Episode
Cold Case: The Hitchhiker
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Cold Case
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 2003-12-21
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
The Hitchhiker is Episode 10 in Season 1 of Cold Case. It aired on 2003-12-21. The runtime is 44 min.
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Episode 9: Sherry Darlin'
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 body is recovered, but the alleged murderer refuses to identify himself.
Episode 11: Hubris
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 Doubleday) in 1995, offers new information regarding the case that he hopes will clear his name. He believes the student's death is connected to a copycat murder of a prostitute. Rush investigates the woman who was killed and the men in her life in order to discover which one of them killed her.
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