Tập
Cold Case Files: Episode 13
Tóm tắt
A 14-year-old boy is charged with the murder of his sister, but his public defender believes the police coerced the boy's confession and that the real killer is still on the loose. And two deteriorated medical examiner's slides, made in a murder investigation 16 years earlier, give police the evidence they need to reopen the cold case and bring the lead suspect to trial.
Chi tiết
- Phim bộ
- Cold Case Files
- Mùa
- Mùa 5
- Tập
- Tập 13
- Ngày phát sóng
- 2006-07-15
- Thời lượng
- 60 min
Thông tin tập
Episode 13 là tập 13 trong Season 5 của Cold Case Files. Tập này phát sóng ngày 2006-07-15. Thời lượng là 60 min.
Tập trước / tập sau
Tập 12
A district attorney uses a clever technique--a "John Doe indictment"--to give law enforcement officials the time they need to track down the Schoolgirl Rapist from Rochester, N. Y. And prosecutors reluctantly decide not to prosecute their lead suspect in the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl because they have only circumstantial evidence. But 12 years later, the cold case squad reopens the case, hoping DNA evidence will prove the supect's guilt.
Tập 14
A serial rapist seals his own fate when he sends a taunting letter to police, who use the DNA extracted from the saliva in the envelope's seal to track him down. And when a man is found dead in South Dakota, his head bashed in by a 50-pound rock, investigators go on a 20-year search for the killers--a man and woman who were part of a free-loving hippie group and are known only by the names "Outlaw" and "Inlaw."
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Tập 15
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Tập 10
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Tập 16
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Tập 9
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Tập 17
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Tập 8
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Tập 18
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Tập 7
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Tập 19
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