Girl
The team re-opens the 1978 case of a teenage roller skater who was found dead in a ravine.
1978 (and 2010): 7.18 The Last Drive In
When a serial killer who has been inactive since 1978 resurfaces and restarts his killing spree, the team must race to track him down before he disappears once again.
1979: 2.03 Daniela
Lilly and Valens reopen a presumed homicide from 1979 in which an unidentified victim's blood-drenched shoes, underwear and sheets were found in a trash bag, but no body. The investigation begins when a battered wife accuses her husband of murdering a girl in 1979 and brings in an amateur film from the time that supposedly shows him committing the crime.
1979: 4.07 The Key
Jefferie's rookie murder case in 1979 is re-opened when evidence is found close to where the body of a woman was originally located.
1980: 1.12 Glued
Det. Stillman asks Lilly to re-open a case he couldn't solve, wherein an 8-year-old boy, Tim Barnes, was murdered in 1980. The prime suspects included a catholic priest, three glue-sniffing teenagers, one elusive suspect, and the boy's own parents.
1980-88: 3.11 8 Years
Four close high school friends each went their separate ways in 1980. Eight years later, in 1988, one of them was murdered. The homicide team receives a tip about the murder, prompting a re-investigation of the case and an examination of the friends' lives, hopes and dreams after high school.
1980 (and 2006): 3.16 One Night
Lilly and the cold case team will have to decode the clues given by a twisted killer in order to save the life of a young boy who has been left to die alone. But first they must find the boy and for that they need to dig a little deeper into their own pasts.
1980: 7.10 Iced
The team reopens the 1980 case of an ice hockey player who was murdered on his team's ice rink on the same night the U.S. hockey team defeated the Soviet Union at the Winter Olympics.
1981: 1.06 Love Conquers Al
A petty crook, Ricky, 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, was found shot, and her boyfriend Al Clarkson was originally imprisoned for the crime.
1981: 4.15 Blood on the Tracks
When an accidental fire is found to have been caused by a bomb, Lilly and the team re-open the 1981 case involving the murder of a yuppie couple.
1981: 6.06 The Dealer
When a body is discovered in the trunk of a car, the team re-opens the 1981 case of a missing single mother who used to work at a car dealership.
1982: 2.17 Schadenfreude
A man claims that he was wrongfully convicted of the 1982 murder of his rich wife. The case is reopened when the victim's rare ring is discovered worn by a recently deceased junkie.
1982: 4.04 Baby Blues
Lilly re-investigates a 1982 case where a newborn baby died under suspicious circumstances of what was reported as SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome).
1982: 5.10 Justice
While investigating the 1982 murder of a popular college student, the team uncovers that the college staff and police ignored co-eds who accused him of date rape before his death.
1982: 7.13 Bombers
The team reinvestigates the 1982 death of a talented graffiti artist who was killed by a fatal overdose of toxic paint.
1983: 1.02 Gleen
The fiancé of a fireman asks Lilly to help prove that a convicted felon, about to be paroled on an unrelated crime, is responsible for the murder of the fireman’s first wife.
1983: 2.07 It's Raining Men
An HIV-positive gay man asks Rush and Valens to re-investigate the case of his dead partner who died of strangulation in 1983. Not only was the victim outspoken in his views about AIDS education within the 1980's secretive gay community, he was also the member of a very prominent family, disowned by his father for his sexual orientation.
1983: 7.08 Chinatown
The team reopens one of Stillman's old cases from 1983, that of a Chinese-American teenager whose murder may have been connected to the killing of his girlfriend by Chinese gang members three months before his own death.
1984: 3.22 The River
Lilly and the team re-open the 1984 case involving the shooting of a successful ER doctor when a new witness steps forward.
1984: 4.17 Shuffle, Ball Change
When the body of a missing teenager is found in a dumpster, the cold case team enters the macho blue-collar world of Kensington in the 80s and discovers the taboo secret that got the boy killed.
1985: 1.20 Greed
The team reopens the 1985 case of a wealthy stock broker. At the time it was deemed that Charles Danville was killed when someone attempted to steal his car, but new evidence suggests that he may, in fact, have been murdered.
1985: 2.09 Mind Hunters
The headless torso of a woman who disappeared in 1985, on the same day she filed domestic-abuse charges against her husband, is found by hikers in a wildlife preserve. The investigation quickly leads to the grisly discovery of 8 more decapitated bodies, the victims of a serial killer.
1985: 2.20 Kensington
"Kensington" --The murder case of a young mill worker is re-opened when Rush learns that a recent parolee admitted to stealing money off the victim's body.
1986: 1.23 Lover's Lane
When DNA evidence reveals that a wrong man was convicted for killing 15-year-old Eve Kendall back in 1986, the team re-opens her case in an attempt to find the real killer.
