List of Cold Case episodes

Detective Lilly Rush from Philadelphia Homicide reopens a 1976 murder case involving two wealthy families when the former housekeeper, who is dying of cancer, comes forward claiming to have witnessed the murder.

The team reinvestigates a 1983 murder in which a young mother was killed in an explosion shortly before she was to testify in court against a man who indecently exposed himself to her.

When a serial rapist sends a letter to the squad announcing his return to Philadelphia after five years, the team reinvestigates the 1998 murder of a college student who was believed to be one of his victims.

The team reinvestigates the 1990 case of a murdered church organist when his Alzheimer's-stricken widow begins having flashbacks of the night in question.

After a drug addict brings in an audio tape in which a fatal shooting is heard, the team reopens a 1973 case involving the unsolved death of a young police officer murdered after responding to a call at a drug-infested housing project.

A petty thief hoping to get a reduced sentence comes forward claiming to have seen a young man washing blood out of his car in 1981 on the same night a teen track runner was murdered. Detective Scotty Valens joins the Cold Case team.

A 75-year-old woman comes to Lilly seeking justice for her dead son, a college baseball player who was beaten to death outside a gay bar in 1964.

After a woman emerges from a two-year coma with no memory of her identity or knowledge of her daughter's death in 2001, the detectives investigate the fall which killed the child.

When Lilly gets an anonymous phone call from a man who claims to have killed an elderly woman in 1989 and buried her body in the basement of a house, the team investigates the murder of a grandmother who disapproved of her grandson's lifestyle.

When new evidence is uncovered that relates to a shooting death near Atlantic City in 1997, the team reopens the murder of a hitchhiker on his way back to Philadelphia.

A college professor whose career ended in disgrace after being suspected of murdering one of his female students in 1995 leads the detectives into a reinvestigation which he hopes will clear his name.

Det. Stillman asks Lilly to reinvestigate one of his first cases as a homicide detective, the unsolved murder of an 8-year-old boy who was knocked out and left for dead in a snow drift in 1980.

The team reopens the case of a twenty-five-year-old black woman who was raped and murdered in 1939, after the woman's granddaughter comes forward with new information.

The team reopens the unsolved case of an unknown six-year-old boy, whose body was found in a cardboard box in a field in 1958.

The team reinvestigates the circumstances of a fire that killed twenty-two people and destroyed a disco in 1978, when a new set of remains with a bullet hole in the skull is discovered at the site.

Human remains found during an excavation at a construction site lead the team to investigate the unsolved deaths of two radicals in their mid-20s, who disappeared in 1969.

When a teenager receives death threats over the phone, the team reopens the 1987 murder of his father, a Philadelphia high school basketball star who was found stabbed to death hours after leading his team to the State Championship.

The team reinvestigates a 1999 case involving the death of a man who was killed in a hit-and-run accident on New Year's Eve after a recovering alcoholic comes forward as the possible culprit.

A current murder case leads the team to reopen a case involving a young, politically-involved woman who was killed on the night of the 1992 presidential election.

The team reopens the 1985 murder of a wealthy stockbroker killed during an apparent carjacking gone wrong, and discovers that the victim may have been stealing from his clients.

When a juvenile delinquent claims to remember witnessing his mother's death, the team reinvestigates the 1989 murder of the young, single mother.

The 1999 drowning death of a military academy's strict swim coach, who turned out to be a pedophile, is reopened after the homicide division receives a note that suggests the death was not accidental, but murder.

When DNA evidence reveals a man was wrongfully convicted of murder, the team reopens the 1986 case of a fifteen-year-old girl who was murdered during a date at a popular lover's lane.

A 2003 triple homicide case that Vera and Lilly once investigated, goes sour in court when the prime suspect procures a viable alibi and the team must reopen the case in order to find the true killer of the owners of a popular diner and their employee.

The team reopens the 1943 death of a female factory worker which was originally ruled an accident when the sixty-year reunion of her coworkers stirs up new information in the case.

The discovery of a presumed snuff film featuring a missing teenage runaway causes the team to reopen a murder investigation from 1979.

When a bag of bones is discovered outside a former state penitentiary, the team reinvestigates the 1968 murder of an inmate.

When an internet auction listing for a gold bracelet is found by a nineteen-year-old girl who believes it to be her mother's jewelry, she requests that the 1991 double murder of her parents, who were Cambodian immigrants, be reinvestigated.

When a current investigation is discovered to be a copycat murder, the team reinvestigates the 1990 case of a twelve-year-old girl who was attending a slumber party the night of her death.

