Like most of the opening teasers, this episode showed the victim in her period setting, surrounded by people that may or may not have been involved in her death. Unlike the other teasers, it's revealed that this victim dies almost a year after she is first seen, instead of within a few hours afterward as is usually typical with the series.
First episode in which Lily's mother, Ellen Rush, appears.
Due to the age of the case, the team doesn't have many first-hand witnesses to question. Most of the flashback scenes are told through a diary, written and recorded interviews, and a song.
Violet Polley was murdered on December 25, 1929.
First appearance of Meredith Baxter as Ellen Rush.