*Crime-related TV shows to watch TODAY!*

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I've been remiss in posting crime-related movies/TV shows while I'm following the Jodi Arias trial. My apologies :blushing:

There's a fabulous lineup of movies based on actual crimes on Lifetime and Lifetime Movie Network today/tonight. Times are EDT.

No One Would Tell: 2:00 LMN

Hunt for the I-5 Killer: 4:00 Lifetime

The Craigslist Killer: 6:00 Lifetime

Betty Broderick/A Woman Scorned: 8:00 LMN

Romeo Killer/The Chris Porco Story: 8:00 Lifetime

Betty Broderick/Her Final Fury: 10:00 LMN

Beyond the Headlines: The Chris Porco Story (analysis of the movie based on a true story) 10:00 Lifetime
 
The following are made-for-TV movies that are based on true crime stories. Times are EDT.

An Officer and a Murderer: 11:00AM Lifetime

Drew Peterson/Untouchable: 1:00PM Lifetime

Romeo Killer/The Chris Porco Story: 7:00 and 11:00PM Lifetime
 
Tonight at 8:00 (EDT) on LMN:

She Made Them Do It

The true story of Sarah Jo Pender who was convicted in the double murder of her roommates, but then escaped from prison and became one of America's most-wanted felons.

Repeated at 12:00AM Saturday and 4:00PM on Sunday.

About the case: http://murderpedia.org/female.P/p/pender-sarah.htm
 
Fab 5: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal Lifetime, 1:00PM (EDT)

A plucky young teacher (Jenna Dewan) challenges the school's de facto hierarchy of five spoiled, wealthy cheerleaders who don't play by any rules but their own. Based on a true story.

She Made Them Do It LMN, 4:00PM (EDT)

The true story of Sarah Jo Pender (Jenna Dewan) who was convicted in the double murder of her roommates, but then escaped from prison and became one of America's most-wanted felons.

I like both of these made-for-TV flicks that star Jenna Dewan who is very good in both roles. Happy Easter!
 
Tonight on Lifetime Movie Network (8:00 EDT):

The Eleventh Victim (2012) (TV)

Nancy Grace's THE ELEVENTH VICTIM is a taut suspense-thriller that follows Atlanta Assistant District Attorney Hailey Dean (Jennie Garth) as she tirelessly pursues the conviction of a serial killer. Just when her courtroom prosecution of the murderer begins, Haileys fiancée is killed in a seemingly unrelated crime. Shattered by her personal loss, she moves to New York City and begins a new career as a therapist. When her clients start to turn up dead, one by one with the murderer using the same M.O. as the Atlanta serial killer she put behind bars she is forced back into the dark world she left behind to help catch a cold-blooded killer who could very well make her his next target.
 
This is not really related to any crime on here but I don't know where else to post this if it's allready out there feel free to move it. Just wondering if anyone else caught the new TV show Hannibal tonight and what you thought . I thought the first 5 minutes were a little graphic for cable television for alot of people otherwise it wasn't bad .
 
Tonight at 10:00PM (EDT) on LMN:

Prayers For Bobby (2009)

True story of Mary Griffith, gay rights crusader, whose teenage son committed suicide due to her religious intolerance. Based on the book of the same title by Leroy Aarons.
 
This evening at 6:00PM (EDT) on AMC (American Movie Classics):

Erin Brockovich (2000)

An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.

Based on a true story: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004777/bio
 
Tonight at 10:00PM (EDT) on LMN:

Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story (2011)

This fact-based Lifetime drama follows one mother's (Tiffany Rubin played by Taraji P. Henson) nightmarish struggle to retrieve the 7-year-old son(Kobe played by Drew Davis) her ex-husband whisked out of her life when he abducted the boy and took him back to his native South Korea.
 
Dates From Hell Season Premier on April 12th. Investigation Discovery channel. 10pm ET
 
Tonight at 8:00PM (EDT) on Lifetime:

Stalkers (TV 2013)

Revolves around a criminal prosecutor who penned the law on stalking in California and is based on the true story of a hot-head cop and polished district attorney who team to bring a stalker obsessed with her former lover to justice.
 
Tonight on LMN:

8:00PM (EDT)

Drew Peterson: Untouchable (2012)

The story of Drew Peterson, who is charged with the death of his third wife after the mysterious disappearance of his fourth wife.


10:pM (EDT)

An Officer and a Murderer (2012)

The riveting film is based on the true story of a powerful and respected military officer who committed numerous brutal crimes and was eventually brought down by a tenacious small town police detective.
 
Tonight on LMN:

10:00PM (EDT)

The Pastor's Wife (TV 2011)

The story is based on the real-life 2006 media sensation where Mary Winkler murdered her small-town preacher husband.
 
Tonight at 8:00PM (EDT) on LMN:

The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story (2004)

Dean Cain portrays Scott Peterson, the California man accused of murdering his 8 month pregnant wife, Laci.
 
