Article: 'Cold Case' works best keeping eye on the past

TODAYTurning back the clock builds the drama on "Cold Case." Executive producer and creator Meredith Stiehm cites an example: In the sixth episode of the first season, Detective Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris) investigated a murder case from the 1960s, one related to gay- bashing.

"And that's the one we still hold up as the one to emulate, the one that really works and had the effect that we wanted for the show," Stiehm said. "It was a story that couldn't have been told back then (in the 1960s) because we could tell it now in hindsight because we have terms like 'gay-bashing.' And I think the past to present, usually with the cases that are much older, it works much better. You really feel how ...

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