A long-term AIDS survivor asks the team to reopen the 1983 case of his dead boyfriend's murder in order to find peace before his upcoming wedding.

The 1953 murder of a school teacher who may have been a communist sympathizer is reopened at the request of the victim's youngest son, who has become suicidal.

The team begins the hunt for a serial killer when a murder investigation of a woman who disappeared in 1985 leads to the discovery of eight more victims, all of whom were found decapitated.

The team reinvestigates the 2000 unsolved murder of a prominent assistant district attorney from New Haven, CT when he is posthumously linked to a scandal.

The team reexamines a cult member's 1978 suicide when they learn of a new fatality that may be linked to the death.

A referee's deathbed confession leads the team to reopen a 1976 case in which an over-matched boxer died during a match that someone paid off to continue.

The case of a young girl killed in a drive-by shooting in 1987 is reopened when the long-lost murder weapon is finally turned in.

When the police arrest a fugitive draft-dodger returning from Canada as a suspect for a 1969 murder of a teenage girl, the team discovers that there may be more than one prime suspect.

When drawings depicting the death of a mentally disabled teenager are found next to the victim's grave, the detectives reopen the 1993 case and investigate the victim's turbulent home life.

The team reopens the case of a missing nine-year-old boy who was found murdered in 1998 when a priest recounts a dead man's confession related to the death.

The discovery of the personalized ring of a long-dead Philadelphia woman found on the finger of a dead junkie prompts the team to reopen the 1982 murder case of the troubled surgeon's wife.

The investigation of an accidental death of a young mother in 1995 reopens when the victim's sister asserts she may have been accosted by a group of college students the night of her death.

Haunted by a childhood memory, Jeffries persuades the team to reexamine the 1963 murder of a 16-year-old boy who moved with his African-American family into a predominantly white neighborhood.

The team reopens the 1984 case of an optimistic young mill worker who was murdered in an apparent mugging when someone comes forward claiming to have stolen money from the victim's body.

The team seeks to find a connection between a murder from 1977 to a serial killer about to be released on a legal technicality in order to keep him in prison.

When an old truck containing human bones is pulled from the Delaware River, the team re-opens the case, linking the truck to a Prohibition era bootlegger and believe the remains may be those of a woman who went missing in 1932.

The discovery of nine human skulls leads the team back to the serial killer George Marks, who they were unable to incriminate months earlier and, as the detectives reinvestigate his mother's murder from 1972, he emerges from hiding to face Det. Rush one-on-one.

When a teenage girl is contacted by a man claiming to be her biological father, the team reopens a 1988 case of a teenage boy who was killed on the same night the girl was born.

When a father presents photographic evidence that points to his daughter's death as not being accidental, the team reopens the 2004 case of the overweight college freshman who died in a fraternity house fire.

The 1978 murder of a teenager is reopened after the victim's mother finds a letter suggesting that his death wasn't random, and the team discovers that many of his friends had turned their backs on him shortly before his death.

The team reopens the 1945 case of an African-American baseball player, bludgeoned to death with his own bat.

When it is discovered that a recently deceased elderly woman had been using someone else's identity for decades, the team reopens the 1954 case of a housewife who was committed to a mental institution for almost burning her son in a house fire.

When a mother of five loses her fourth son to gang violence, Lilly's mission to save the youngest son causes her to reopen her first ever homicide case from 1999.

When a death threat is found on the hard disk of an old computer, the team reopens the 1999 case of a young, healthy woman who died of a heart attack, and discover that she was briefly a millionaire during the dot-com boom.

When a box filled with POW support bracelets is found in an abandoned drug den, the team reinvestigates the shooting death of a veteran of the Vietnam War who was killed in 1973, a year after he came home from the notorious Hanoi Hilton.

When a fisherman finds evidence of a young girl's death washed up onshore in New Jersey, the team reopens the 1965 case of an abused four-year-old child and examine the domestic violence that took place in her family's home.

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, who had worked at the deli, may have been wrongfully accused.

When the team receives a tip related to a 1988 murder, the team investigates the lives and relationships of the victim and his four close friends when they parted ways after high school in 1980.

The suicide of a high school outcast in 1994 is reinvestigated as a murder when a missing piece of his suicide note turns up, indicating that he may have been fearing for his life right before his death.

When a local art dealer is named a suspect in his wife's murder, the team reinvestigates the 1968 death of a girl he was escorting to a debutante ball.

The case of a female bank teller killed during a robbery 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.

When a drug dealer that Scotty worked with while undercover is convicted, the 1998 murder of one of his drug mules is reinvestigated.

