Episode
Cold Case: Lonely Hearts
Overview
A homely 33-year-old woman is gunned down in an alley in 1989 and her unsolved murder is reinvestigated when a tape of the victim, made for a dating service, turns up in a suicide victim's apartment. Apparently, it was what the man was watching when he killed himself. Also, Vera moves into an apartment of his own
Details
- Series
- Cold Case
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 2006-11-19
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Lonely Hearts is Episode 9 in Season 4 of Cold Case. It aired on 2006-11-19. The runtime is 45 min.
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