1986: 7.06 Dead Heat
When the remains of a jockey who had been missing since 1986 are uncovered in an old horse grave, the team reexamines the circumstances of his disappearance.
1986: 7.16 One Fall
The team reinvestigates the 1986 murder of a pro wrestler.
1987: 1.17 The Lost Soul of Herman Lester
When the son of a murdered high-school basketball star receives a death threat, Rush and Valens reopen the 1987 case of Herman Lester who was stabbed to death only hours after leading his team to win the state championship.
1987: 2.13 Time to Crime
After a murder weapon connected to the 1987 drive-by shooting of a little girl turns up, Det. Rush and her team re-open the case. The team slowly tracks back the gun's previous owners until the shocking original owner is finally revealed.
1987: 4.19 Offender
A man claims responsibility for pushing a sex offender off a building and vows to systematically kill another person every day until the cold case team can solve his son's 20-year-old murder.
1988: 3.01 Family
When a young girl is contacted by a man claiming to be her father, Det. Rush and her team reopen a 1988 case of a teenaged boy, killed on the same night the girl was born.
1988: 6.13 Breaking News
The 1988 murder of a Philadelphia news anchor is investigated after it is determined she was killed before she was able to report on a scandal involving a local factory's deadly working conditions.
1989: 1.09 Sherry Darlin'
Lilly gets an anonymous phone call from a man claiming he killed an elderly woman back in 1989 and buried her body in the basement of a house. When Lilly checks the dwelling, a body is recovered, but the alleged murderer refuses to identify himself.
1989: 1.21 Maternal Instincts
The 1989 case of a woman murdered in front of her 3-year-old son is re-opened. A psychologist asks Det. Rush to look into the case again when the son, now a 17-year-old teen, suffers from intense nightmares and troubled behavior.
1989: 4.09 Lonely Hearts
The team re-investigates the unsolved 1989 murder of a woman shot in an alley when the victim's video dating tape shows up in a dead man's apartment.
1989: 5.05 Thick As Thieves
The team re-open the case of an unidentified woman who dies after being in a coma since she was shot in 1989.
1989: 6.08 Triple Threat
The team re-opens the 1989 murder of a young Russian opera star who defected to the United States. She and her family sought asylum at the police station where Nick Vera was stationed when he joined the force.
1989: 7.21 Almost Paradise
The team reopens the 1989 case of a high-school girl who was killed in a hit-and-run accident shortly after being crowned prom queen.
1990: 1.04 Churchgoing People
Lilly re-investigates the case of a murdered church organist, when his Alzheimer's-stricken widow begins having flashbacks of the night in question. Lilly's investigation has both Mitchell's son, Ryan, and daughter, Tina, demanding Lilly close the search.
1990: 2.06 The Sleepover
Lilly reopens a 1990 murder case, in which a prep-school girl was found dead in a local swimming hole, after a present-day victim with similar markings is discovered at the same place.
1991: 2.05 Who's Your Daddy
Det. Rush investigates the 1991 double murder of married illegal immigrants from Cambodia who were shot to death in their apartment and found by their 6-year old daughter.
1991: 6.02 True Calling
The team re-opens the 1991 case of a young inner-city schoolteacher whose death was originally ruled as a carjacking-gone-wrong.
1991: 7.07 Read Between The Lines
The team reinvestigates the 1991 murder of a 14-year-old aspiring rapper who was in foster care with her younger sister at the time of her death.
1992: 1.19 Late Returns
The shooting death of a man in his driveway is connected to the unsolved 1992 murder of a Democratic campaign worker whose lifeless body was thrown into a nearby river on election night.
1993: 2.15 Wishing
When someone leaves drawings recreating an accident that killed a mentally disabled teen, it points the finger at the incident being murder.
1993: 7.22 Shattered
While Rush and Valens leave Philadelphia to find Rush's missing sister, Jeffries works to solve the 1993 murder of a teenage girl, hoping to fulfill the promise he made to the girl's parents to find the killer.
1994: 3.12 Detention
When a note connected to a supposed suicide is found, the team re-opens the 1994 case of a high-school kid who fell from the roof of the school building after having served detention.
1994: 3.20 Death Penalty: Final Appeal
The 1994 case of a raped and murdered 16-year-old girl is re-opened when Det. Jeffries gets a call from a prisoner on death-row -- scheduled to be executed in just three days.
1994: 5.01 Thrill Kill
Lilly returns to work and persuades the team to re-open the 1994 case of three fatally beaten boys, which may have resulted in the wrongful incarceration of two teen outcasts.
1995: 1.11 Hubris
A college professor, who lost everything − his career, his family, his reputation − after being suspected of murdering one of his female students in 1995, offers new information regarding the case that he hopes will clear his name.
