Murder by the Book
November 6th 2007 18:36
The stories that have inspired 13 of our greatest crime writers have inspired Court TV’s second season of Murder by the Book.
The first episode features writer Sandra Brown (Chill Factor, Play Dirty) and a murder with an axe. A small town housewife turns up murdered in her utility room, leaving the police baffled. From the looks of things, the killer actually stayed in the house long enough to take a shower before leaving. In the kitchen police find a bloodstained newspaper opened to a movie review of The Shining.
Sandra Brown, who was living in TX at the time, picked up on some more eerie facets of the murder, like the fact that the killing occurred on Friday the 13th, the woman’s house was the 13th on the block, and there were similarities to the infamous old murder done by Lizzie Borden. Remember the song? “Lizzie Borden got an axe, gave her mother 40 whacks, when she saw what she had done, gave her father 41.” The dead woman in Texas had received 41 strikes of the axe found at the crime scene.
Murder by the Book combines interviews, documentary footage, reenactments, and authors to investigate crimes that prove truth really can be stranger than fiction.
Read more about Court TV’s Murder by the Book Here.
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