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- Vancouver, B.C.: The Red Wagon - one specialty is Pulled Pork Pancakes with Jack Daniels maple syrup. Summerville, SC: Perfectly Franks serves hot dogs with toppings you won't find anywhere else - among which are blue cheese coleslaw, or pulled pork, or peanut butter and banana (that's the Elvis, of course). NYC: Mama's Food Shop whose specialties are a unique fried chicken and peach cobbler.
- Toronto police authorities investigate an airport cargo theft ring at Pearson Airport.
- 1999– 41mTV-147.6 (19)TV EpisodeA mother's worst nightmare: Did I leave my child "In the Care of a Killer"? It was 1990 in Concordia, Missouri; three-year-old Billy dies at the babysitter's after a reported fall down the stairs; it is judged to be an accidental death. When a second child dies in her care 8 years later, the first death is re-examined--including exhuming Billy's body and a second autopsy. The second segment is set in Claremore, Oklahoma. A missing person report in 1986 gets nowhere; his abandoned car is in a parking lot; locals remember his flashing a wad of cash in a bar and leaving with Kent HIll. Though suspicious, police have no body UNTIL 4 months later when a woman hires a team of divers to try to find an antique car her brother had pushed into a lake before going off to war. The jean-clad bones they find are buried as a John Doe; seven years later an estranged girlfriend of Hill's provides a scenario, and the bones are exhumed, identified by DNA, and Frank Ross' killer is brought to justice.
- "A Map to Murder": A newspaper story about a murdered prostitute prompts a perpetrator's letter, including a map to another body. Police get the home address where the map was downloaded and find evidence of torture and murder in the basement.
- 1993–199943mTV-148.2 (102)TV EpisodeA skeleton of a young woman is discovered, leading to the solution of a long-forgotten bank robbery. Finding her killer is more difficult when one suspect is dead and the other two accuse each other. Meanwhile, Gee lays down the law about detectives on the same shift being romantically involved. Which is more important, relations with police partners or a lover?
- 1993–199943mTV-148.4 (107)TV EpisodeInvestigation continues on the case of the newborn baby found buried behind a motel. The teen mother's parents employ a P.I. to frighten her into accusing her boyfriend. Police and prosecutors proceed to the Grand Jury, hoping to pressure one of the young parents to make a deal by letting them experience jail time. It works!
- "The Bitemark": In 1989. a 13-year-old, Justin Wiles, is missing in the Tulsa area, thought to be a runaway. When a dismembered body is found in Lake Bixhoma, he is ID'd because of surgical scars. The case will not be solved for more than a decade. A forensic odontologist links a bite mark on a suspect's arm with the victim's exhumed body to secure a conviction. "Justice for Eglena": A naked body is discovered at the site of a church-sponsored fiesta at Seguin, Texas. An officer finds her clothing in a nearby storm drain, but traces of blood must wait a decade for DNA analysis to link victim and perpetrator. The Texas Rangers live up to their reputation in this cold case, the first they have been assigned.
- The case of a baseball player beaten to death with his own bat is reopened, and it's discovered that he had many enemies, and that his white girlfriend sparked even more racism and prejudice towards him.
- The team reopen the 1980's case of a wealthy corporate stockbroker who set up a Ponzi scheme and left many colleagues broke when it crashed, after which he was murdered in an apparent carjacking.
- The team investigates the murder of a school teacher in 1953 whose case wasn't very well investigated since he believed in integration.
- A man calls Detective Lilly Rush to confess that he murdered his grandmother in 1989 and buried her in the basement of his old house.
- In the nineties, business school graduates Scott and Amy start up a computer health care business called Lionstaff, but Amy dies of a heart attack soon after and Lilly reopens the case.
- The 1939 case of a young lady living in a boarding house for "women of color" is reopened and Rush tries to solve it for Sadie's daughter, who has been ashamed of her own heritage since the murder.
- The Cold Case team reopens a 1990's murder of a shy, nerdy twelve-year-old who had a sleepover at a mentally disturbed rich girl's house. They discover quickly that something sinister happened that night, but what was it?
- Two decaying skeletons are discovered in an old building. Rush and the team learn that they were two hippies working for an underground group who were murdered in 1969.
- Autopsy reveals that the death of a recent arrival from Europe was caused by a burst baggie he had swallowed, one of over 70 bags of heroin found in his stomach. Luther Mahoney MUST be involved somehow! Munch gets a tip from a con that a body is buried under the track at Pimlico, but eventually finds the "dead" man. The Mahoney problem is solved.
