List of Cold Case episodes

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

Lilly investigates a 1983 murder in which a young mother was killed by a homemade bomb packed in a laundry-detergent box shortly before she was to testify in court against a man who exposed himself to her.

A serial rapist sends a letter to the squad announcing his return to Philadelphia after five years and his plan to strike again.

Lilly re-investigates 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, Lilly 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 crook 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.

A 75-year-old woman comes to Lilly seeking justice for her dead son, a college baseball player, the victim of a gay-bashing incident in 1964.

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

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 new evidence is found Lilly re-opens the case of a hitchhiker found murdered in 1997 near Atlantic City.

A college professor whose career ended in disgrace after being suspected of murdering one of his female students in 1995, offers new information regarding the case that he hopes will clear his name.

Det. Stillman asks Lilly to re-open a case he couldn't solve, a 1980 unsolved murder of an 8-year-old boy found buried in a snow drift.

Rush and Valens re-open the case of a 25-year-old black woman, who was raped and murdered in 1939, after the woman's granddaughter comes forward with new information.

Lilly and Scott re-open the unsolved killing of an unknown 6-year-old boy found in a field inside a cardboard box in 1958.

The discovery of a body with several bullet holes at the site of a disco destroyed in a 1978 fire — a suspected arson —where there were also twenty-two other victims leads Rush and Valens to re-investigate the circumstances of the fire.

Human remains found in the excavation for a new building lead Rush and Valens to investigate the unsolved deaths of a man and a woman in their mid-20s who disappeared in 1969.

Rush and Valens re-open the 1987 case of Philadelphia high school basketball star Herman Lester, found stabbed to death hours after leading his team to the State Championship.

Rush and Valens investigate a 1999 case involving the death of man involved in a hit-and-run accident on New Year’s Eve after a woman comes forward as the possible culprit.

A current murder case leads Rush and Valens to re-open a cold case from 1992 involving a young woman killed after leaving a political event on election night.

Rush and Valens reopen the 1985 murder of Charles Danville, a wealthy stockbroker killed during an apparent carjacking gone wrong.

Rush is called in to investigate a 14-year-old unsolved homicide of a woman who was murdered in front of her child.

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 was murder.

As the first season ends, Lilly reopens a 1986 case in which a 15-year-old girl was killed at a popular lovers lane: DNA evidence has revealed that an innocent man was convicted of the crime. The new investigation turns the spotlight on several men who were attracted to the teen and may have had motive to kill her.

A triple homicide case goes sour in court when the prime suspect procures a viable alibi and Rush must re-open the case to find the true killer. The victims, a couple who ran the local diner, and their teenage employee, were friends of Jeffries, making the case more personal.

A sixty-year reunion of female factory workers from World War II stirs up new information in the death of a young woman in 1943. The woman's death, originally ruled as an accidental fall, appears to have more secrets behind it as Lilly re-opens the case.

The discovery of a home movie starring a teenage runaway causes Lilly and Valens to reopen a murder investigation from 1979.

When a bag of bones is discovered outside a former state penitentiary, Lilly and the team re-investigate the 1968 murder of an inmate.

When a 19-year-old girl turns up with a solid gold bracelet that she claims belonged to her dead mother, Lilly and the team re-open the 1991 case of the Cambodian immigrants who were brutally murdered in their home in what was then believed to be a robbery. When it's revealed that the dead couple hid their identity in order to evade deportation, Lilly must piece together who these people really were.

The strangulation of a young woman mirrors the unsolved case of a 12-year-old girl in 1990, murdered at the home of a troubled teenager.

A long-term AIDS survivor asks Rush and Valens to re-open the 1983 case of his dead partner's murder.

Old wounds caused by the communist witch hunts of the 1950s are re-opened when Lilly and the team re-investigate an unsolved murder from 1953.

The headless torso of a woman who disappeared in 1985, on the same day she filed domestic-abuse against her husband, is found by hikers in a wildlife preserve. The investigation quickly leads to the grisly discovery of eight more decapitated bodies, the victims of a serial killer.

