Cold Case Files - Season 1 Episode 4 The Answer in the Box/Maternal Instinct
Answer in the Box
Alison Parrott was a runner. Not only was she was runner she was a great runner, So much so that she had the local media interested in her, So when she got a call from a photographer to take some pictures of her running she didn't think anything wrong with it. She left to go to her photo session and wasn't seen alive again. The police had a fellow runner as the lead suspect but nothing ever happened with that lead. A cold case detective named Vic Matanovic was going through some files 10 years later and came across the case. When the detective was looking for clues to solve the case the Answer is in the Box. Usually DNA is enough to prove a case but in this case the criminal who lured Alison to her death had a plan to lure the jury to believe in the lie he was about to tell.
Maternal Instinct
1981 a brother and sister fell victim to a heartless mother with no regard for life. 3 month old Seth Davis was rushed to the hospital because of insulin poisoning. He was left brain damaged. 5 months later his sister, Tenga Davis, is rushed to the hospital. There she dies of Caffeine poisoning. Even though the autopsy that was turned in by the M.E. stated cause of death was a homicide, the police treated this as an accident.
Their mother Mary Beth Davis moves on with her own life by moving to a different state. She starts a new family and forgets all about what happened back in her past. That is until 10 years later when Mary Beth gets a knock on her door by the cold case detectives which brings back her past as the detectives are there to prove a case of murder.
Year: 2006
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Documentary
Country: United States of America
Studio: A&E
Director:
Cast: Bill Kurtis
Crew: Laura Fleury (Executive Producer), Mike West (Producer), Michael T. Harvey (Executive Producer), Tania Lindsay (Producer), Mary Frances O'Conner (Producer)
First Air Date: Jan 01, 1999
Last Air date: Dec 31, 2006
Season: 5 Season
Episode: 128 Episode
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDb: 8.47/10 by 30.00 users
Popularity: 38.961
Language: English
Keyword : detective, forensic science, forensic, unsolved mystery, unsolved crime, unsolved murders, forensic technology
Episode
Hour 1 - Cold Case Files
The Boy and the Monster/Secret in the Cellar
The Texas Drifter/The Fingerprint File
The Answer in the Box/Maternal Instinct
The Hunter Homicides / Skulls in Stanley Park
Through the Eyes of a Child / Killer Next Door
One Night on the Bayou / Buckeye Misdemeanor
The Mark of Cain / Death on the Freeway
Terror in Telluride/Signature of a Killer
Diary Of A Serial Arsonist/The Lost Clue
Killer on the Strip/The Doll Murder
Murder Illustrated/Blood Relations
The Burning Secret/Justice Delayed
Man in the Shadows/The Hitchhiker
Reconstructing Murder/Fire Flicks
Killer in the County
Presumed Dead/The Tow Truck Killer
The Missing Informant/Man's Best Friend
The Tortured Truth/Portrait Of A Killer
Vanished
The Missing and the Dead
Silent Witness/Innocence Lost
Frozen in Time/Little Girl Lost
Family Secret/Blood Trail
Bodies In The Bay/Cold Hit