- 1993–199944mTV-147.5 (99)TV EpisodeAfter being shot at, a wealthy doctor shoots an intruder in his garage. Homicide determines the body is his sister-in-law. Two sets of fingerprints are found on her gun; the money trail (gambling debts, forgeries, insurance) leads to an unlikely conspiracy.
- 1993–199944mTV-148.6 (112)TV EpisodeEven though the young mother of the suffocated newborn has made a deal to testify, her boyfriend is convinced she will not wrongfully accuse him--because of their love. Falcone tries to talk sense to him, but he remains convinced she will not betray him. He is shocked at the turn of events in court.
- 1993–199944mTV-147.8 (110)TV EpisodeA popular author of thrillers is missing; his wife has a video in which he warns that his agent may kill him. Discovering that he had a mistress and finding his car at the airport, she is ignored UNTIL the mistress reports him missing as well. No body, no weapon... can the two probable killers be charged?
- "The Good Samaritan " refers to a helpful neighbor, Horst Eppenbach, who is shot and killed by the rapist of his neighbor when he comes to check on her. The only clue? A semen sample with no suspect. This 1989 case in New York goes cold until another reported rape in 2001 in Colorado produces a matching sample. NY detectives must travel to Junction City, KS and two little towns in Colorado to catch a killer. In the second segment, a "Gun Shy" woman in Santa Clara, California, is shot in what her husband calls an accident. Thanks to a victim support group, a persistent brother and a detective's study of crime photos which allows reconstruction of the incident, justice is done after more than a dozen years.
- The Detectives try and solve the case of a woman who died after being in a coma for 18 years.
- The Cold Case team investigates a serial bomber who seems to be targeting people in no particular pattern, but then they discover the bomber may be killing out of grief and loss.
- A kind and friendly brush salesman's case is reopened from the 1960's after his remains are discovered in a pond. The Cold Case team learn that he was trying to battle his own troubled past.
- A grieving woman seeks help from the Cold Case team regarding the death of her husband. He and the family were living under secret aliases since he had agreed to testify against a mob boss.
- The case of a murdered psychiatrist is reopened, and the Cold Case team learn she was trying to find other means of therapy for her patients besides just pills and drugs.
- A real-estate developer's body is discovered, and it turns out he was the creator of a planned suburban community who was killed in the late 1950's.
- A pool hustler is killed on the same day as President Kennedy in 1963.
- Unusual forensic experts helped solve the 2004 murder of Charlene Hummert: forensic linguists, soil analysts, photometrics, and computer recovery. Even without being allowed to know the man had confessed to the murder, the jury convicted him on the evidence.
- When a young mother disappears, leaving her infant at home alone, her husband is the main suspect. Her burned body is later found. When the killer goes to court, the forensic science of a tree's "fingerprint" is used for the first time in the US.
- 1999– 44mTV-147.0 (14)TV EpisodeA rape-robbery in Lookingglass, Oregon was solved when one of the perps bragged about his involvement, but his partner disappeared--for 23 years! Four retired lawmen (nicknamed the "Cold Case Cowboys") trace a rendezvous with murder with the help of a convict. In the second segment, the police have a suspect: a jealous coworker with a motive, blood evidence in his home, but still cannot make a case until further DNA technology develops a few years later.
- Chad Choice, an 8-year-old boy, is kidnapped from his home in Tyler, Texas. Two ransom notes follow but no one shows up for the money. Chad's parents receive a package containing his skull! Five years later, various bones are sent to jail inmates with demands to keep quiet or else. Can one of them find leniency by revealing Chad's burial place?
- When three young women and a baby go missing, police fear a serial killer is at work in Kansas. When ties are found to an embezzler paroled from Missouri, surveillance begins. Links to sadomasochism, forgery and finally theft of sex toys provide probable cause for a search warrant of his properties and storage facilities. The finds astound authorities in both Kansas and Missouri, and shock a teen "niece" in Illinois.
- "Murder Checks In": Three raped women's bodies, starting with Patricia Lange, are found in Iowa hotels. Police realize they must find a serial killer. An excessive number of seminal stains on bedspreads slows the ID by DNA; since there was no forced entry, they look for men who might have had passkeys. "Killer in the City": A 64-year-old woman, Rosemary Pascente, living in the Bronx was stabbed 39 times. There are no fingerprints or fluids from the killer in the apartment, but blood is found in the hall. The CODIS database helps officers zero in on a felon who confesses, but unsuccessfully claims that he acted in self-defense.
