Cold Cases 9 Law & Order episodes
Old crimes reopened years later, including murders with no body and exhumations.
- Season 2 · Episode 7
In Memory Of
Workers renovating a brownstone find a child’s skeleton, and a 30-year-old missing-person case comes back to life.
- Season 2 · Episode 11
His Hour Upon the Stage
A body in a tuxedo, frozen for five years, revives the disappearance of a Broadway producer on the eve of his big hit.
- Season 6 · Episode 11
Corpus Delicti
A dead show horse leads detectives to a horse dealer who preys on wealthy widows, and McCoy tries to convict him of killing a woman whose body has never been found.
- Season 7 · Episode 10
Legacy
A professional hit man’s near miss on a T-shirt printer leads to the grandmother who hired him, and to her son’s death five years earlier.
- Season 9 · Episode 11
Ramparts
Police divers looking for a gun in the Hudson find a 1960s VW bus with a skeleton inside, and the 30-year-old murder of a campus radical turns out to involve an undercover police unit.
- Season 11 · Episode 7
Amends
Pushed to raise her squad’s clearance rate, Van Buren has Briscoe and Green reopen the 1981 killing of a 16-year-old girl, and the case leads to an ambassador’s son and a cover-up by Briscoe’s old boss.
- Season 14 · Episode 17
Hands Free
Body parts in East Village garbage lead to the victim’s supposedly deaf neighbor, who turns out to be Eli Madison, a wealthy heir long suspected in his wife’s disappearance, and when a jury acquits him, McCoy charges him with his wife’s murder.
- Season 15 · Episode 23
In God We Trust
A revolver set off by the heat of an arson fire leads to a racially motivated murder from 1996, and the confessed killer, now a devout Christian, asks the court to dismiss the case in the interest of justice.
- Season 16 · Episode 3
Ghosts
A gunman’s dying words reopen the ten-year-old murder of a 12-year-old model, a case Fontana always pinned on her father, and McCoy defies Branch’s caution to try the new suspect.