Cold Case Files: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Cold Case Files Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Operation Jambalaya/Footprints in the Snow
Jan 1, 2000
A New Orleans police officer goes undercover on a Baton Rouge riverboat to gain a confession from one of the ship's maintenance workers who is suspected of murder. And a Wisconsin
The South Side Rapist
Jan 8, 2000
A series of brutal rapes in St. Louis goes unsolved for many years until a fluke audit of a license plate number leads police to the culprit.
Mark of a Killer/Dead Ends
Jan 15, 2000
A killer's bite marks and a jailhouse snitch lead to a murder conviction in a case gone cold for eight years, and Bill Kurtis joins a group of super sleuths trying to solve the sla
The Baiting Game/The Killer's Tattoo
Jan 22, 2000
Investigators in Virginia, probing the murder case of a sailor, seek the help of a forensic anthropologist from the "body farm" in the Great Smoky Mountains. Dr. William Bass becam
Ticket to Nowhere/The Paper Route
Jan 29, 2000
A 13-year-old girl's mother is murdered and 20 years later she helps bring the killer to justice; and a dogged policeman gets to the bottom of the brutal murder of a 63-year-old ne
Traces of Murder/The Bathtub Killer
Feb 5, 2000
A killer helps convict himself when he boasts about his crime to prison cellmates; and New Hampshire investigators probing the murder of a pregnant woman found raped, strangled, an
Pride and the Fall/The Nail File
Feb 12, 2000
A woman's fall from a cliff in the Grand Canyon leads police to uncover a series of grisly murders, and investigators smoke out a killer when they find crucial DNA evidence on his
In the Care of a Killer/Deadly Lies
Feb 19, 2000
The suspicious death of 2-year-old Billy Blankenship is solved when police force his babysitter to re-enact the circumstances of his death. Then, a murder case is solved when the d
Lady in the Box
Feb 26, 2000
The murder of an Ohio woman in 1974 is solved more than 20 years later after police get a crucial clue--the woman's husband was seen building a coffin-shaped box about the time the
Crimes of the KKK
Mar 5, 2000
Klan leader Sam Bowers goes on trial for ordering the murder of an African-American storeowner 32 years prior, and investigators reopen the unsolved case of an African-American tru
Murder On The Menu
Mar 12, 2000
A boy's toy Batmobile car provides an important clue for detectives struggling to make a case against a serial killer who stalks and kills waitresses.
The Widow and the Wolf/Unicorns and Alligators
Mar 19, 2000
After the murder of her aunt goes cold, a woman helps launch Citizens Against Homicide, an advocate group that brings awareness to cases that have gone unsolved. And police solve a
Vintage Murder/Trouble in Paradise
Mar 26, 2000
Police doggedly reopen a rape-murder case 25 years after the crime and find enough DNA evidence on the suspect's cigarette butts to bring him to justice. And a confession made to a
The Perfect Murder/Death of Innocents
Apr 2, 2000
It takes nine years and the work of cutting-edge forensic toxicologists to solve the murder of a medical examiner's wife. Then, a determined Alabama sheriff reopens the case of the
The Unluckiest Man/The Deadly Triangle
Apr 9, 2000
Fire investigator Jack Malooly helps crack the case of an arsonist and killer who set a series of fires to collect insurance money; and a prison inmate tells a homicide detective t
Cat and Mouse/Cabbie Killer
Apr 16, 2000
A police investigator discovers a letter written 16 years earlier that provides clues to a woman's murder. And a firearms expert supplies the evidence that South Carolina authoriti
The Cuff Link/Graveyard Shift
Apr 23, 2000
Police solve an old murder case with a painstaking examination of the tool mark on the plastic flex cuff that bound the victim's hands, and a 15-year-old murder case is finally cra
The Good Samaritan/Gun Shy
Apr 30, 2000
New DNA technology and the national DNA databank help police hunt down a rapist-killer 11 years after he committed his crimes, and a detective's painstaking recreation of a woman's
A Map To Murder/Life on the Run
May 7, 2000
After a long manhunt, cops finally close in on a serial killer with the help of the Internet and information supplied by a subsidiary of Microsoft. And a drug trafficker jumps bail
Soft Kill/Unsolved
May 14, 2000
Police run down more than 11,000 leads before coming up with a suspect in the murders of three Virginia girls; and the abduction and strangulation of a California woman continues t
License to Kill/The Tell-Tale Mark/The Supermarket Mystery
May 21, 2000
A quarter of a century after the murders of two nurses, Canadian police suspect that a former Toronto cop committed the crimes. A blow to the head of a garbage collector in San Jos
The Original Night Stalker
May 28, 2000
In the 1980s, a serial killer prowled the posh streets of Orange County. Police were unaware of the serial attacks until 1996, when DNA revealed the killer's secret and they linked
Cold Hit/Silent Kill
Jun 4, 2000
A thumbprint connects two separate murders and it is later discovered that the suspect had a strange fetish for women's lingerie. Then, an elderly woman is found murdered in her be
Mommie Dearest
Jun 11, 2000
A mother is suspected in the murders of two of her daughters, when her third daughter finally convinces police to reopen two cold cases.
A Sealed Fate/Deadly Divorce
Jun 18, 2000
A murderer's saliva, found on envelopes that he sealed, helps seal his doom 37 years after his first killing. And Colorado police crack a cold case 24 years later when they take a