Episode
In the Heat of the Night: The Pig Woman of Sparta
Overview
It seems that a serial killer has been burying his victims in a wooded area owned by a wealthy hermit that Virgil refers to as ""Sparta's Howard Hughes"". Suspicion immediately falls on an eccentric woman who lives in the woods with her pigs and chases away trespassers with a shotgun.The officers ask the landowner's disturbed son for help and Bubba is surprised to find that a woman he attended high school with is working as the man's ""nurse"".Also Parker and Sweet compete with one another to solve the case.
Details
- Series
- In the Heat of the Night
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 1989-05-09
- Runtime
- 48 min
Episode context
The Pig Woman of Sparta is Episode 21 in Season 2 of In the Heat of the Night. It aired on 1989-05-09. The runtime is 48 min.
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