flysstee I watched it because my partner is in it as an extra (strange to see him with so much hair), anyway I enjoyed it. With the dead girl narrating I was reminded of The Lovely Bones but I don't think it will haunt me like LB does. Nice treatment of the story and not trying to be all 70s flashback. It's a treat for Aucklanders to see their hometown in a movie, peopled by Americans. Good job Carmen(?)from Shortland Street for the very convincing accent. Although the man with a past turns up in a small town and overcomes local hostility to solve a crime with the help of wizened ex cop and hard working sidekick is old, it's apparently true, which makes you all the more sad when considering the crime. Sad, yet not distressing, therefore likable. I will probably watch it again to point out my partner's hair to friends and relatives.

JoeB131 This is Lifetime Channel Schlock, and frankly, it would be as forgettable as most of the genre, if it weren't for Christopher Meloni.Meloni plays Mark Fuhrman of O.J. Simpson fame. He's believable in the role and much more likable than the real life Fuhrman. (who was, after all, a racist perjurer). I think the movie shows how Fuhrman's actions in the Simpson case went before him (A scene with an African American secretary and her disgust was particularly good), but it never really explores that background. Was he really a racist? Or was he just caught in a bad situation. Of course, Meloni is so likable you kind of don't care.For the murder itself, the problem is, you only see it in flashback, and you never meet the suspects- the Skakel Brothers- in real time, as middle aged men who've aged since then.

alicespiral I like True Story films but not like this especially when its a murder no known of in the U K. But it seems nearer to the true story of how a disgraced detective wrote a book about it.Why was he disgraced? God knows it never said unless he was a racist. Whatever these flashbacks don't make for a complete story- as -it -happenned.It could have been so much more interesting if the book had not been like it was a main character in the story. The end was too quick and the way the killer was caught was not actually shown as it jumped the years just in time to here he'd got 25 years or something. But it just acts as a reminder that all these kind of murders where some teenager is snuffed out for no good reason-they usually say "crime oassionel" or something but it wasn't even that it was pretty senseless-deserve the death penalty.To deprive someone so young of having children and their parents grandchildren is to my mind a crime deserving of death.It reminds me of how much I favor the death penalty because no parent should have to bury their own child

MissCuite1 This was truly a insightful way of looking into the Moxley case. Marth and her family deserved for their story to be seen and now they have gotten their chance. The actors in the show were very talented and had the characteristics of each character they played. Maggie Grace as Martha was amazing...she looked a lot like Martha. I'd say this was one of the best tv movies i have seen in a long time!