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Academy Award winner* Patty Duke searches for her daughter's killer in this shocking true story, costarring Tiffani-Amber Thiessen and Loretta Swit. A popular 17-year-old girl, Jenny Monroe (Thiessen) is found beaten, tortured and drowned in a creek. Her best friend, Ellen Holloway (Margaret Welsh), swears to find the killer, providing moral support to Jenny's mother, Jean (Duke). Moving into the Monroe family home, Ellen becomes like a daughter, helping Jean search for a killer who continues to hide in plain sight. Originally airing on CBS-TV on December 8, 1992, A Killer Among Friends was based on the 1985 murder of Missy Avila, whose killers were eventually convicted of second-degree murder. Sentenced to 15 years-to-life, one was released after serving 21 years, while the other remains in state prison. *Actress in a Supporting Role, The Miracle Worker (1962)
Movie Details
- Format
- DVD
- Encoding
- Region 1 (US & Canada)
- Rating
- PG-13
- Originally Released
- 1992
- Runtime
- 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Label
- Warner
- Starring
- Patty Duke;Margaret Welsh;Tiffany-Amber Thiessen;Loretta Swit
Manufactured on Demand
This film was released by studios as part of their MOD (Manufactured-On-Demand) line of releases. This is not a bootleg. In order to make the release of films with low sales demand possible, major studios like Universal, Sony, Warner, Paramount, Hallmark and 20th Century Fox have contracted with a distributor to provide manufactured-on-demand releases to consumers.