Cold Case

A pregnant woman researching her family history realizes that her great-grandmother, Violet Holley, died in an unsolved murder. Rush tackles the 1929 case, her oldest to date, but she finds only a few notes revealing that underprivileged Violet had become pregnant by a wealthy man, Nick Bartleby.

When a corrupt policeman commits suicide, questions are raised about the guilt of a death-row inmate convicted of murdering a girl. As evidence that was misplaced during the original trial indicates that the wrong man was implicated, the detectives race to determine the real culprit before the convict is executed.

Rush reopens the 1945 case of the death of a female journalist at a Philadelphia newspaper. Upon learning that the victim left a note telling someone to meet her at the train station where she eventually died, Rush and the team investigate and discover that she was dating a man who claimed to be a Jew who escaped the Nazis and came to America.

When a new witness to the 1984 shooting of a respected emergency room physician comes forward, Rush reopens the case. The original suspect was a mentally ill homeless man who was convicted of the crime based on circumstantial evidence and who eventually died in prison.

[Season Finale] When a man's debit card is used one year after his death, Rush and the team reopen the 2005 case. During the investigation, Rush is strangely drawn to the victim, Joseph Shaw, a popular drug counselor who was killed two days before he was set to testify against one of his students.

In the fourth season premiere, a 1995 case involving two teenage boys who committed suicide after going on a murderous rampage at a local mall is reopened when evidence shows there may have been a third shooter. Rush and the team notice that the third shooter managed to leave the crime scene by pretending to be a survivor.