Cold Case (2004)
The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she's assigned "cold cases" -- older crimes that have never been solved.
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Episode 1 - The Badlands
Release Date: 3 Oct. 2004The triple murder of a couple running a restaurant and their employee 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.
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Episode 2 - Factory Girls
Release Date: 10 Oct. 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.
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Episode 3 - Daniela
Release Date: 17 Oct. 2004Lilly and Scotty are confronted by a battered woman whose pervert husband filmed a super 8 snuff film back in 1979 of a young girl presumably being shot.
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Episode 4 - The House
Release Date: 24 Oct. 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...
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Episode 5 - Who's Your Daddy
Release Date: 31 Oct. 2004Lilly meets a teenage girl named Kara whose parents were shot point-blank back in '91 and offers to reopen their murder files.
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Episode 6 - The Sleepover
Release Date: 7 Nov. 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.
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Episode 7 - It's Raining Men
Release Date: 14 Nov. 2004Lilly and Scotty reopen the 1983 cold case of an openly gay young man who tried to bring attention to the AIDS epidemic, much to the fear of the rich, closeted men he associated with.
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Episode 8 - Red Glare
Release Date: 21 Nov. 2004The team investigates the murder of a school teacher in 1953 whose case wasn't very well investigated since he believed in integration.
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Episode 9 - Mind Hunters
Release Date: 28 Nov. 2004The Cold Case team is assigned to a very disturbing case of a sinister serial killer who kidnaps women and whacks off their heads - and he might be closer to home than they realize.
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Episode 10 - Discretion
Release Date: 19 Dec. 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.
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Episode 11 - Blank Generation
Release Date: 9 Jan. 2005A deprogrammer of sects victims is accused of murdered, so the sister of a teenager that committed suicide in 1978, treated by the same man, asks Lilly and the team for help: she now suspects that her brother could be murdered then, too. Besides, Valens receive devastating news.
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Episode 12 - Yo, Adrian
Release Date: 16 Jan. 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.
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Episode 13 - Time to Crime
Release Date: 30 Jan. 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.
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Episode 14 - Revolution
Release Date: 20 Feb. 2005Detectives Rush and Valens reopen a murder case from December of 1969 after serving an arrest warrant to a draft dodger who claims he is innocent of murdering his girlfriend.
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Episode 15 - Wishing
Release Date: 6 Mar. 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.
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Episode 16 - Revenge
Release Date: 13 Mar. 2005After a young boy drowns, the team investigates.
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Episode 17 - Schadenfreude
Release Date: 20 Mar. 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.
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Episode 18 - Ravaged
Release Date: 27 Mar. 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.
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Episode 19 - Strange Fruit
Release Date: 3 Apr. 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.
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Episode 20 - Kensington
Release Date: 24 Apr. 2005An optimistic young mill worker is murdered months after the mill closes.
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Episode 21 - Creatures of the Night
Release Date: 1 May 2005A theater usher is murdered while his girlfriend dances at the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Lilly tries to pursue the killer.
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Episode 22 - Best Friends
Release Date: 8 May 2005An old truck is found in a river with human remains inside, leading the team to re-open the case of a girl who disappeared in 1932. When the girl's former best friend is interviewed, questions arise: just best friends, or forbidden love?
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Episode 23 - The Woods
Release Date: 22 May 2005When a serial killer resurfaces after walking away from his convictions, Lilly unravels his childhood, which was filled with abuse, rape, murder and insanity, and he follows her every move.