*Crime-related TV shows to watch TODAY!*

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Tonight on LMN:

8:00PM (EST): Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story (2013)

The quiet town of Delmar, New York, was considered anything but dangerous…until 21-year-old Chris Porco ( Matt Barr) was accused of brutally murdering his father Peter and disfiguring his mother Joan (Lolita Davidovich) in a savage axe attack, a claim made all the more shocking when the case’s lead detective Joe Sullivan (Eric McCormack) believed Joan had identified Chris as her attacker. Weeks after the crime, however, Joan would refute Detective Sullivan’s story, while the town of Delmar and many of Chris’ former friends and girlfriends would also rally to his defense, despite Sullivan’s fierce mission to prove his guilt. Prosecutors believed that beneath Chris’ picture-perfect façade was a devious and cunning sociopath who would stop at nothing to keep his lies hidden. In the end, he was convicted of second-degree murder of his father, but many in the town of Delmar firmly believe the jury wrongfully convicted an innocent young man...

http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/romeo-killer-the-chris-porco-story/about

Followed by Beyond the Headlines: The Real Romeo Killer at 10:00PM (EST)

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Tonight on LMN:

8:00PM (EST) Lies He Told (1997)

Based on a true story, a lawless renegade, wanted by police for his unspeakable crimes, lures a trusting young woman into a secret world of lust and deception.

10:00PM (EST) Vows of Deception (1996)

Also known as A Deadly Seduction and A Tangled Web, this made-for-TV melodrama stars Cheryl Ladd as Lucinda, a convict paroled in the custody of a hardboiled detective. Ladling on the charm in buckets, Lucinda inveigles the detective's brother, a wealthy widowed attorney, into falling in love with her. After their marriage, the "heroine" hatches a devilishly detailed scheme to kill of her husband, claim his fortune, and then seduce his handsome young son! ...

FYI/The case upon which the film is based:

http://vowsofdeceptionmovie.blogspot.com/

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Tonight on LMN:

8:00PM (EST) The Hunt for the I-5 Killer (2011)

The true story of the year-long manhunt for the killer who raped and murdered his way up and down the I-5 corridor through California, Washington, and Oregon for over a year in 1981, leaving 44 victims in his wake.

10:00PM (EST) 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.

 

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Tonight on LMN:

8:00PM (EST) Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story (2011)

“Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story” is based on a dramatic true story of Tiffany Rubin’s (Taraji P. Henson) daring 2008 rescue of her seven-year-old son, Kobe, after he was abducted by his biological father and taken from his home in Queens, New York, all the way to Seoul, South Korea...

http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/taken-from-me-tiffany-rubin/about

10:00PM (EST) Beyond the Headlines: The Tiffany Rubin Story

11:00PM (EST) Taken: Missing Children with Elizabeth Smart

 

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Today on LMN:

10:00AM (EST) 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

6:00PM (EST) 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://cyber.law.harvard.edu/vaw00/thurmanexcerpt.html00PM (EST) Tracey Thurman


8:00PM (EST) A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story (1992)

10:00PM (EST) Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter (1992)

http://www.latimes.com/la-broderick-...7.storygallery

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Today on LMN:

4:00PM (EST) Amber's Story 2006

The story of the Amber Alert system for tracking missing children and its namesake, Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old girl who was abducted and murdered in Arlington, Texas, in 1996.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Today on LMN:

2:00PM (EST) Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story (2008)

A woman (Judy Reyes) refuses to believe her infant daughter perished in a house fire. She suspects a distant relative of kidnapping the baby and setting the blaze to cover the crime. Based on a true story.

4:00PM (EST) 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.

6:00PM (EST) Bringing Ashley Home (2011)

When her wild younger sister Ashley, who suffers from bipolar disorder and drug addiction, goes missing, Libba Phillips pours all her time and energy into finding Ashley and bringing her home. As the years go by, Libba refuses to give up hope, and, at the expense of her marriage and career, Libba finds her calling in life: creating a much-needed resource center for other families whose missing loved ones have fallen through the cracks.

 

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Programs about JFK Assassination: Friday, Nov. 22

ABC News: "Good Morning America" will air live from Dallas, and "World News Tonight" and "Nightline" will feature segments on Kennedy's life and legacy.

"JFK: The Day that Changed America" (7 p.m., MSNBC): Re-airing of a 2003 documentary featuring interviews with Hillary Clinton, Sens. John McCain and John Kerry, Gore Vidal and Kennedy speechwriter Ted Sorenson, among others.

"JFK Assassination: The Definitive Guide" (8 p.m., History): This two-hour special examines the many conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy's death -- there are 311 distinct theories, according to the show -- and contemporary beliefs about what happened on Nov. 22, 1963. Historians and Kennedy experts lend their perspective as well.

"Kennedy Brothers: A Hardball Documentary" (8 p.m., MSNBC): Chris Matthews interviews Kennedy family members, biographers and historians about John, Robert and Edward Kennedy in an effort to "deconstruct the myth and legend" surrounding the family. First aired in 2009.

"Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis" (8 p.m., Military Channel): Re-airing of a 2012 special on the president's actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962.

