Episode
Cold Case: Yo, Adrian
Overview
When a dying boxing referee makes a confession about a 1976 fight, the team re-opens the case in which an underdog fighter, arranged to fight against a much more qualified boxer, took a heavy beating in the match and died only moments afterwards.
Details
- Series
- Cold Case
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2005-01-16
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Yo, Adrian is Episode 12 in Season 2 of Cold Case. It aired on 2005-01-16. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 11: Blank Generation
The team re-opens the case of Matthew Adams, a teen-aged cult member who apparently committed suicide back in 1978, when his sister comes forth with new evidence about the deprogrammer her family hired to rescue her brother.
Episode 13: Time to Crime
After a murder weapon connected to the 1987 drive-by shooting of a little girl turns up, Det. Rush and her team re-open the case. The team slowly tracks back the gun's previous owners until the shocking original owner is finally revealed.
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