Lilly re-investigates the 2000 unsolved murder of a prominent assistant district attorney from New Haven, CT when he is posthumously linked to a scandal.

Rush and the team re-examine a cult member's 1978 suicide when they learn of a new fatality that may be linked to it.

A referee's deathbed confession leads to the reopening of a 1976 case in which an over-matched fighter died during a bout.

Rush and the team re-investigate a 1987 drive-by shooting when the murder weapon is turned in.

Rush re-opens the 1969 case of a young woman found murdered in her lover's apartment after the victim's aggressive brother gathers more information, and finds that she has more than one prime suspect.

When drawings depicting the murder of a mentally disabled teenager from 1993 are found next to the victim's grave, the detectives re-open the case and the victim's former caregiver becomes the prime suspect.

When a priest comes forward with a person's confession related to the death of a 9-year-old boy, police reopen the 1998 case, and the boy's uncle becomes a prime suspect.

The rare ring of a long-dead Philadelphia woman is found on the finger of a dead junkie, prompting Rush and the team to reopen the 1982 murder case.

The investigation of an accidental death in 1995 reopens when the victim's sister asserts she may have been murdered by members of a fraternity.

Haunted by a childhood memory, Jeffries persuades the team to re-examine the 1963 murder of a 15-year-old boy.

Rush and the team reopen the 1985 case of an optimistic young mill worker who was murdered in a town filled with despair.

Rush and Valens try to connect a murder from 1977 to a serial killer about to be released from prison on a legal technicality.

When a truck containing human bones is retrieved from the Delaware River, Rush and Valens link 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 Rush back to George Marks, the serial killer she was unable to incriminate months earlier, and who walked away a free man. As the detectives reinvestigate his mother's murder from 1972, Marks emerges from hiding to face Rush again.

When a young girl is contacted by a man claiming to be her father, Det. Rush and her team reopen a 1988 case of a teenage boy, killed on the same night the girl was born.

Lilly re-opens the case of young girl, an overweight college freshman named Laurie, who died in a fraternity house fire in 2004. The fire was deemed accidental at the time, but a cell phone photo e-mailed from the girl's phone just moments before her death prompts a closer examination.

The 1978 murder of a young man is re-opened after the victim's mother finds a letter suggesting that his death wasn't random.

Det. Rush re-opens the 1945 case of a baseball player, bludgeoned to death with his own bat.

In 1954, 9-year-old Otis Petrowski last saw his mother in a mental institution. Now over 50 years later, after the death of an elderly woman who had been using Otis' mother's identity, Det. Rush sets out to discover what happened to the boy's real mother.

When a mother of five loses her fourth son to gang violence, Lilly sets out to save the youngest, reopening one of her first cases on the homicide squad in 1999.

Lilly re-opens the 1999 case of a young, healthy woman who nevertheless died of a heart attack. In the late 1990s, she was briefly an Internet millionaire, but due to bad business decisions, her dot.com company eventually went bust.

When a box filled with POW support bracelets is found in an abandoned drug den, Det. Rush re-investigates the shooting of Carl, a veteran of the Vietnam War who came back in 1972 and was killed in 1973.

When a fisherman finds evidence of a young girl's death washed up on a shore in New Jersey, Lilly re-opens the 1965 case of 4-year-old child who had a seemingly abusive father.

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 may have been wrongfully accused.

Four close high school friends each went their separate ways in 1980. Eight years later, in 1988, one of them was murdered. The homicide team receives a tip about the murder, prompting a re-investigation of the case and an examination of the friends' lives, hopes and dreams after high school.

When a note connected to a supposed suicide is found, the team re-opens the 1994 case of a high-school kid who fell from the roof of the school building after having served detention. At the time, the death was deemed a suicide, but the newly-found note indicates that the victim might have been fearing for his life.

Lilly re-opens the 1968 case of an 18-year-old girl who died -- apparently accidentally -- at the night of her debutante ball. Now her mother comes forth with new evidence when a local art dealer is accused of murdering his wife in the same manner the girl died.

The case of a female bank teller shot to death in 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.