1995: 2.18 Ravaged
A woman, who was romantically involved with Nick Vera in high school, claims that members of a fraternity might have been involved in her alcoholic sister's death in 1995.
1995: 4.01 Rampage
The 1995 case involving two teenage boys who committed suicide after going on a murderous shooting spree is re-opened when evidence surfaces that there may have been a third shooter.
1995: 7.02 Hood Rats
The team re-examines the 1995 murder of a homeless 17-year-old skateboarding prodigy who was trying to earn enough money to get himself off the streets.
1996: 4.13 Blackout
Lilly and Scotty re-open the 1996 case involving the supposed accidental death of a matriarch of a wealthy family when new evidence surfaces that suggests murder.
1997: 1.10 The Hitchhiker
Rush and Valens investigate the case of a cold-blooded killer who shot a young man trying to hitchhike his way home to Philly from Atlanta.
1997: 4.20 Stand Up and Holler
When an anonymous confession to the killing of a 16-year-old girl is found in a modern art exhibit, the cold case team is forced to enter the complicated, emotinoal and vicious world of high school cheerleading.
1997: 5.16 Bad Reputation
The team investigates the 1997 murder of an ex-con who was thought to be a fugitive until Lilly is handed newly found evidence to the contrary.
1998(?): 1.03 Our Boy is Back
A serial rapist sends a letter to the squad announcing his return to Philadelphia after five years and his plan to strike again. Lilly's best hope of catching the rapist comes from a victim who is able to provide a composite sketch.
1998: 2.16 Revenge
Lt. Stillman's priest informs him of a long ago confession where a man confessed being involved in the 1998 kidnapping of a 9-year old boy. The case is reopened with this new lead, and it turns out the truth is closer to home.
1998: 3.15 Sanctuary
The 1998 case of a female drug smuggler is re-opened. The woman was involved with Scotty at the time he was working undercover on a high-profile drug case, and he has been keeping it a secret from the team for all these years.
1998: 4.23 The Good Death
When a nurse confesses to the mercy killings of six patients, the cold case detectives re-open the 1998 case involving a terminally ill man who died months before he was expected to.
1998: 5.02 That Woman
Lilly and the team re-open the 1998 case of a fatally beaten 15-year-old girl who had a reputation in high school for being promiscuous.
1998-2008: 5.12 Sabotage
The team tries to catch a serial bomber before he succeeds in harming a man who was the intended target of his most recent bombing.
1998: 5.13 Spiders
The team re-opens the 1998 case of a murdered teenaged girl after her father is arrested for savagely beating the teen's 3-year-old step -sister.
1999: 1.18 Resolutions
A drunken driver's hit-and-run confession leads the detectives to discover that foul play -- not an accident -- may have killed the victim.
1999: 1.22 The Plan
The 1999 drowning death of a military academy's swim coach, which was originally ruled as accidental, is reinvestigated after the homicide division receives a note that suggests it was murder. Back at the office, Valens searches for Elisa after she goes missing.
1999-2005: 3.06 Saving Patrick Bubley
When a mother of five loses her fourth son to gang violence, Lilly sets out the save the youngest, reopening one of her first cases on the homicide squad.
1999: 3.07 Start-Up
Lilly re-opens the 1999 case of a young, healthy woman who nevertheless died of a heart attack. In the late 1990's, she was briefly an Internet millionaire, but due to bad business decisions, her dot.com company eventually went bust.
1999: 4.18 A Dollar, A Dream
When the body of a woman is found at the bottom of a river in her family station wagon, the cold case detectives realize that it wasn't just the family car, it was the family's home.
1999: 6.20 Stealing Home
The 1999 murder of a former Cuban baseball star who escaped to the U.S. to pursue a major-league career is reinvestigated.
1999: 7.09 Forensics
The team investigates the 1999 death of a young man, a member of a prep school debate team, whose death had been considered a suicide.
2000: 2.10 Discretion
The team re-opens the 2000 case of a prominent Puerto Rican assistant district attorney when rumors about his connection to a large amount of money gone missing at the time of his death start to circulate. However, his widow insists that the claims are not true.
2000: 3.14 Dog Day Afternoons
The case of a female bank teller shot to death in her work in 2000 is reopened when the same bank is robbed again by perpetrators wearing identical masks and equipped with identical weapons as six years earlier.
2000: 4.11 The Red and the Blue
When Jefferies' former partner comes to him armed with new information regarding the murder of a male singer in 2000, the case is re-opened and requires Lilly and a reluctant Scotty to travel down south.
2001: 1.08 Fly Away
When a young woman, Rosie, wakes up from a coma, Lilly re-opens the fall in which her 6-year-old daughter Toya died.
