Cold Case Season 3 Episode 12

One week and day later that this episode aired, Jake Richardson guest starred in episode 2-13: Raising Cain of Medium playing an outcast teenager -- a very similar character as in this episode. A similar incident occured previously in the season in which Natasha Gregson Warner played a mental patient first in episode 2-3: Time Out of Mind of Medium and then later in episode 3-5: Committed of Cold Case.

The working title of this episode was "All Apologies". All Apologies is a song by Nirvana, released in 1993 on the album In Utero. In the original script, All Apologies was supposed to be used during the closing montage scene and another Nirvana song, Come As You Are, was to be used during the opening scenes. It's likely that the producers weren't able to get the songs' rights to use in the episode.

Eventually, 5-1: Thrill Kill only featured Nirvana songs but reverses those two songs; All Apologies plays during the opening scenes and Come As You Are plays during the end scenes.