Episode
Cold Case: The Badlands
Overview
Lilly returns to her last case before joining the Cold Case Squad as she re-investigates the brutal triple homicide of a restaurant owner and his family, murdered in the restaurant bathroom in 2003. Also the other team member have personal reasons to closing the case; Jeffries grew up in the predominantly black neighborhood while Vera was the one assigned to the case when Det. Rush left.
Details
- Series
- Cold Case
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 1
- Air date
- 2004-10-03
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
The Badlands is Episode 1 in Season 2 of Cold Case. It aired on 2004-10-03. The runtime is 45 min.
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