The 1998 case of a female drug smuggler is re-opened. The woman was involved with Scotty at the time he was working undercover on a high-profile drug case, and he has been keeping it a secret from the team for all these years.

Lily is informed by a man to read the file of a boy that was buried alive in 1980, because the man did it. The man then reveals that he has just buried another boy and then proceeds to give the team clues to where to find him. However the Cold Case team will have to dig deeper into the previous case to discover the man's MO to discover where his latest victim is buried.

When a poison-soaked towel turns up at the station, Lilly re-opens the 1973 case of a murdered female college tennis star.

The team re-opens the 2002 case of a murdered amateur actor when the owner of a local community theater finds a gun hidden inside prop furniture.

Lilly re-opens the 1929 case of a woman found dead in a ravine on Christmas Day when the victim's great-granddaughter comes in asking for help. Meanwhile, Lilly's estranged mother shows up, hoping to re-connect with her daughter.

The 1994 case of a raped and murdered 16-year-old girl is re-opened when Det. Jeffries gets a call from a prisoner on death-row -- scheduled to be executed in just three days.

The 1945 case of a murdered newspaper reporter is reopened when new evidence suggests that the woman was thrown in front of a passing train by someone she knew.

When a new witness steps forward, Lilly and the team are prompted to re-open the 1984 shooting of a respected and beloved ER doctor who had a secret he had been hiding from his family.

When the victim's credit card is suddenly used a year after his death, Lilly re-opens the 2005 case of a counselor at a teens' rehab center who was shot to death just two weeks before he was scheduled to testify in a murder case. During the probe, Lilly feels a strange connection to the victim, and her personal attachment may end up jeopardizing the case.

In 1995, two teenage boys went on a shooting spree at a local mall and committed suicide shortly afterwards. The team is prompted to re-open the case when new evidence suggests that there may have been a third shooter who got away.

The team re-opens the 2004 case of a female veteran of the Iraqi War when her prosthetic arm is found in a river. Meanwhile, Scotty visits his older brother in connection with a case that brings up painful memories from their childhood.

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

Lilly re-investigates a 1982 case where a newborn baby died under suspicious circumstances of what was reported as SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome).

Lilly re-opens a 2003 case in which an autistic boy's parents were shot in their car when Joseph brings her information that the boy might have seen the killer.

The team re-opens the 1958 case of a local celebrity, a radio DJ nicknamed "The Hawk", when they discover his death was staged to look like a suicide.

When new evidence of a murder case from 1979 is found, Det. Jeffries – who then worked on the case as a rookie cop – sets out to find the killer, fulfilling the promise he made to the victim's daughter 27 years ago.

When an undelivered letter with a missing child's handwriting on it shows up, the team is prompted to re-open the case of an 8-year-old girl who disappeared in 1975.

The team re-investigates the unsolved 1989 murder of a woman shot in an alley when the victim's video dating tape shows up in a dead man's apartment.

The team re-investigates the 1968 death of a policeman who was shot in his patrol car. The case was then ruled as a drug bust gone bad, but new evidence now reveals the victim may have been romantically involved with his partner.

When Jeffries' former partner comes forth with new evidence of the 2000 murder of a country singer, Lilly must travel to Knoxville, Tennessee with the reluctant Scotty in tow.

When a video clip of a missing student is found on the Internet, the team re-investigates the case of a talented 17-year-old boy who disappeared just a year before in early 2006.

When a fingernail is found at a pool where there was an accidental death, Lily and Scotty re-open the case. The Williams family appears to be the perfect family, but as Lilly and Scotty investigate they find that the family was very dysfunctional. The matriarch who drowned in the pool was stranded with her ex-husband, two children and grandchild during a snow storm. As the investigation continues, it appears that nearly everyone there had a motive to kill her as she held money over her daughter's head and sexually abused her son and attempted to do the same to her grandson.

In 2002, two kids were shot in front of two different schools on the same day at precisely 8:03 a.m. It's the fifth anniversary of the shootings, and Kat Miller wants to re-open the murders because she feels the cases are connected.

