Fair rating?Cold Case Files· Season 1 · Episode 20
The Missing and the Dead
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.
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#8In Season 1of 24 rated episodes
#12All-timeof 51 rated episodes
+0.1vs season avgSeason 1 averages 8.9
1999First airedMay 14, 1999
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