The Color of Love, a Lifetime movie inspired by a true story, is likely based on Treka Engleman, a 30-year-old black teacher and foster mom who adopted three white children, says Traciy Curry-Reyes, the writer and researcher of TV Crime…
A House on Fire: a true story movie coming to Lifetime based on Dr. Debora Green and Dr. Michael Farrar— The castor bean poison and arson case made headlines in 1995 after Debora Green set fire to her $400,000 Kansas…
My Baby is Missing is most likely based in part or inspired by the article “My Baby Can’t Be Dead.” It appeared in Reader’s Digest about the Norma Armistead case. The original true crime took place in the seventies. My…
Circle of Deception, another Lifetime true story movie, is based on and inspired by ex-beauty queen Peggy Sue Thomas and the fatal shooting of Russel Douglas by her lover James Huden. It’s also inspired by Ann Rule’s true crime book…
Death of a Cheerleader, the old one, is back on Lifetime Movie Network. Bernadette Protti killed cheerleader Kirsten Costas in 1984 and served time in prison for her stabbing death. Where is Bernadette Protti now? Today, she’s a free woman….
The Perfect Bride, a 1991 Lifetime movie, could possibly be inspired by or based on the true story of several female serial killers, including Vera Renczi, Ada Wittenmyer, and Nannie Doss, according to research by TV Crime Sky and Traciy…
Girl In The Basement, the “inspired by actual events” true-story Lifetime movie, is based on Josef Fritzl and Elisabeth Fritzl. Part of Lifetime’s ripped from the headlines franchise, Girl in the Basement tells the story of daughter Sara who is…
