Cold Case

60 seconds to air!

Where's America's sweetheart?

Everett.

Where's Everett?Has anyone seen Everett?

Keep your pants on,Kravet.I'm right here.

60 seconds till we go live.

Well,you think I wake up looking like this?

It takes time.

They want ratings,I'm giving 'em ratings.

You still eating those damn Tums?

Only thing keeping me alive.

Okay,Jane,you've got the S&L thing and the rerun thing.

Little to your left,Jane.

- How's this,Clay? - Camera loves you.

Have you talked to them yet?

Come on,Nathan.

Barbara Wa-Wa isn't the only one who can make celebrities cry.

Get me a special.

You won't remember my name when you sign that big contract with network,will you?

- 6 5 4 3... - The adorable man who rescued me from tiny-town action news?

- You kidding? - 2 ...

- I'll talk to them. - 1...

A fire in a West Philadelphia row house claims six lives.

The Channel 7 News Team is on the ground with that story in just a moment.

And later we'll bring you the...

What?

- We lost the teleprompter. - Where is it?

Um,the update on the...

Cut to commercial?

Give her a second.

The story on the Bass Group's...

- $2 billion purchase of the Savings and Loan Association. - Quiet,quiet,quiet.

- No,hang on... - But first,what you've been waiting for.

After months of reruns due to the writer's strike,Falcon Crest,

Murder She Wrote,and all your favorites are back.

The update after these messages.

All clear.

You get 'em,Jane.

- Okay. - This ain't casual Friday.

What,are you trying out for the team mascot,Nick?

Game's tonight.

You in,Scotty?Hitting Jones.

I don't do hockey.

I want to see a fight,I go to the ring.

This one's something.

Anyone remember a newscaster named Jane Everett,co-anchor at Channel 7?

Jane Everett.She was hot.

Yeah,strangled in Fairmount Park back in the '80s.

A research assistant from Channel 7 is on her way up to show us something.

Was that a tooth?

Gloves are off,baby.

Tory Roberts?

Channel 7.

I'm Detective Rush.

Why don't you come with me?

Oh...I got it.

Make sure you get all her info,you know-- name,number...

marital status.

Said you had something to show us?

An old Beta tape.

We're converting outdated formats to DVD.

I got stuck logging all the footage.

You'd give WCNU reporters a run for their money,they put you on the air.

- Going to make that jump one day. - Yeah?

So what do you got?

This is Jane Everett of WCNU.

Tonight I'll be bringing you a special report.

Jane Everett.

What?

Slow down.

Are you threatening me?

Listen,just...

you did the right thing.

Just don't make any decisions tonight.

Tell me where you are.

I'll be there in 20 minutes.

Tape's got a time stamp.

November 2,1988 Everyone said her murder was this random thing,

but they found the body six hours after that call.

11:46 p.m.

Means Jane met her caller around midnight.

So the caller's either the last to see...

Or Jane's talking to her killer.

COLD CASE Season 6 Episode 13 "Breaking News"

"Local cross-country team finds newscaster Jane Everett strangled in Fairmount Park."

No shortage of coverage or man-hours on this one.

Story was all over the place.

People felt like they knew her.

Well,she was in their living rooms every night.

Pretty girl.

Looked great in a leotard.

Did you see that special she did on aerobics?

You into aerobics,Nick?

What's it to you?

Don't let me catch you in a leotard.

Jane grew up in Manayunk.

Tough neighborhood.

Father was a tollbooth operator,died in '82; mom was a housewife.

Margie Everett.

Valens and Miller are talking to her now.

Only 27 years old.

- Strangled with her own scarf. - Crime of passion.

No mention of a boyfriend.

Original theory was some perv saw an easy target.

No DNA or witnesses to discount the theory.

Abrasions,torn clothes.

She didn't go without a fight.

Lived a few blocks from the park.Jogged there every morning at 5:00 a.m.before work.

5:00 a.m.-- hours are worse than ours.

She died in the same clothes she was wearing in that video: turtleneck,windbreaker.

Time of death was estimated between 2:00 and 6:00 a.m.

Maybe she didn't go to the park for her run.

- Could have met the caller there. - Or the caller knew she'd be there.

Tracked her down.

See what you can get from WCNU phone records.

If Jane knew her attacker,it's about time we did,too.

My daughter was a natural.

One look at her,people just fell in love.

Anything you can tell us about her personal life,Mrs.Everett?

Yeah,she didn't have one.

She spent years at stations out west.

Then she gets a job here in Philly,I still didn't get to see her.

Attractive woman like Jane must have had a boyfriend.

Well,if she did,she didn't tell me about it.

Two of you...

have a falling out?

I left college in the middle of my junior year to have her.

I got my education from the school of Edward R.Murrow and Walter Cronkite.

Janey and I,uh...

we bonded over the news when she was a little girl.

She'd even give her own broadcasts at dinner.

But by the time she died,the news wasn't the news anymore.

It was nothing but fluff,and she didn't seem to care.

Aerobics and...celebrity love lives.

That what your spat was over?Type of stories she was covering?

She was co-anchoring the fourth largest market in this country.

It still wasn't enough for me.

- Hundreds of families... - Janey,you're on.

...are taking part in this great event.

Oh,what are you wearing?

Um,it's a Halloween costume.

I got to say I think the adults are having as much fun as the kids.

- It's better than the sexy witch. - And best of all,the proceeds go to charity.

Shaw Plastics raised $50,000 for disadvantaged kids.

It was a good cause.

More like a good advertisement.

Did Shaw Plastics pay you to cover that story?

We do this kind of stuff all the time,Ma.

You give companies positive press,they buy ads.

Well,the Jane I knew dreamed of covering the presidential debates.

Mort is covering the presidential debates.You know that.

Can't you cover them,too?

Why do you always get stuck with the fluff?

There's got to be something else.

Like what?The elections in Chile?

Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan?

Do you know what it would take to get people to watch a story about armed rebels in remote villages?

Well,you don't really believe that,do you?

Management made changes to improve our ratings.

I took their advice about my hair and my wardrobe,and we went up four points.

Four points for teasing your hair?

I don't know how many times I have to tell you this,Ma.

It's just...it's the way the business is now.

I just...I don't understand why news had to stop being news.

Well,ask Nathan if you don't believe me.

We've made peace with it.Maybe you should,too.

Janey,I'm not trying to be critical.

I know.I've got an early morning,Ma.I'll see you later,okay?

Well...

The last time I saw my daughter alive and I was giving her a hard time.

Who's this Nathan she was talking about?

Nathan Kravet.

He was her boss.

Well,he was her mentor,really.

They met when Janey was at Syracuse University.

Thanks for your time,Mrs.Everett.

What I wouldn't give to see Janey on TV again,cat suit or not.

Everett was something else.

I gave a guest lecture at Syracuse her freshman year.

She sent me a story idea every week till she graduated.

They any good?

Not bad,actually.

She had an eye for the angle.

Could find a story in any picture.

Where'd the cat suit fit in?

By the time I hired her at WCNU,things were changing.

What qualified as news was anything that got ratings.

Including cute newsgirls?

Before Reagan took office,stations had to serve the public,present balanced reports.

Hell,there were even limits on the amount of ads.

Reagan relaxed all the rules.

Relaxed is right.

Looks more like a vacation than reporting.

Company retreats.

Better ratings meant better profits.

Better profits meant better corporate retreats.

Any idea who might have been threatening Jane the night she died?

Uh,I think her last story was about mall walkers.

You see her that night?

I was holed up in my office on the third floor.