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

Lilly re-opens the 1964 case of a murdered 17-year-old girl who was killed the day after giving birth to a baby girl in a home for unwed mothers.

When a body is found in a dumpster, the team re-opens the 1984 case of a murdered teenage boy who wanted to become a dancer against his father's wishes.

The plight of a homeless family living out of their station wagon becomes the cold case team's focus as they investigate the 1999 murder of a woman found at the bottom of a river.

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.

An anonymous confession to the killing of a 16-year-old girl in 1997 is found in a modern art exhibit, forcing the Cold Case team to enter the complicated, emotional and vicious world of high school cheerleading.

A great grand-niece of a woman, Frances, who was murdered in 1919 comes to the team asking them to reopen the case. As the team investigates they discover that her murder had to do with her activism for women's rights and her defiance of her family. Meanwhile, Lilly has to get her drunken mother out of jail.

The FBI asks the team to re-open a cold case involving the murder of a longshoreman whose death might be related to a human trafficking ring the FBI is trying to bring down. Through the investigation, the team learns that the man was trying to help one of the girls and was murdered by another when he refused to help her as well. Meanwhile, Lilly's mother ends up in the hospital with liver damage due to her drinking and Lilly must bring her mother to live with her.

When a nurse confesses to six mercy killings, the cold case detectives re-open the 1998 case involving a terminally ill man who died while under the care of the nurse. But as the detectives investigate the case they realize there were a lot of people who wanted to see the man dead. However, the murder turns out to be a mercy killing, just not by the man they believed did it. Meanwhile, Lily struggles to help her alcoholic mother.

When an injured girl starts regaining her memory about the night her family was killed, the team investigates. Meanwhile, Lilly's mother dies while she's at work. When Lilly returns to work to take her mind off of things, the team is taken hostage by the killer they are searching for. The Captain is shot when snipers try to take out the killer. He freaks out and takes the girl, Lilly goes with them into the interrogation room. Before the killer dies, he shoots her as well.

On her first day back since the shooting, Lilly reopens a 1994 triple-murder case in which three boys were beaten to death when one of the convitected men for the crime commits suicide and appears a note of the real killer.

After a piece of clothing belonging to a murder victim is found, the team re-opens the 1998 case of a high school girl who had a reputation for being promiscuous.

When the victim's younger sister comes looking for her, the team re-opens the 2006 case of a missing Amish girl who was murdered while she was in Philadelphia experiencing the Amish rite of passage called "rumspringa".

The team re-investigates 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 re-opens the 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.

The team re-opens the 2002 case of a 14-year-old math whiz whose half-brother exploited his unusual talents: card counting and safe cracking.

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 along with the remains of three other victims who vanished in 1999-2003, the team realizes they're dealing with a serial killer.

The team re-opens the 1963 case of teenage girl who was then thought to have committed suicide. Now, new evidence leads them to believe the girl might have been murdered for acting and dressing like a boy.

The team re-opens the 1982 case of a well-liked young man who was shot to death after being accused of date rape by several female college students.

The team re-opens the 1945 case of a Japanese-American man killed outside an Army-Navy football game. After his daughter, born in an internment camp during WWII, informs Lily that the family had only recently relocated to Philadelphia, it becomes evident that the police had originally looked in the wrong place for the killer.

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 re-opens the 1998 case of a murdered 17-year-old girl when her father is arrested for beating another child.

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

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

The 1997 murder of an ex-con who has just got out of prison is investigated when the victim's severed hand is discovered during a drug bust. The arrested drug dealer claims he found the ex-con already dead, but cut off the hand and disposed of the victim's body.

The team re-opens the case of a woman who allegedly committed suicide in 1962 when the victim's granddaughter comes forth with evidence that the note found on the death scene -- then thought to be the suicide note -- was not written in the victim's handwriting.

In the season finale, a drug addict mother, who lost her son in an apartment fire in 2005, comes forth claiming she just saw the same child in the park.

• A first: the addict's son is found alive, but the identity of the child who was found dead in the fire is unknown.