Episode
Cold Case: Knuckle Up
Overview
Lilly investigates the murder of a 17-year-old prep-school student who disappeared in early 2006 and whose body is found stuffed in an oil drum outside an abandoned warehouse in a drug-infested part of the city. Also, Vera pays a parking ticket for his neighbor and later asks her out on a date.
Details
- Series
- Cold Case
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2007-01-07
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Knuckle Up is Episode 12 in Season 4 of Cold Case. It aired on 2007-01-07. The runtime is 44 min.
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Episode 11: The Red and the Blue
Lilly and Valens travel to Nashville and Knoxville to investigate the 2000 murder of a country-music singer who was gunned down outside of a Philadelphia bar where he and his band had recently played. The unsolved case is reopened when the gun used in the homicide turns up.
Episode 13: Blackout
Lilly investigates the 1996 murder of a wealthy divorced woman who was found dead in her ex-husband's indoor swimming pool. The original investigation ruled the death accidental, but new evidence suggests it was a homicide.
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Episode 6: Static
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