
Cold Case — Season 3

A call from an unknown man, asserting paternity, draws Detective Rush and her team back into a cold case from 1988. The file details the murder of a teenage boy, a tragedy that occurred on the very night the young girl in question was born.

Lilly reopened the case of Laurie, a young woman who had been an overweight college freshman when she died in a fraternity house fire in 2004. The blaze had been ruled accidental, but a cell phone photograph, emailed from Laurie’s phone mer…

The case of the young man’s killing in 1978 has been reopened. A letter discovered by his mother has fueled suspicion that his death was not a random act.

Detective Rush reopened the cold case of a baseball player, a brutal murder committed in 1945 – the player had been struck repeatedly with his own bat.

In 1954, nine-year-old Otis Petrowski last saw his mother within the walls of a mental institution. More than fifty years later, spurred by the death of an elderly woman who had lived as Otis’s mother, Detective Rush begins to unravel the t…

The loss of her fourth son to gang violence compels Lilly to act. Driven by a desperate need to protect her remaining child, she revisits a case from her early years with the homicide division, reopening a wound she thought long closed.

Lilly reopened the case of a young, vibrant woman who had succumbed to a heart attack. In the late nineties, the woman had experienced a fleeting moment of online wealth, briefly achieving millionaire status through the burgeoning internet.…

The discovery of a box brimming with bracelets bearing the inscription "POW Support" stirred something within Detective Rush. It was found in a derelict drug den, and the find prompted him to reopen the case of Carl, a Vietnam veteran shot …

The discovery of a young girl’s remains on a New Jersey beach stirs a forgotten memory within Lilly. It is the cold case of a four-year-old, vanished in 1965, whose mother had fostered an atmosphere of subtle cruelty. The past, it seems, ha…

The team reopened the 2001 case of a deli owner who was robbed and murdered. A brother of the man convicted in the crime presented new evidence, hinting that his brother might have been wrongly accused.

In 1980, four inseparable friends parted ways as they transitioned from high school to the next chapter of their lives. Eight years later, in 1988, one of them became the victim of a brutal murder. The homicide division received an anonymou…

The discovery of a note seemingly linked to a suicide prompts the team to revisit the 1994 case of a high school student who died after falling from the school roof following detention. In 1994, the death was ruled a suicide, but the recent…

Lilly reopened the case of an eighteen-year-old woman who had died, seemingly in an accident, the night of her debutante ball in 1968. Now, the girl's mother has come forward with fresh evidence, spurred by the accusation against a local ar…

The 2000 murder of a bank teller, shot within her workplace, was thrust back into the spotlight when the same bank became the target of a robbery. The perpetrators, masked and armed, were unsettlingly familiar – their equipment and disguise…

The 1998 case of the female drug smuggler has been reopened. At the time of the smuggling operation, she had a relationship with Scotty, who was working undercover on a significant drug investigation. He has concealed this connection from h…

Lilly and the cold case team face a grim challenge: deciphering the cryptic clues left by a deranged killer, all to save a young boy abandoned to a desperate fate. Their immediate task, however, is locating the child, a search that demands …

The discovery of a towel saturated with poison at the station stirred something within Lilly, prompting her to revisit the unsolved 1973 murder of a promising female college tennis player.

The team reopened the dormant case of a murdered amateur actor from 2002 when the owner of a neighborhood theater discovered a concealed firearm within a piece of stage set.

Lilly is drawn back into the cold case of a woman discovered dead in a ravine on Christmas Day in 1929 when the victim’s great-granddaughter seeks her assistance. At the same time, Lilly's estranged mother appears, hoping to bridge the dist…

The unsolved 1994 murder of a sixteen-year-old girl, who had been raped, is thrust back into the spotlight when Detective Jeffries receives a call from a prisoner awaiting execution. His sentence is set to be carried out in a mere three day…

The unsolved 1945 murder of a newspaper reporter is under renewed scrutiny. Recent evidence suggests the woman was deliberately pushed before a train by someone known to her.

The appearance of a new witness stirs Lilly and her team to revisit the 1984 shooting of a highly regarded emergency room physician. The doctor, deeply loved and respected by his colleagues, had harbored a secret carefully concealed from hi…

A year after his death, the victim’s credit card is used, prompting Lilly to reopen the 2005 case of a counselor at a youth rehabilitation center. He had been shot just two weeks before he was due to testify in a murder trial. As Lilly inve…


