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Cold Case: Season 1

23 episodes Premiered Sep 28, 2003 Updated Jul 18, 2026
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Episodes

S1·E1

Look Again

Sep 28, 2003 · 45 min

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.

S1·E2

Gleen

Oct 5, 2003 · 45 min

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. The y

S1·E3

Our Boy Is Back

Oct 12, 2003 · 44 min

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

S1·E4

Churchgoing People

Oct 19, 2003 · 45 min

Lilly re-investigates the case of a murdered church organist, when his Alzheimer's-stricken widow begins having flashbacks of the night in question.

S1·E5

The Runner

Oct 26, 2003 · 43 min

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 twenty-one-year-old rookie cop.

S1·E6

Love Conquers Al

Nov 9, 2003 · 44 min

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,

S1·E7

A Time to Hate

Nov 16, 2003 · 45 min

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 hop

S1·E8

Fly Away

Nov 30, 2003 · 46 min

When a young woman, Rosie, wakes up from a coma, Lilly re-opens the fall in which her 6-year-old daughter Toya died. Things get complicated when the mother remembers very little o

S1·E9

Sherry Darlin'

Dec 7, 2003 · 46 min

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 bod

S1·E10

The Hitchhiker

Dec 21, 2003 · 44 min

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.

S1·E11

Hubris

Jan 11, 2004 · 46 min

A college professor (Jeffrey Nordling), who lost everything − his career, his family, his reputation − after being suspected of murdering one of his female students (Kaitlin Double

S1·E12

Glued

Jan 18, 2004 · 46 min

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

S1·E13

The Letter

Jan 25, 2004 · 45 min

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 t

S1·E14

Boy in the Box

Feb 15, 2004 · 43 min

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

S1·E15

Disco Inferno

Feb 22, 2004 · 46 min

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

S1·E16

Volunteers

Mar 7, 2004 · 46 min

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 tha

S1·E17

The Lost Soul of Herman Lester

Mar 14, 2004 · 46 min

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 lead

S1·E18

Resolutions

Mar 28, 2004 · 43 min

Lilly investigates an unsolved hit-and-run accident from New Year's Eve 1999 that left a man dead, after a recovering alcoholic comes forward and claims she is the one who hit him.

S1·E19

Late Returns

Apr 4, 2004 · 43 min

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

S1·E20

Greed

Apr 18, 2004 · 43 min

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 sugge

S1·E21

Maternal Instincts

Apr 25, 2004 · 43 min

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, suffe

S1·E22

The Plan

May 2, 2004 · 46 min

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

S1·E23

Lover's Lane

May 23, 2004 · 44 min

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.