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Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest

  • TV Movie
  • Mystery

November 2, 1997 (US)

1h 40m

It began as a cross country train trip. It became a Federal case-- of murder!

Jessica Fletcher searches for a woman who witnessed the murder of a man trying to expose a serious flaw in a top-secret government satellite code.

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