When a man who turns himself in for the 1980 murder of a teenager who was buried alive on the night of his prom claims to have struck again, the team reinvestigates the previous case to discover the man's MO to find where his latest victim is buried before it is too late.

The team reinvestigates the 1973 case of a murdered college tennis star when the victim's sister presents them evidence that someone had been trying to poison her.

When a gun is found amongst prop furniture at a local community theater, the team reinvestigates the 2002 murder of a taxi driver who had just been cast for his first role in a musical.

The team reopens the 1929 case of a woman found dead in a ravine on Christmas Day when the victim's great-granddaughter asks the team to finally solve the case in order to clear away the dark cloud hovering over her family.

The 1994 case of a raped and murdered sixteen-year-old girl is reopened when Det. Jeffries receives a call from the man who is about to be executed for the murder, who claims that he was set up by one of the detectives who originally worked the case.

The 1945 murder of an ambitious female reporter is reopened when a letter turns up indicating that she was meeting someone at a train station the night when she was murdered.

When a new witness comes forward, Lilly and the team are prompted to reopen the 1984 shooting of a respected and beloved ER doctor whose secret gambling addiction was destroying his family.

When a victim's credit card is used a year after his death, Lilly reopens the 2005 case of a counselor at a teens' rehab center who was shot to death two weeks before he was scheduled to testify in a murder case.

A 1995 massacre at a shopping mall is reinvestigated when video evidence is found in a air shaft that indicates that there may have been an accomplice who escaped.

The team reopens the 2004 case of a missing veteran of the Iraq War when her prosthetic arm is found in a river.

When the remains of a Sandhog miner who disappeared in 1948 are found in a subway service tunnel, the team is prompted to reopen the case when they suspect the victim might have been murdered for being a union activist.

Lilly reinvestigates a 1982 case where a newborn baby died under suspicious circumstances, and was reported as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

Lilly reopens a 2003 case in which an autistic boy's parents were shot in their car when her boyfriend brings her information that the boy might have witnessed their murder.

The team reopens the 1958 case of a radio DJ nicknamed "The Hawk" when they discover audio evidence that suggests someone may have arranged his murder to look like a suicide.

When new evidence of a murder case from 1979 is found, Det. Jeffries, who worked on the case as a rookie cop, sets out to find the killer, fulfilling the promise he made to the victim's daughter twenty-seven years ago.

When an undelivered letter with a missing child's handwriting on it is found, the team is prompted to reopen the case of an eight-year-old girl who disappeared in 1975.

The team reinvestigates the unsolved 1989 murder of a woman shot in an alley when the victim's video dating tape shows up in the apartment of a man who committed suicide.

The team reinvestigates the 1968 death of a policeman who was shot in his patrol car when new evidence reveals the victim may have been set up for murder.

When the murder weapon used in the 2000 murder of a country singer is found, Lilly must travel to Tennessee with a reluctant Scotty in tow to reinvestigate the case.

When a video clip of a missing student is found on the Internet, the team reinvestigates the case of a gifted seventeen-year-old boy who disappeared just the year before in 2006.

When a fingernail is found underneath the diving board of a pool where an accidental drowning occurred, Lilly and Scotty reopen the case and investigate the 1996 family gathering during which the victim had died.

The team reinvestigates the case of two teenagers who were fatally shot in different parts of town on the same day in 2002, at precisely 8:03 AM.

When traces of an explosive are found in a house, the team reopens the 1981 case of a married couple who died in the house in what was then ruled an accidental gas leak.

Lilly reopens the 1964 case of a murdered seventeen-year-old girl who was killed the day after giving birth to a baby girl in a home for unwed mothers.

When human remains are found in a dumpster, the team reopens the 1984 case of a missing teenage boy who dreamed of becoming a dancer against his father's wishes.

When a station wagon with the bones of a murder victim inside is found at the bottom of a lake, the plight of a homeless family who once lived out of the car in 1999 becomes the team's focus during their investigation.

The father of a young boy who was raped and murdered in 1987 claims responsibility for pushing a sex offender off a building, and vows to systematically kill another person every day until the team can solve his son's case.

When an anonymous murder confession is found in a modern art exhibit, the team reinvestigates the fatal drug overdose of a sixteen-year-old cheerleader in 1997.

The great grand-niece of a woman who was murdered in 1919 asks the team to reopen the murder in order to reveal the truth behind the incident.

The FBI asks the team to reopen a case involving the 2005 murder of a longshoreman, whose death might be related to a Russian human-trafficking ring the FBI is trying to bring down.

