Line #1 RippedFromTheHeadlines/ColdCase


1	''Series/ColdCase'' episodes RippedFromTheHeadlines.
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4	[[folder:Season 1]]
5	* 1x01 "Look Again" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Martha_Moxley Murder of Martha Moxley]]
6	* 1x03 "Our Boy is Back" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Graves Troy Graves]], ''the Center City Rapist''
7	* 1x05 "The Runner" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_v._Abu-Jamal Murder of Daniel Faulkner]]
8	* 1x06 "Love Conquers Al" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Zamora Murder of Adrianne Jones]]
9	* 1x07 "A Time to Hate" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots the Stonewall Riots]]
10	* 1x14 "The Boy in the Box" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Joseph_Augustus_Zarelli The Boy in the Box]]
11	* 1x15 "Disco Inferno" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Station_nightclub_fire the Station nightclub fire]]
12	* 1x16 "Volunteers" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Collective the Jane Collective]]
13	* 1x17 "The Lost Soul of Herman Lester" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Ben_Wilson Murder of Ben Wilson]]
14	* 1x19 "Late Returns" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Chandra_Levy Murder of Chandra Levy]]
15	* 1x21 "Maternal Instincts" -- [[https://people.com/crime/man-found-guilty-of-1982-ax-murder-of-his-wife-case-went-unsolved-for-nearly-40-years/ Murder of Cathleen Krauseneck]]
16	* 1x23 "Lovers Lane" -- [[https://www.crimelibrary.org/criminal_mind/sexual_assault/thomas_soria/1.html Murder of Krystal Dawn Steadman]] [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer Zodiac Killer]]
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19	[[folder:Season 2]]
20	* 2x06 "The Sleepover" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Shanda_Sharer Murder of Shanda Shearer]]
21	* 2x08 "Mind Hunters" and 2x23 "The Woods" -- the series first SerialKiller is a [[CompositeCharacter composite]] of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hansen Robert Hansen]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Kemper Edmund Kemper]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Albright Charles Albright]]
22	* 2x11 "Blank Generation" -- the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown Jonestown]] mass murder-suicide
23	* 2x16 "Revenge" -- the kidnapping of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Stayner Steven Stayner]]
24	* 2x17 "Schadenfreude" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Sheppard Murder of Marilyn Reese Sheppard]]
25	* 2x19 "Strange Fruit" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till Murder of Emmett Till]]
26	* 2x21 "Creatures of the Night" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Eugene_Watts Carl Eugene Watts]], ''The Sunday Morning Slasher''
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29	[[folder:Season 3]]
30	* 3x13 "Debut" -- the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Peterson Drew Peterson]] case, [[InvertedTrope inverted]] [[spoiler:(instead of being found guilty of the second murder because of similarities to the first, the second murder turns out to be an accident and the perp is found guilty of the first)]]
31	* 3x16 "One Night"-- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Gene_Bell Larry Gene Bell]] also abducted two kids, forced one to write a last will and testament, and insisted on tormenting the parents and police.
32	* 3x21 "The Hen House" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfriede_Rinkel Elfriede Rinkel]]
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35	[[folder:Season 4]]
36	* 4x01 "Rampage" -- the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre Columbine High School Massacre]]
37	* 4x09 "Lonely Hearts" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Fernandez_and_Martha_Beck Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck]], ''The Lonely Hearts Killers''
38	* 4x13 "Blackout" -- [[https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2019/08/16/florence-unger-murder-michigan-huntington-woods/2023133001/ Murder of Florence Unger]]
39	* 4x15 "Blood on the Tracks" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Jane_Olson Sarah Jane Olson]] and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Village_townhouse_explosion Greenwich Village townhouse explosion]]
40	* 4x23 "The Good Death" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Pretty Diane Pretty]]
41	* 4x24 "Stalker" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ture_Jr.# Joe Ture]]
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44	[[folder:Season 5]]
45	* 5x01 "Thrill Kill" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Memphis_Three The West Memphis Three]] and several other [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_confession#United_States false confession cases]]
46	* 5x08 "It Takes a Village" -- the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_murders_of_1979%E2%80%931981 Atlanta Child Murders]]
47	* 5x12 "Sabotage" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski Ted Kaczynski]], ''Unabomber''
48	* 5x15 "The Road" -- [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jamelske John Jamelske]]. The key differences being that Jamelske eventually released his victims, whereas his TV counterpart didn't rape them as he did, but still ultimately left them to die.
49	* 5x18 "Ghost of My Child" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Girl_Lost:_The_Delimar_Vera_Story Kidnapping of Delimar Vera]]
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52	[[folder:Season 6]]
53	* 6x03 "Wednesday's Women" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Liuzzo Murder of Viola Liuzzo]]
54	* 6x05 "Shore Leave" -- [[https://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/almuns.htm Disappearance of Andrew Muns]]
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57	[[folder:Season 7]]
58	* 7x03 "Jurisprudence" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal the "Kids for Cash" scandal]]
59	* 7x17 "Flashover" -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Todd_Willingham Cameron Todd Willingham]]
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62	[[folder:Miscellaneous]]
63	* Even when not based on specific cases, many other episodes reference the hot-button social issues of the day--the AIDS crisis of the early-80s ("It's Raining Men"), the stock market boom of the mid-80s ("Greed"), the dot.com boom of the late-90's ("Start Up"), etc. The oldest case revisited ("Torn") is the murder of an activist for women's suffrage in 1919.
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