As others say, Cold Case does often exaggerate how quickly cases are solved and the probability they could be ever solved. However if you put that aside, this is an excellent episode. It is also extremely distressing, and should come with a viewer warning. However it is a story that should be told - and it does need to be told in detail to convey how horrific domestic violence is. I've read of similar events happening to real life families. The plot: A little girl's body is found on a river bank after 40 years, and she wasn't even reported missing - she was that badly neglected and abused. Gradually the story unfolds - the girl suffered bad fractures when she was alive. The girl had a twin sister who was adopted out after her mother abandoned her in a church. The abandoned girl had a necklace that connected her to a policeman who at first is suspected of being the girl's killer. The girls' actual father was also a policeman and a colleague of the first man. The father was a horrific abuser of his wife and daughters. The wife and daughters escaped to a shelter but were tracked down and lured back by the husband, who killed one of the daughters by throwing her off a bridge. It's a well paced episode and the actress who plays the mother gives a great performance as a woman who has nowhere else to go, in the 1960s when sadly some people turned a blind eye to battered woman and children.
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