Episode
Cold Case Files: Lil' Miss /Skeletons In The Closet
Overview
An eerie note left on a grave helps solve a 12-year-old case of murder, and an exhaustive questioning of a mother helps police unravel the mysterious deaths of three of her
Details
- Series
- Cold Case Files
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 24
- Air date
- 2001-06-11
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Lil' Miss /Skeletons In The Closet is Episode 24 in Season 3 of Cold Case Files. It aired on 2001-06-11. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 19: Cowboys on the Case/Office Politics
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