When a nurse confesses to six incidents of mercy killing, the team reopens the 1998 case of a terminally ill man who died while under the care of the nurse, and discovers he had made many enemies throughout his career.

The team reopens a 2006 triple homicide when the only survivor of the shooting begins to remember details about the night her entire family was gunned down.

The team reopens a 1994 triple-murder case in which three young boys were beaten to death when the mother of one of the two teenagers convicted of the crime comes forward with evidence that they were innocent.

• Lilly sees the three victims riding their bikes past the house and one of them stops to thank her.
• Both the mother and friend of the wrongfully accused man who committed suicide see him as the friend is released from prison.
• Based loosely on the West Memphis 3.
• All the music featured in this episode is performed by Nirvana.

• Song featured in the finale: "Come as You Are", by Nirvana.

After a piece of clothing belonging to a murder victim is found in an old van, the team reopens the 1998 murder of a high school girl who had a reputation for being promiscuous.

When the younger sister of a missing person comes to the police for help, the team reopens the 2006 case of an Amish girl who was murdered while she was in Philadelphia experiencing the Amish rite of passage called "rumspringa".

The team reinvestigates the 1953 case of a talented 19-year-old rock'n'roll singer when new evidence comes forth suggesting he wasn't killed in the place where his body was found.

The team reopens the unsolved 1989 case of an unidentified Jane Doe when she dies in the hospital after being comatose since the day she was shot 18 years ago, only to encounter a long list of suspects when they learn that the woman was a professional con artist who had swindled dozens of people.

When a small-time crook is caught using the Social Security Number of a dead teenager, the team reopens the 2002 murder of the 14-year-old math phenom.

When human remains are discovered in the bottom of a well, the team opens the 1938 case of a housewife who went missing the night of Orson Welles' radio broadcast of War of the Worlds.

When the body of a newly missing boy is found in a cargo container, the remains of three other victims who vanished from 1999 to 2003 are found, and the team realizes they're dealing with a serial killer.

The team reopens the 1963 case of teenage girl who was thought to have committed suicide when new evidence leads them to believe the girl might have been murdered for acting and dressing like a boy.

The team reopens the 1982 case of a popular college valedictorian who was shot on the day of his graduation when they discover the accusations of rape made against him by several female students shortly before his death.

The team reopens the 1945 case of a Japanese-American man killed outside an Army-Navy football game when it was revealed that the original investigation may have been in the wrong place.

The team searches for a serial bomber whose latest pipe bomb maimed the wrong target and whose three previous bombings, in 1999, 2001 and 2003, collectively blinded a man and killed two others.

The team reopens the 1998 case of a murdered 17-year-old girl when her father is arrested for beating another child. During the investigation, the team finds evidence that the victim was involved with a group of neo-nazis who were suspected of another unsolved murder around the same time.

After traces of blood linked back to a missing teen are found, the team reinvestigates the 2006 case of a boy who went missing from a high school for the deaf.

Lilly and Scotty travel to West Virginia to escort a suspected murderer, who is believed to have abducted a woman from her 2007 engagement party and then killed her, back to Philadelphia.

The 1997 murder of an ex-con who had just been released from prison is reinvestigated when the victim's severed hand is discovered during a drug bust.

The team reopens the case of a woman who allegedly committed suicide in 1962 when it is revealed that her suicide note was not written in her handwriting.

A drug addict whose son was killed in an apartment fire in 2005 comes forth claiming she just saw her child in the park.

• The child is reunited with his mother.

• Song featured in the finale: "Far Away", by Nickelback.

• This episode was loosely based on the Delimar Vera case, who was abducted in December 1997 by a relative of the father during an apartment party fire and found by her mother in January 2003 at another relative's party.

The team reopens the 1991 case of a young inner-city schoolteacher, originally thought to have been killed in a carjacking gone wrong, when her car keys are discovered in an old desk at the high school.

• One of the victim's students sees her looking on as he studies for his GED.

• Song featured in the finale: "Half a World Away", by R.E.M..

• This episode appears to be based on Bel Kaufman's Up the Down Staircase.

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. Ultimatly its revealed that he lost most of his money through reckless spending and giving it away as well as being scammed by his finacial advisor who the squad calls the IRS and SEC on. He had $100,000 left and took it out of the bank before moving back to his old job and appartment. He was murdered by his brother-in law as he and the victim's sister desperatly needed the money and he refused to give it to them and they would get it if he died as his sister was next of kin. The victim died with his last words being that he left the money to the one person who never asked him for any and thus deserved it. His sister accesed his bank account two years later to see if the money was there and it wasn't, knowing his pin number as it was the name of his beloved childhood dog Ripley. The police search the sister and brother-in laws apartment and hardware store and find the murder weapon and bank card and the two confess. Its ultimatly revealed that the victim, Ed, placed the money in the trunk of the car of a waitress friend of his named Shelly who was always needing her car fixed and was one of his only true friends. She hadn't been able to afford the car getting fixed and thus it was sitting at the shop the whole time with the money in the trunk. Shelly gets the money as Ed left it to her before his murder and he appears to her and smiles before disappearing.

