Episode
Cold Case: Who's Your Daddy
Overview
Det. Rush investigates the 1991 double murder of married illegal immigrants from Cambodia who were shot to death in their apartment and found by their 6-year old daughter. The now-teenage girl brings the case to Lilly after she discovers a bracelet once owned by her mother is for sale on the internet. The probe reveals that the parents had dark secrets unknown to their daughter.
Details
- Series
- Cold Case
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2004-10-31
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Who's Your Daddy is Episode 5 in Season 2 of Cold Case. It aired on 2004-10-31. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 4: The House
When human remains are found outside a former state prison, the team re-opens the 1968 case of a dead inmate, murdered on the night Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Concert was broadcast to prisons throughout the country. However, when it's revealed that the bones don't belong to the person everyone had assumed, the team must start the probe anew by first identifying who the victim was.
Episode 6: The Sleepover
Lilly reopens a 1990 murder case, in which a prep-school girl was found dead in a local swimming hole, after a present-day victim with similar markings is discovered at the same place. The investigation reveals that the victim of the earlier crime was routinely tormented by a trio of classmates who invited her to a sleepover the night she was killed.
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Episode 2: Factory Girls
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Episode 8: Red Glare
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