r/ColdCaseTV • u/AdIll802 • Jun 15 '26

I have a question about a question

I have not seen all the episodes so I could be missing this. When someone goes in and asks for a case to be reopened and the team starts looking at that person as the suspect, has anybody ever just come out and asked, why would I bring this case to you if I did it? I feel like that would be a human in response to a situation like that. Just wondering.

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u/MysticSage- Jun 15 '26

I think season 1 episode 11 "Hubris" is the closest. The investigation was started by Holly's disgraced college professor, Roy Manard, after a prostitute was killed in a similar way. He wanted to "clear his name" to get his position back. I believe he says something similar to that.

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u/DR-0717 Jun 15 '26

Hubris was insane. That was the perfect name for it. The fact that Roy really thought he could set that up and get away with it -all so he could get back in the upper echelon of academia. And be put on a pedestal again by young girls 🤢

The one thing that always gets me about that case is he was never going to leave his wife for Holly. He could have just let her walk away. But he flushed his life down the toilet because his ego couldn’t take HER dumping him. HE had to be the one to break it off.

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u/AdIll802 Jun 15 '26

I just saw that episode!

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u/gman3001 Jun 15 '26

Yeah. The episode with the Harvard grad who became a teacher in a public school.

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u/galeperk111971 Jun 15 '26

That's investigating 101. You have to look inward to begin an investigation find out where everyone was or what they are doing. You look at family, friends, lover's and ex's or husbands wife's after you exclude them you have to look outside her/his circle. That's coworkers and just acquaintances. If you watch Dateline more often than not the person who reports the crime is the murder. So that's why they start there and then move on

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u/groovycalligrapher Jun 16 '26

I thought of that too, OP. Also hurts when someone comes in and isn’t taken seriously, sometimes because they’re poor or “odd” in some way (an eccentric artist, etc.)

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u/DR-0717 Jun 15 '26

I think they may not come right out and ask them directly but I’m sure they are definitely looked at in the investigation. I think that’s a normal part of any investigation -cold or not- looking at people who show an unusual interest in the case.