

105 minutes
5/2/2001
Jessica Fletcher discovers a shocking old family secret that leads her on a journey to the deep South to bring to light the mysterious details surrounding the death of a slave owned by one of her long dead ancestors in the mid-1800s.

Angela Lansbury
as Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough

Phylicia Rashād
as Cassandra Hawkins

Michael Jace
as Samuel Pinkney

David Ogden Stiers
as Stanford Thornton

Madison Mason
as Charles Hobbs

Tim Abell
as Jeb McNell

Beth Grant
as Louisa Ashland

Walton Goggins
as Billy Weber

Taraji P. Henson
as Bess Pinckney

Gloria Stuart
as Eliza Hoops

Tim DeKay
as Robert Mercer

Elizabeth Dennehy
as Archivist

John Hostetter
as Cornelius Ashland

Keith Jefferson
as Jeremiah Jessup

Lee Garlington
as Laura Lee Curtis

Jeremiah Birkett
as Jim

Peter Sherayko
as Morgan Spencer