The Pig Woman of Sparta In the Heat of the Night : Season 2 Episode 21
TV-14 (self-applied) CBS 1h 00m int(0)
Aired: May 9th, 1989 @ 12:00 AM EST on CBS
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.