This is a true story about a 1991 murder case. It was the first case in history that a person was convicted without a body or a weapon. It is known as the Computer Disc case. In the movie some things were left out. But it was pretty good. The person in question real name was Captian Shirley Gibbs Russell. This case was the baby of the agent in the movie. They decided to prosecute the case in the Federal Court system because it wasn't required that a body or a weapon be found. The husband who was previously drummed out of the Corps had a 26 step plan on how to kill his wife. A few of the steps were how to look like she left? How do I kill her..electrocution, check in the library? and Step 26 "blame her own kind".
The prosecutors believed he chopped up his wife put her in garbage bags and disposed of her in a mine in rural Pennsyvania.
I find this case mirrors the Scott Peterson case, because not only do we have computer disc like Peterson had on his computer about the tidal patterns, he had a girlfriend too who was a witness. In Robert Russells case it was a fellow teacher and cheer-leading coach named Sandy Flynt who he had spy on his wife. Not the landlady as in the movie. She was a chief witness as Amber Frey was.
I think Mitzi Kapture was very good in this movie. She had the role as the investigating agent. I liked her in my guilty pleasure Silk Stalkings. She pretty much plays that part in this movie.
I hear people commenting on how the victim was played as a angel. Well she never did anything in her life to warrant that she be played as anything other then a good person as she was portrayed in the movie. It is because the husband is so evil she seems so angelic. But that is his fault not hers. Robert Russell was drummed out of the Corp because he was a creep. So people should not think of this movie as making the victim look like a angel. It is a movie to show how bad Robert Russell was. This was not some poor guy who was convicted on trumped up charges. Just like with the Scott Petterson trial there was no weapon. But it was Pettersons actions who put him in jail. Robert Russell wrote in his own words how to kill his wife.
Jasmine Guy is very good. I like her part because even though she was a victim you can see how much of a tough woman she was. Guy does a good job showing that. The man who play her husband is very good. He and Dale Midkoff are very good in these parts. He is not only a racist, and yes racist marry people of the race they hate just like racists love Michael Jordan. He is a chauvinist and he was cheating on his wife. Ultimately I believe it was his chauvinism that got the best of him.
A Update is that Robert Russell has appealed his conviction all the way to the United States Supreme court and he has lost every single one of them. And they never found her body.
The prosecutors believed he chopped up his wife put her in garbage bags and disposed of her in a mine in rural Pennsyvania.
I find this case mirrors the Scott Peterson case, because not only do we have computer disc like Peterson had on his computer about the tidal patterns, he had a girlfriend too who was a witness. In Robert Russells case it was a fellow teacher and cheer-leading coach named Sandy Flynt who he had spy on his wife. Not the landlady as in the movie. She was a chief witness as Amber Frey was.
I think Mitzi Kapture was very good in this movie. She had the role as the investigating agent. I liked her in my guilty pleasure Silk Stalkings. She pretty much plays that part in this movie.
I hear people commenting on how the victim was played as a angel. Well she never did anything in her life to warrant that she be played as anything other then a good person as she was portrayed in the movie. It is because the husband is so evil she seems so angelic. But that is his fault not hers. Robert Russell was drummed out of the Corp because he was a creep. So people should not think of this movie as making the victim look like a angel. It is a movie to show how bad Robert Russell was. This was not some poor guy who was convicted on trumped up charges. Just like with the Scott Petterson trial there was no weapon. But it was Pettersons actions who put him in jail. Robert Russell wrote in his own words how to kill his wife.
Jasmine Guy is very good. I like her part because even though she was a victim you can see how much of a tough woman she was. Guy does a good job showing that. The man who play her husband is very good. He and Dale Midkoff are very good in these parts. He is not only a racist, and yes racist marry people of the race they hate just like racists love Michael Jordan. He is a chauvinist and he was cheating on his wife. Ultimately I believe it was his chauvinism that got the best of him.
A Update is that Robert Russell has appealed his conviction all the way to the United States Supreme court and he has lost every single one of them. And they never found her body.