A young girl tells Rush that she has been contacted by a man purporting to be her father, a story which causes the case of a murdered teenager who may also have been the girl's father to be reopened.
The file of an overweight, reclusive college freshman who died in a fraternity house fire is reopened after the girl's father discovers a photo of the girl being held down and forced to drink.
A murder from 1978 is re-opened after the mother of a slain boy discovers a letter that indicates his death was not a random, copycat killing.
The team probes the 1945 murder of an African-American ballplayer who was beaten to death with his own bat.
The team tries to discover why an elderly woman who died of natural causes had assumed the identity of a woman who had been committed to a mental facility in the 1950's and then disappeared.
The team goes after a dangerous gang leader after a recent shooting reconnects Lilly to the first case she ever worked.
The case of a young woman who died after her dot-com company failed is re-opened after a diary is discovered on the hard drive of a recycled computer.
The discovery of a pair of POW tags in an abandoned drug house is enough to warrant the reopening of a case from 1973 where the victim of a shooting had been a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Evidence in the 1965 death of a 4-year-old girl washes up on the New Jersey Shore, prompting the re-opening of her case.
The team discovers that an innocent man may have been wrongly convicted when they reopen the case of a popular neighborhood deli owner who was beaten to death.
The team receives a tip about a 1988 murder involving four high-school friends.
A small piece of a note is enough to reopen the case of a teen who supposedly committed suicide in 1994.
Lillian begs Lilly and the team to search for her daughter's killer when a newspaper story reports on a man pushing his wife down the stairs. The circumstances of that death seem eerily similar to her daughter's, and the same man was her escort to the 1968 debutante ball.
After several banks are robbed, clues surface that may assist the team in solving the murder of a bank teller.
Valens' past comes back to haunt him when the 1998 murder of a female drug mule is reopened.
Lilly and company use there expertise to solve a disturbed killers puzzle to save a little boy.
The sister of a murdered college tennis phenom brings Lilly new evidence that might answer some questions about what happened to her sister, Andi. Further investigation of the 1973 murder of the young female, Lilly discovers other evidence that leads her to suspect that it was the consequence of a high profile match wherein she beat the best male college player, Fritz.
The shooting of a local cabaret singer leaves behind evidence in the form of 38 slug, found set in a piece of prop-furniture by the theater owner. Lilly and Jeffries reinvestigate the 2002 murder case.
Lilly opens the oldest case of her career, the 1929 murder of Violet Holly. Holly is the great grandmother of a pregnant woman who discovers the unsolved case while doing some research on her family history.
A few days before his scheduled execution, a man pleads with Jeffries and Lilly to take another look at his 1994 case when he was convicted of murder. Jeffries is convinced of the man’s guilt until he finds out the investigating officer at the time is accused of hiding evidence in other cases, this raises some questions.
Lilly takes on a 1945 case involving a reporter who was demoted to writing insignificant advice columns after an invigorating era of covering Eleanor Roosevelt.
Lilly reopens a 1984 case that involved the shooting of a popular ER doctor as a result of a new witness that comes forward. A mentally ill homeless man was convicted of the crime based on circumstantial evidence and eventually died in prison.
When a debit card is being used that belongs to dead man that was killed a year ago, Lilly reopens the 2005 case. A popular drug counselor, Joseph Shaw, is murdered two days before he scheduled to testify against one of students.