The team re-opens the 1989 murder of a young Russian opera star who defected to the United States. She and her family sought asylum at the police station where Nick Vera was stationed when he joined the force.

The team re-opens the case of a 12-year-old boy who died in 1969 when the retired detective who originally worked the case receives a new clue -- a toy rocket bearing the victim's name.

When a body is discovered in the trunk of a car, the team re-opens the 1981 case of a missing single mother who used to work at a car dealership.

The team re-opens the 1951 case of a marine who went missing and never reported for duty after his shore leave.

The team re-opens the 1978 case of a teenage roller skater who was found dead in a ravine

The team receives new evidence in a 1964 case, then thought to have been a hit-and-run. Now, a threatening letter addressed to the victim prompts Will and Kat to travel to Mississippi to re-investigate the death of a woman who was secretly involved in giving school supplies to black children.

The team re-opens the 1991 case of a young inner-city schoolteacher whose death was originally ruled as a carjacking-gone-wrong.

In the season opener, Will's former high school football buddy discovers memorabilia that sheds a new light on the 1973 murder of a college football star. The 1973 investigation concluded that the victim was killed on Friday night, but new evidence suggests he might have still been alive the morning of the big championship game.