Cold Case

Rush and the team to reopen a 1976 case involving an overmatched fighter who died moments after suffering a terrible beating in a bout that should have been stopped. As the detectives investigate why the underdog boxer was essentially allowed to die in the ring, they discover several people with solid motives.

The 1987 drive-by shooting death of a little girl, the innocent victim of what was assumed to be a gang retaliation attack, is reopened after the murder weapon suddenly turns up as part of the city's gun recovery program. Rush and the team discover the gun has had multiple owners, all of whom were affected in some way by its possession.

Rush and the team investigate the 1969 strangulation murder of 19-year-old Ellie McCormick, whose body was discovered in her boyfriend, Warren's, apartment the day he fled to Canada to avoid fighting in Vietnam. Upon Warren's recent return to attend his father's funeral, he is immediately questioned.

The death of a mentally handicapped teenaged boy is reinvestigated when new evidence reveals the teen may have been murdered. Through the course of the investigation, Rush and the team discover that the boy was bullied by local jocks, and a false sexual-harassment claim was filed against him.

The detectives investigate the cold case of a murdered pedophile whose corpse was discovered a few months after the body of a kidnapped boy was found. The young boy was taken from a department store and found dead a month later. The detectives learn that the ransom drop went afoul and the kidnapper sold the boy to a pedophile.

Rush and the team to reopen the supposedly solved 1982 murder case of Lindsay Chase. Her husband, Dr. Stephen Chase, was convicted of her murder and has spent the last 23 years in prison, insisting he's innocent. When the detectives discover that Lindsay was involved with manufacturing illegal drugs--something her husband didn't even know about.