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.

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

After a woman emerges from a two-year coma with no memory of her identity or knowledge 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 he 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 his 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 a 1980 unsolved murder of an 8-year-old boy found buried in a snow drift, one of his first cases as a homicide detective.

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 killing of an anonymous six-year-old boy found in a field inside a cardboard box in 1958.

The discovery of a body with several bullet holes in it at the site of a disco destroyed in a 1978 fire where twenty-two other victims died leads the team to reinvestigate the circumstances of the fire.

Human remains found in an excavation lead the team to investigate the unsolved deaths of a 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 the night of the 1992 presidential election.

The team reopens the 1985 murder of Charles Danville, a wealthy stockbroker killed during an apparent carjacking gone wrong, and discovers he may have been a conman.

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 child molester , originally ruled as accidental, is reopened after the homicide division receives a note that suggests it was 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 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 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 team reinvestigates a 1987 drive-by shooting murder of a young girl at the park when the long-lost murder weapon is 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 murder of a mentally disabled young man 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 1985 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 a truck containing human bones is retrieved from the Delaware River, the team links the truck to a Prohibition 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 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 his daughter's death may not have been accidental, the team reopens the 2004 case of an 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 a 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 reopens her first case on the homicide squad back in 1999.

When a death threat turns up on the hard disk of an old computer, the team reopens the 1998 case of a young, healthy woman who died of a heart attack, and discover that she was a millionaire briefly during the dot-com boom of the nineties.

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

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 employee who was convicted 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.

The suicide death of a high school outcast in 1994 is reinvestigated when a missing piece of his suicide letter 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 who died of a gunshot at 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.

When a drug dealer, who 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.

When a woman requests that her sister's murder investigation is reopened while bearing new evidence that suggests she someone may have tried to poison her, the team reinvestigates the 1973 case of the murdered college tennis star.

When a gun is found amongst prop furniture at a local community theater, the team reinvestigates the 2002 murder of a taxi driver who was then recently 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 the dark cloud surrounding 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 claiming that he was set up by the policeman on the job.

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

When a new witness steps forward, Lilly and the team are prompted to reopen the 1984 shooting of a respected and beloved ER doctor who had a habit that 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 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 of what was reported as SIDS (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 of 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 family gathering during which the victim had died in 1996.

The case of two seemingly distant teenagers who were fatally shot at the same day and precisely the same time in different parts of town is reinvestigated by Kat Miller, who found one of the victims.

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 as 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.

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 1987 murder-rape.

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.

A 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 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 made many enemies through 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 adolescents were beaten to death when one of the men convicted for the crime commits suicide while still insisting he was innocent.

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.

When it is discovered that the social security number of a dead teenager was being used, 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 made against him 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 involved with a neo-nazi group when her father is arrested for beating another child.

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 just got out of prison is investigated 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.