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19. Offender

A father pushes a registered sex offender off of a building and threatens to kill a different sex offender each day until the cold-case unit solves his son's 1987 rape and murder.

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The team reopens the 1987 rape and murder of 6-year-old Clayton Hathaway after his father Mitch, who was convicted of the crime, is released and pushes a sex offender from the roof of a building, vowing to systematically kill a new offender each day until his son's real killer is found. Song featured in the intro: " Bizarre Love Triangle ", by New Order. Song featured in the finale: " Never Surrender ", by Corey Hart.

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