Cold Case Files

Season 1, Episode 21

Episode Title: The Missing and the Dead

Air Date: 1999-05-14

Overview:

When a passing motorist spots a fire along a country road in South Carolina and calls it in, police arrive to discover the badly burned and battered remains of a woman, her skull smashed in to 97 fragments. After a forensic anthropologist at the University of South Carolina painstakingly pieces the bones back together, investigators use the skull to solve the murder.