Episode
Cold Case: Maternal Instincts
Overview
The 1989 case of a woman murdered in front of her 3-year-old son is re-opened. A psychologist asks Det. Rush to look into the case again when the son, now a 17-year-old teen, suffers from intense nightmares and troubled behavior.
Details
- Series
- Cold Case
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 2004-04-25
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Maternal Instincts is Episode 21 in Season 1 of Cold Case. It aired on 2004-04-25. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 20: Greed
The team reopens the 1985 case of a wealthy stock broker. At the time it was deemed that Charles Danville was killed when someone attempted to steal his car, but new evidence suggests that he may, in fact, have been murdered.
Episode 22: The Plan
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. Back at the office, Valens searches for Elisa after she goes missing.
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