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Waking the Dead

The Cold Case investigators are faced with the challenge of four unsolved crimes which have lain dormant for years.
IMDb 7.920018 episodesTV-14
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Burn Out Part 1
    June 18, 2001
    52min
    TV-14
    When Detective Superintendent Boyd encounters a woman unable to accept the explanation of her father's death, he takes on the case.
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  2. S1 E2 - Burn Out Part 2
    June 19, 2001
    52min
    TV-14
    A newly discovered note seems to set the seal on a suicide verdict, but when Boyd and the team exhume Perry Coleman's body, DNA tests reveal some disturbing facts.
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  3. S1 E3 - The Blind Beggar Part 1
    June 25, 2001
    52min
    TV-14
    When a skeleton is discovered in a Church crypt Boyd and his team suspect it was never meant to be found. The team interview the local community and awaken deeply hidden family secrets that force Boyd to look at his own past.
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  4. S1 E4 - The Blind Beggar Part 2
    June 26, 2001
    52min
    TV-14
    Frankie learns that the skeleton and a priest may be related as both show symptoms of Huntington's Chorea. The hunt is on for the killer and the victim's mother. Meanwhile, the investigation opens old wounds for Boyd, still in despair over the disappearance of his own son.
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  5. S1 E5 - A Simple Sacrifice Part 1
    July 2, 2001
    50min
    TV-14
    The Cold Case Squad are called in when new evidence emerges in the case of a woman who was convicted of double murder on the basis of her own confession 25 years ago.
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  6. S1 E6 - A Simple Sacrifice Part 2
    July 3, 2001
    51min
    TV-14
    Boyd now doubts that Annie Keel really committed the murders, so why did she confess and what, and what happened to her son who was present on the night in 1975 when the crimes took place?
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  7. S1 E7 - Every Breath You Take Part 1
    July 9, 2001
    52min
    TV-14
    When the body of a policewoman missing for a year is pulled from the Thames, Boyd and the team discover that she was being followed by two stalkers.
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  8. S1 E8 - Every Breath You Take Part 2
    July 10, 2001
    52min
    TV-14
    Boyd and the team track down murdered police officer Debbie's married lover, but he denies killing her. Meanwhile, stalker Christopher Redford is ready to confess to the murder, but Grace is not convinced he's the guilty man.
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Content advisory
Violencealcohol usesmokingfoul languagesexual content
Subtitles
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Directors
Edward BennettRobert KnightsRobert Del MaestroGary Love
Producers
Joy Spink
Cast
Trevor EveSue JohnstonClaire GooseHolly Aird
Studio
BBC America
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