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19. Cherry Red

The detectives try to figure out a mystery after an elderly woman dies in a fire. The mystery deepens when the young woman who has been left some of the dead woman's estate is murdered. The case takes them to a state public administrator (Dennis Christopher) who has invented a new form of grave-robbing.

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Goren and Eames investigate the apparent accidental death of Kate Finoff ( Liz Morton ), a young woman who had been left only a small item from the estate of an elderly woman she cared. This leads them to a state public administrator Roger Coffman (Dennis Christopher). He has been plundering the estates of people who had died without leaving a will to indulge his passion for vintage muscle cars cuminating in the purchase of valuable a red Ferreari for which he killed the eldery woman. When Roger's ailing and selfish father ( Paul Dooley ) caught on to his son's activities, he murdered Kate to keep his son out of jail.

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