EPISODE

3. Bad Night

Lilly reopens a 1978 case in which a young man was stabbed to death outside a theater where the slasher flick "Halloween" was playing. At the time, the unsolved murder was thought to have been committed by a copycat killer influenced by the film. But when the victim's mother comes forth with new evidence, Lilly doesn't buy the copycat angle. Shortly before the man died, he proposed to a friend who was paralyzed. His mother believes that proposal led to his death.

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The team reopens the 1978 murder of Angus Bistrong, a 21-year-old college student who was stabbed to death and his body left in front of a movie theater after his mother finds a letter suggesting that his death wasn't random. The team discovers that many of his friends blamed him for a car accident that left their other friend disabled. Song featured in the intro: "American Girl", by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Song featured in the finale: " Dream On ", by Aerosmith.

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