Cold Justice gets second season on TNT

With three success stories already in the works since its September debut, TNT’s true-crime series Cold Justice has scored a second season, which will bow in early 2014.

Cold Justice, executive produced by Law & Order‘s Dick Wolf,  features former Houston prosecutor Kelly Siegler and former Las Vegas crime-scene investigator Yolanda McClary taking on some of America’s 200,000 unsolved murder cases.

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The series has proven to be as effective a crime-fighting enterprise as it is compelling TV. Thanks to Siegler and McClary’s efforts, cases featured in Cold Justice‘s first three episodes have headed toward  trial,

In the Sept. 3 series premiere, Siegler and McClary presented fresh evidence to a Texas Grand Jury that lead Ronnie Joe Hendrick to plead guilty to the 2001 murder of his girlfriend, Pamela Curlee Shelly — a death investigators ruled a suicide despite protests from the woman’s family. Hendrick was sentenced to 22 years in prison.

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Siegler and McClary also helped secure indictments of three suspects — including the victim’s own son — in the 2006 murder of Mattie Williams in Collinston, LA. Fresh evidence in the 1982 death of Charlene Corporon in Palacios, Texas, could also result in the victim’s son being charged with murder.

“We’re very proud to be renewing Cold Justice, which has already delivered real-world results for several of the cases featured on the show,” said David Eilenberg, senior vice president of unscripted development for TBS and TNT. “Viewers have come to see Kelly and Yolanda as a real-life counterpart to such crime-drama duos as Cagney & Lacey and even our own Rizzoli & Isles.”

New episodes of Cold Justice air Tuesdays at 10pm on TNT through Oct. 22.

Photo credit: John Nowak/TNT

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