• The victim's friend sees him at the mechanic shop where he worked.
• Song featured in the finale: "On the Way Back Home", by Lucero.

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.

• The victim is seen by one of the employees of the company she was trying to expose.
• Song featured in the finale: "Shout", by Tears for Fears.

• The family the victim was trying to help see him walking down the street as they reunite.
• Song featured in the finale: "Pale Blue Eyes", by The Velvet Underground.

• The victim's family sees him smile at them on the beach.
• Song featured in the finale: "Until the Day Is Done", by R.E.M.

• The victim's father sees her as he lays down flowers where she died.
• Song featured in the finale: "Simple Man", by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
• Spencer Locke as Sarah Blake (victim)

• Will Jeffries, as a young man, sees the victim in the hospital where they were both brought.
• Song featured in the finale: "The Judgement", by Solomon Burke

• The victim is seen by her patient in his hospital room.
• All music featured in this episode is by John Lennon.
• Song featured in the finale: Watching the Wheels by John Lennon

• The victim is seen by his wife and his sister.
• Song featured in the finale: "This Land Is Your Land", by Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings

• The victim is seen by his wife at their son's baseball game.
• Song featured in the finale: "Vida Mas Simple" by Nil Lara.

• The victim is seen by his adoptive daughter at a pool tournament.
• Song featured in the finale: "My One & Only Love" by John Coltrane.

• All music featured in this episode is by Pearl Jam.
• No one sees the victim. First part of the season finale.
• Song featured in the finale: "Yellow Ledbetter" by Pearl Jam.

• All music featured in this episode is by Pearl Jam.
• The victim is seen twice. First by Lilly when she's saved and second by her parents.
• Song featured in the finale: "Black" by Pearl Jam.

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.

• The victim is seen by the man she was going to marry on the ship.
• All music in this episode is by Ray Charles.
• Song featured in the finale: "What Would I Do Without You?" by Ray Charles.

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.

• The victim is seen by his younger brother and Lilly Rush at the skate park.
• Song featured in the finale: "Disarm" by The Smashing Pumpkins.

The 2004 case of a teenager, that Valens knew, who died after being wrongfully imprisoned in a juvenile detention center is reopened.

• The victim is seen by the boy he was trying to protect at the detention center.
• Song featured in the finale: "None of Us Are Free" by Solomon Burke.

The team reinvestigates the 1970 murder of a young virtuoso jazz musician who was keeping a devastating secret from his devoutly religious father.

• The victim is seen by his father and his grown son while playing the electric piano.
• Song featured in the finale: "I'll Be Around" by The Spinners.
• This episode was originally to air on CBS on October 18, 2009 but was pre-empted to the following week of October 25 for American viewers. Other markets, such as the Canadian network CTV aired the episode at its intended date and time.

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.

• The victim is seen by two of the female pilots she worked with.
• Song featured in the finale: "I'll Walk Alone" by Martha Tilton.
• There is a final blurb stating that on July 1, 2009, the ladies of the WASP (Womens AirForce Service Pilots) were honored with the Congressional Gold Medal by Congress and President Obama for service to the nation during World War II.

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.

• The victim is seen by his apprentice at the apprentice's stables.
• A younger Lily is seen.
• All music in this episode is by Santana.
• Song featured in the finale: "Samba Pa Ti" by Santana.

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.

• The victim is seen by her sister dancing with her younger self.
• Song featured in the finale: "Read Between the Lines" by Danièle Watts. It is an original song written for this episode.

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.

• The victim and his deceased girlfriend are seen by his mother and the girlfriend's father.
• A younger Stillman is seen because he was the original investigator.
• Song featured in the finale: "Every Breath You Take" by The Police.

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.

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.

The team investigates the 2005 murder of an Army recruiter, who had also served in Afghanistan and came home with a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star.

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The team reinvestigates the 1982 death of a young, talented graffiti artist.

The team reinvestigates the 1971 death of an 18-year-old girl, who was the daughter of a famous trapeze team that died when she was a child.

The team investigates de death of a young businessman that was killed the night before his wedding.[1]