Tonight on LMN:

8:00PM (EDT) Blue-Eyed Butcher (2012)

Texas beauty Susan Wright appeared to have a fairytale life with an adoring husband, Jeff, two beautiful kids, and close family and friends. But in 2003, six years into their marriage, the fairy tale crumbles when Jeff is found dead and buried in the backyard of their suburban home. The close-knit community is shocked as police accuse Susan of pre-meditated murder -- luring her husband into the bedroom, tying him up and violently stabbing him almost 200 times before haphazardly cleaning up the crime scene. As Jeff's family reels from the devastating news, Susan begins to mount her aggressive defense; that she needed to kill Jeff out of self-preservation for herself and her children after years of physical and mental abuse. But prosecutor Kelly Siegler is skeptical of her defense and forcefully argues she is a cunning, doe-eyed sociopath, who has used her good looks to try to get away with anything in life -- even murder. The jury rejected her claim of self-defense, and sentenced "the blue-eyed butcher" to 25 years in prison for murder. In 2009 the Texas appeals court granted Wright a new sentencing hearing, after determining that her "counsel rendered ineffective assistance during the punishment phase of trial." On November 20, 2010, Wright was re-sentenced to 20 years in prison, five years less than her original sentence.

10:00PM (EDT) The Craigslist Killer (2011)

The Craigslist Killer follows the dark, mysterious life Philip Markoff (Jake McDorman) conducted online while preparing for a promising future as a doctor and a life of happiness with his fiancée, Megan McAllister (Agnes Bruckner). Seemingly destined for greatness as one of Boston University's brightest med students, Markoff could do no wrong in the eyes of Megan, his friends, fellow students and professors. But hidden from those close to him was the violent wrath only he and his victims knew - beginning with his alleged April 14, 2009, first-degree murder of a masseuse who advertised her services on Craigslist. When police discover that the brutal killing and a number of other attacks on women were all connected to advertisements placed on Craigslist, their investigation ultimately leads them to Markoff.
 
Tonight at 6:00PM (EDT) on LMN:

Just Ask My Children (2001)

A pedophilia witch-hunt is started in Bakersfield by two teenage girls' foppish child abuse claims. Blindly ambitious justice officials, especially in the prosecutor's office, conspire to arrest loving parents Scott and Brenda Kniffen, whose doted pre-teen sons Brian and Brandon are grilled endlessly until they repeat the vicious lies, the elder even ends up believing them while they pass from one foster home to the next, as even the grandparents are denied custody for not turning on their children. The defense's rights are systematically denied, so the parents go to jail for 240 years. The boys are near adulthood when the political tide finally turns.

Based on a true story: http://www.justaskmychildrenmovie.blogspot.com/
 
Today/Tonight on LMN:

2:00PM (EDT) No One Would Tell (1996)

Shy sixteen-year-old Stacy Collins can't believe that the most popular guy in school, an attractive athlete named Bobby Tennison, is interested in her. At first she is flattered by his constant attention, but then he becomes possessive and jealous-telling her who she can speak to and what she can wear. Threats escalate into violence when Bobby thinks Stacy has stepped out of line. Soon she is walking on egg shells and living in fear. Having seen the tell-tale bruises, Stacy's best friend convinces her to break things off with Bobby-but in a moment of weakness, Stacy goes to meet him.

http://masscases.com/cases/sjc/421/421mass400.html


8:00PM (EDT) Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story (1994)

Donna Yaklich meets Dennis the policeman and thinks she might have found a good relationship. But Dennis is obsessed with weight-lifting and uses steroids, which make him aggressive and abusive. Getting out of the relationship isn't easy as Dennis isn't willing to let her go, and Donna's options are narrowed down to one remaining alternative.

http://murderpedia.org/female.Y/y/yaklich-donna.htm


10:00PM (EDT) A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story (1989) Tracy Thurman was married to a man who abused her. But he continues to harass her after she gets a restraining order, and the police do little to help. When he brutally beats her and slashes her throat in front of police, she sues the city and the police department for failing to protect her.

http://www.examiner.com/article/tra...s-by-her-husband-waited-25-minutes-for-police
 
Tonight at 8:00PM (EDT) on LMN:

Fatal Honeymoon (2012)

Based on a true story, Fatal Honeymoon tells the shocking story and controversy surrounding a newlywed who tragically dies on her dream honeymoon and the subsequent investigation as to whether or not her husband was guilty of killing her. In the film, Alabama couple Gabe Watson and his new bride, 26 year-old Tina Watson, married just 11 days, go on their dream honeymoon to scuba dive near Australia's Great Barrier Reef, where Tina drowns in what appears to be a freak accident. With authorities puzzled over Gabe's inconsistent statements about Tina's death, her father Tommy Thomas begins to suspect Gabe may have murdered his daughter. When an underwater photo of Tina lying motionless on the ocean floor emerges, Australian authorities begin to suspect foul play, charge Gabe with his wife's death and extradite him to their country, where he eventually pleads guilty to manslaughter and serves 18 months in prison. Alabama prosecutors, agreeing with Tommy's suspicion Tina was murdered and Gabe had possibly planned it before they left the state, decide to pursue murder charges in the United States. But, due to lack of evidence, the judge dismisses the case - causing many to wonder what a jury would've made of the evidence and leaving Tommy with more unanswered questions about what actually happened to his daughter on her honeymoon.
 
The Michael Peterson Case (wife Kathleen found dead at the bottom of the staircase) on Dateline NBC 8 p.m. EDT. New episode.
 
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