"Tom Brokaw Special: Where Were You?" (9 p.m., NBC): This two-hour documentary combines archival footage with first-person accounts of people who lived through the Kennedy assassination.

"Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live" (10 p.m., History): As implied by the title, the special traces the last two days of Oswald's life from Kennedy's killing to his own death at the hands of Jack Ruby, filming at several locations visited by Oswald after the shooting and re-creating his interrogation by Dallas police.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Tonight on CNN:

10:00PM Eastern/7:00PM Pacific - The Assassination of President Kennedy: Two-hour special explores the impact of the assassination of JFK ahead on the November 22 50th anniversary.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Today on CNN:

5:00PM (EST): The Assassination of President Kennedy

A documentary examining the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Included: a look at the conclusions drawn by the Warren Report and eyewitness testimony.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

"Biography" tonight on LMN:

6:00PM (EST) Edmund Kemper: The Coed Killer

7:00PM (EST) Jim Jones: Journey Into Madness

8:00PM (EST) Warren Jeffs: Fallen Prophet

9:00PM (EST) John Wayne Gacy: A Monster in Disguise

10:00PM (EST) Charles Manson

11:00PM (EST) The Manson Women: An American Nightmare

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Tonight on Lifetime, A&E, and The History Channel:

9:00PM (EST) Bonnie and Clyde (2013 TV Mini-Series)

Based on the true story of Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber who sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet, and the two embark on one of most infamous bank-robbing sprees in history.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Tonight on Lifetime, A&E, and The History Channel:

9:00PM (EST) Bonnie and Clyde (2013 TV Mini-Series)

Part 2 (conclusion). Based on the true story of Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber who sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet, and the two embark on one of most infamous bank-robbing sprees in history.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Today on LMN: The Betty Broderick saga:

12:00PM (EST) A Woman Scorned

2:00PM (EST) Her Final Fury

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Tonight on CNN:

9:00PM Sole Survivor

A preview of CNN's "Sole Survivor" film

In advance of Thursday evening's primetime airing of "Sole Survivor," an exclusive CNN film dedicated to the experiences of individuals safely emerging from plane crashes that claimed the lives of all others on board, "Piers Morgan Live" welcomed a pair of a guests uniquely qualified to share their personal insights.

In 1985, 70 people died following the crashing of Galaxy Airlines Flight 203, a charter from Nevada to Minnesota that burst into flames less than two miles from the runway. The flight's sole survivor, George Lamson Jr. no longer dwells on being the only person spared...

...While much of the media coverage surrounding Lanson, Jr.'s survival was entirely positive, Amy Clay admits to dealing with a drastically different scenario. In 2006, Comair Flight 5191 crashed during take off from Kentucky. Bound for Georgia, 49 of the 50 people on board perished, including Clay's husband, the pilot...

http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/08/a-preview-of-cnns-sole-survivor-film/?iref=allsearch

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Tonight on LMN:

6:00PM (EST) Prosecuting Casey Anthony (2013)

A dramatization of the infamous Casey Anthony murder trial is seen through the eyes of prosecutor Jeff Ashton.

 

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Tonight on Lifetime:

8:00PM (EST) Lizzie Borden Took An Ax (2014)

On a scorching, hot summer day in 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts, Lizzie Borden returns home to the house she shares with her father Andrew, stepmother Abby and sister Emma. But, unlike any normal day, Lizzie encounters the bloody scene of her parents violently murdered. Police quickly question multiple suspects in town, but evidence keeps pointing back to the Borden’s youngest daughter Lizzie, the seemingly wholesome Sunday school teacher, as the prime suspect. Lizzie’s lawyer, Andrew Jennings, proclaims her innocence arguing that it is inconceivable a woman could commit the heinous crime of brutally murdering her family with an ax. Or is it? Lizzie is put on trial for the murders, both in the courtroom and in the press, sparking a widespread debate about her culpability. As the case rages on, the courtroom proceedings fuel an enormous amount of sensationalized stories and headlines in newspapers throughout the country, forever leaving Lizzie Borden’s name in infamy...

http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/liz...den-took-an-ax

http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=82529&page=4

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Today on LMN:

12:00PM (EST) Capture of the Green River Killer

Told through the eyes of one young runaway, Helen "Hel" Remus, "The Capture of the Green River Killer" is the haunting tale of how fate, bad luck and bad choices lead to her encounter with the notorious serial killer.

4:00PM (EST) Hunt for the BTK Killer

After 31 years at-large, detectives in Wichita, Kansas hone in on the serial killer known as BTK. Robert Forster, Michael Michele, Maury Chaykin star.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Today on LMN:

12:00PM (EST) Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy

“Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy” poses the question of whether Knox (Hayden Panettiere), the Seattle honors student accused of murdering her college roommate Meredith Kercher (Amanda Fernando Stevens) in 2007 with her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito (Paolo Romio) and acquaintance Rudy Guede (Djibril Kébé), actually committed the crime or was herself a victim. Referred to as “Foxy Knoxy” by her Italian prosecutor...

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Today on LMN:

2:00PM (EST) Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal (2008)

The true-life tale of a gutsy young teacher who fights to end the reign of misbehavior without consequence by five beautiful and well-connected cheerleaders who are given carte blanche to do as they please at school.