Cold Case (season 2)

A 2003 triple homicide case that Vera and Lily investigated a year ago is investigated when the prime suspect, a former gang member, procures a viable alibi, and the team must reopen the case in order to find the true killer of the owners of a popular diner and their employee for the sake of their only daughter, who is still struggling with her parent's deaths.

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 young teenage girl who ran away from home was found dead. It is discovered that the young woman was transgender.

When a human skeleton in a tattered prison uniform is discovered in a sinkhole outside a former state penitentiary, the team reinvestigates the 1968 murder of an inmate who had attempted to escape the prison twice before his death.

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 illegal 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, hoping to find peace before his upcoming wedding, asks the team to reopen the 1983 murder of his then-boyfriend.

The 1953 murder of a schoolteacher who may have been a communist sympathizer is reopened at the request of the victim's youngest son, who has become suicidal because of survivor guilt.

The team begins the hunt for a serial killer when the reinvestigation of a woman's disappearance in 1985 leads to the discovery of eight more victims, all of whom were found decapitated.

The team reinvestigates the unsolved 2000 murder of a prominent and ambitious assistant district attorney from New Haven, CT when new evidence links him to a major political 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 case of a young girl killed in a drive-by shooting in 1987 is reopened when the long-lost murder weapon is turned in as part of a gun buyback program, and the team begins the daunting task of tracing the gun back to its previous owners to find the original shooter.

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 suspect in the murder.

When drawings depicting the death of a mentally disabled teenager 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 guilt-stricken 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 is reopened when the victim's sister asserts she may have been accosted by a group of college students the night she died.

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, since he discovered his body when he was 12.

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 races against time to find a connection between the 1977 murder of a hotel doorman and a serial killer about to be released from prison in New Jersey as part of a plea bargain.

When an old truck containing human bones is pulled from the Delaware River, the team re-opens the case, linking the truck to a Prohibition-era bootlegger and believing the remains may be those of a woman who went missing in 1932.

• No arrest, as the death of the victim was due to a vehicular accident.

The discovery of nine human skulls leads the team back to the serial killer George Marks, whom they were unable to incriminate months earlier and, as the detectives reinvestigate his mother's 1972 murder, he emerges from hiding to face Det. Rush one-on-one.