- Kenda encounters one of the most horrendous crime scenes of his career, and he's led to the most unexpected of killers.A young soldier dies from a bullet to the neck from an apparent suicide, and the case soon spins in a whole new direction.
- 1993–200145mTV-PG7.1 (84)TV EpisodeMark gets wrapped up in the world of high fashion and designer drugs while tracking down the person responsible for planting a bomb that killed his friend on his wedding day.
- A priest listens to the confession of a killer, but won't reveal who the killer is due to confidentiality and becomes the prime suspect himself. Mark decides to go undercover to help clear the priest's name.
- To investigate a possible murder, Dr. Sloan goes into a house of roommates who are monitored 24 hours a day by cameras for a national television show.
- The head pediatric nurse turns out to be an ex-prostitute whose former madam is murdered after declaring her intentions to publish a tell-all book. The suspect nurse is defended by the lawyer and murderer Darren Worthy (David Dukes).
- Dr. Sloan investigates the demise of a television star who may have died because of compulsive dieting.
- Someone kills a medical student, drains his blood and stores the corpse in the Community General morgue.
- Mark discovers that an impassioned love affair between a nurse and a 17-year-old hospital worker may be the motive for murder.
- A girl is found with a broken rib which punctured her lung and 26 belt buckle marks on her body. Pembleton and Bayliss question the mother and her live-in boyfriend after a social worker confirms abuse suspicions. Kellerman is exonerated by the Grand Jury but still feels tainted by suspicion. Bayliss reveals his own childhood abuse to Pembleton.
- 1993–199945mTV-148.3 (144)TV EpisodeAn Asian store owner, a war hero, tried to forbid dope dealers from operating outside his store. His killing leads detectives to Mahoney--again he is too "clean" to catch. Mahoney's parting shot to Kellerman throws the detective into a tailspin of depression. Lewis, his partner, follows up and tries to prevent another partner's suicide.
- Munch's high school love interest, Helen Rosenthal, is raped and murdered, leaving Munch and Kellerman trying to solve the case. Grief and 1960's nostalgia engulf Munch, and meanwhile he connects with Helen's mourning daughter.
- A white bus driver is beaten to death after he drives into a West Indian woman. In a nearby alley, a young black man is also found beaten to death. Racial tensions divide the Homicide squad as well as the city of Baltimore, but the true causes are not what they seem.
- 1993–199945mTV-147.7 (117)TV EpisodeFelton's murder investigation involves the whole squad plus Falsone from Auto and Gharty from IID (Felton had been undercover). Actually, Howard and Russert are shut out because of their personal involvement with Felton. Gharty and Falsone discover they have both had the same snitch and hone in on his possible role in the murder.
- 1993–199945mTV-147.8 (139)TV EpisodeSurvivors discuss, in a grief-support group, the circumstances of three murders one Saturday night in Baltimore: a girl strangled in an alley on her 16th birthday, a mother who dies as the victim of a carjacker who drives off with her 3-year-old daughter, and a man who was attacked in the Waterfront Bar in the presence of several uncooperative witnesses. One of the cases remains unsolved.
- Two bombings near Valentine's Day result in two deaths with no apparent connections. Brodie finds a way to get a confession from a drug dealer who conned a victim into playing Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun. The Pembletons' marriage seems to be disintegrating in spite of therapy. Lewis and Cox wait outside an office where a third bomb has been delivered.
- When a police officer is found shot to death, Elizabeth Wu writes an article praising his dedication to the job. An informer calls her with a contradiction: the cop was shot when he demanded his money back in a dope deal. Her source later reveals that he was the shooter but claims self-defense. Meanwhile Kellerman's rogue brothers show up and he winds up in a jail cell with them. Lewis and Julianna to the rescue.
- Both cases are in Miami, FL. At a housing area called "The Grove," fifteen shots are fired at a car: three of the four men inside are shot, one fatally. Sgt. Joe Schillaci is tasked with solving this case; he decides to "force" the drug dealers in the area to help, by turning up the heat in the area. Tips flood in! In "Showstopper," Det. Emillano Tamayo and his rookie partner Ruggerio are assigned to a case of the death of a local singer. Robbery seems to be the motive; even his car is gone. The only clue? A missing cell phone which has been used since the murder. Finding it will lead to the killer.