Comments on: 5 Horrific Murders (and the TV Movies made from them)

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:38:28 +0000

I was wondering if any one remembers the name of a movie i belive it was on lfetime and a true story, where a girl and her boyfriend which her boyfriend drives a van break into a girls house and kill her in her bedroom because she had sex with the girls boyfriend, but really he raped her,the one girl was like white trash from a trailer park and the other was oppsite

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:51:00 +0000

Yes. . . yes! I was actually just thinking about that movie the other day. :) In a Child’s Name 1991. With Valerie Bertinelli. That’s a good one. It was one of my favorites. I still remember the luminal scene where the grandparents wake up in the husbands bedroom after the police had been there all day looking for evidence. Creepy!!! Michael Ontkean was the creepy husband.

By: ceemee

ceemee — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:31:00 +0000

to ezmerelda…the valerie bertinelli movie is “in a child’s name” based on true storey of murder of teresa taylor by dentist husband ken taylor…sisiter who has custody of child is celeste benigno.

By: Ezmerelda

Ezmerelda — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:08:00 +0000

I agree with the Burning Bed suggestion; that was a great one.
I am also thinking of two more:
1. Blood Vows with Melissa Gilbert. She married into a mafia family and her “perfect” husband ultimately kills her when she finds out & tries to break free.
2. One with Valerie Bertinelli…can’t remember the name, but I was transfixed to the television when it was on. Something about a sister getting murdered and proving it was her husband? A two-parter, I think. I’ll never forget when the whole room lit up with the glowing blood…Creepy!! Anyone else know which this is?

By: Insomniac Non Sequitur

Insomniac Non Sequitur — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:16:00 +0000

The Burning Bed (NBC, 1984) should be number one on this list, as it’s the prototype for the whole Lifetime women in peril genre. Farrah Fawcett stars as a midwest housewife, battered for more than a decade by her loutish husband (played by Paul LeMat), who one night while he sleeps, douses him with gasoline and sets him on fire, hence the title, and is acquitted of the murder! I remember this movie really starting the public discussion about domestic abuse, until then, it was many families’ hidden shame. A really hard hitting film (for 1984 network TV); I think this is the first movie I saw to depict spousal rape as unacceptable behavior.

By the way, Co-Ed Call Girl and Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?, while vital parts of Tori Spelling’s oeuvre, aren’t true stories of murder (the pimp doesn’t even die in Co-Ed Cal Girl). – INS

By: Angelina

Angelina — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:05:00 +0000

She fought alone with Tiffani Amber Thiessen

The stalking of Laurie Show with Jennifer Finnigan

By: Ralphie

Ralphie — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:06:22 +0000

“It may have been called Texas Cheerleader Murder or something like that. It was about a mother who hired a hitman to murder the head cheerleader on her daughters team after the daughter was disqualified from the election.”

Not to be picky, but it was, “The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom” and it was on HBO. Great movie, BTW. Luckily no one was killed, so they played it as a comedy.

-Ralphie

By: zale

zale — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:37:50 +0000

My favourite real life murder move is Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story.

I’ve got a personal link with the sotry too.
The kids who found the husband’s torso asked my dad to go along with them that day, but he said no.

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:17:30 +0000

No. 2 is not a murder.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:30:20 +0000

What about “In Cold Blood” ?