2001: 3.10 Frank's Best
The team re-opens the 2001 case of a robbed and murdered deli owner when the brother of the man convicted of the crime brings forth new evidence, suggesting the man may have been wrongfully accused.
2002: 3.18 Willkommen
Lilly and Jefferies re-open the 2002 case involving a local cabaret singer when a theater owner notices a .38 revolver lodged in a piece of set furniture.
2002: 4.14 8:03AM
Miller re-opens a 2002 case from her undercover days involving the labyrinth world of methamphetamine addiction to find the link between two murders that occurred at the exact same time.
2002: 5.06 Wunderkind
The team re-opens the 1992 case of a 14-year-old math genius who was shot after his 16-year-old half-brother exploited the boy's knack for counting cards and cracking safes.
2003: 2.01 The Badlands
Lilly returns to her last case before joining the Cold Case Squad as she re-investigates the brutal triple homicide of a restaurant owner and his family, murdered in the restaurant bathroom in 2003.
2003: 4.05 Saving Sammy
Lilly mixes business with pleasure when her boyfriend asks her to re-open the 2003 case involving an autistic boy who witnessed his parents' murder.
2003: 5.08 It Takes A Village
Lilly and the team hunt for a serial killer after a boy's body is discovered in a storage unit.
2004: 3.02 The Promise
Lilly re-opens the case of young girl, an overweight college freshman named Laurie, who died in a fraternity house fire in 2004. The fire was deemed accidental at the time, but a cell phone photo e-mailed from the girl's phone just moments before her death prompts a closer examination.
2004: 4.02 The War At Home
The 2004 case involving the disappearance of a female Iraqi war vet is re-opened when her high-tech titanium arm is found in the river.
2004: 6.18 Mind Games
The team reopen the 2004 case of a psychiatrist who died in a suspicious fire, and begin to suspect one of her former patients was the one that started the blaze.
2004: 7.03 Jurisprudence
The 2004 case of a teenager who died after being wrongfully imprisoned in a juvenile detention center is reopened.
2005: 5.18 Ghost of My Child
Lilly and her team investigate when a former junkie claims she just saw her child in a park, even though he died in a fire in 2005.
2005: 3.23 Joseph
When a popular drug counselor's debit card is used one year after his murder, Lilly and the team re-open the 2005 case.
2005: 4.22 Cargo
The cold case detectives delve into the world of the Russian mob when they re-open the 2005 case involving the murder of a longshoreman who innocently got in the middle of a profitable human trafficking ring.
2005: 6.10 Street Money
The team re-opens the 2005 murder of a young and promising African-American politician who was determined to get rid of drug dealers in lower-class neighborhoods.
2005: 6:22 & 6:23 The Long Blue Line/Into The Blue
The team reopens the case of the first ever female cadet at a local military academy, who was murdered in 2005.
2005: 7.11 The Good Soldier
The team investigates the 2005 murder of an Army recruiter, who was killed two days before his deployment to Iraq, and uncover evidence that the victim may have been involved in a high-profile jewelry heist.
2006: 4.12 Knuckle Up
A video clip that shows a promising college bound young man who disappeared in 2006, involved in the underground subculture of bare-knuckle brawling is found on the internet.
2006: 5.03 Running Around
The team re-opens the year-old case of an amish teen-aged girl who was murdered weeks after leaving home for Philadelphia to experience the outside world as a part of Rumspringa, an amish right of passage.
2006: 4.24 Stalker
A hostage situation takes over the Philadelphia Police Department and the cold case team must negotiate quickly before they lose one of their own.
2006: 5.14 Andy in C-Minor
After new evidence confirms that a deaf teenager was murdered, the team sets out to find his body and killer.
2006: 7.17 Flashover
The team reopens a fatal 2006 arson case when new evidence indicates that the original suspect may have been wrongly convicted.
2007: 5.15 The Road
Lilly and Valens head to West Virginia to retrieve a primary suspect in the 2007 case of a presumed-murdered woman who was abducted steps away from her engagement party.
2007: 6.12 Lotto Fever
The detectives reinvestigate the 2007 murder of an auto mechanic whose lottery winnings earned him a number of fair-weather friends when it is found that his bank account had recently been accessed.
2008: 6.15 Witness Protection
The team opens the 2008 case of a man who was murdered while in the witness protection program when his widow comes to the police asking for help in looking for their missing son.
2008: 7.15 Two Weddings
The team investigates the 2008 death of a young businessman who was killed the night before his wedding.
2009 6.17 Officer Down
When Jeffries is wounded and another man is killed during a robbery at a convenience store, the rest of the team must race against time to track down the shooter before the trail goes cold.
2010 7.19 Bullet
The team's investigation of the re-emerged serial killer continues as they look further into his past in the hopes of predicting his next move.