The team reopens a the 1973 case of a murdered football player after new evidence surfaces that shows that he may have been killed later than originally thought.
Remains found in an oil drum at the Philadelphia are identified, by dog tags, as belonging to Jimmy Tully, a Marine who went AWOL while on leave in 1951, opening up a murder case for the first time. Among the witnesses and suspects are members of his unit, his sergeant, a beautiful girl and a jealous guy from a Navy bar that the victim visited while on leave. As usual, all of these people are still alive and in Philadelphia. In the end, the murderer confesses and Tully's family can be proud of him, finally.
A very successful brush salesman, very popular with the ladies on his route, went missing with no trace. His remains are found when a duck pond is drained; the team seeks to solve the 1967 murder. Fingerprints reveal the victim had a violent past, gave most of his earnings away, and had no personal life. Suspects from his route include a belligerent Vietnam vet with hoarder tendencies and a jealous, controlling husband.
When her son goes missing, a distraught mother comes to the Cold Case squad about her husband's death. Agreeing to testify against a mob boss had earned their being in the Witness Protection Program. When a chance glimpse at a track meet of a lower-level mobster panicked the witness, they fled the WPP and the husband disappeared. Mom found a death report on her son's computer matching her husband. The mob boss is set for trial in Providence, RI and they fear the son is seeking revenge.
In 1976, a smart honor student made a very poor choice in falling in and living with a notorious biker gang called "Jackals". Newly released from serving a 30-year prison sentence, her father finds a photo which had been secretly added to his belongings by a fellow inmate. The photo is of the father's then 17-year-old daughter standing by a biker wearing a Jackals biker jacket which had been taken shortly before her vicious murder. Photo in hand, the father comes to the team to reopen this closed file.
Detective Will Jeffries give fellow Detective Nick Vera a ride home. Will stops in a convenience store for milk as Nick had drank the last of Will's milk at work. Sitting in the car, Nick hears gunshots and races into the store to find the store owner dead and Will bleeding on the floor. The store owner, Pops, had helped Will go straight in his youth, so this was more than just a stop for milk, it was also a friendly hello to a valued friend. The team finds this is more than a simple robbery as young toughs feature into the crime.
Dr. Ramirez encourages a schizophrenic patient who calms himself by playing and relating to John Lennon music. This therapy raises the ire of a another Doctor who opposes her and to use more conventional drug therapy. Lilly and Scott track the patient down who was assumed her murderer.
In 1958, a real estate developer just recently married as was a pioneer of suburban communities of homes ({PUDs) for affordable-priced homes is murdered. The fact that his murder didn't happen where his body was found is a new development that reopens this closed case.
Gonzalo Luque and his cousin both had a promising career in baseball in Cuba. Both stow away in boats for Florida hoping to touch soil before they can be turned away or caught by authorities. Gonzalo makes it to shore but alas his cousin is caught by U.S. authorities and turned back to Cuba. His cousin eventually does make it to the states. Gonzalo has left a wife and son to pursue his baseball career which is going well when he turns up dead in a field, fatally injured with a baseball bat. The team are questioning his agent, his mistress, cousin and anyone who would ...
The Detectives investigate a case from 2005, where one of the two first female cadets admitted into the Philly Military Institute (PMI) body was discovered in a cemetery. Kate Butler tried to live up to her father's standards and prove that she had what it took to be one of the "GUYS." Kate befriends an Afro-American cadet (Keith Henderson) who needed a tutor for calculus and she needed someone to talk to. Someone attached Kate in the shower with a saber and her hand was sliced. Keith found her and tried to help her get back to her room and they couldn't get the ...
Lilly Rush manages to escape from the car after it plunges in the rive. She's taken to the doctor's office and continues to investigate the case with the rest of the team. We see flashbacks of Lilly's childhood and the moment when she first met her boss, John Stillman. As usual, the team solves the case.