Details

Release year: 1991

Storyline

The recounting of a terrible crime that wracked a family and galvanized police in South Carolina in the 1980's.

Top credits

Directors

Roger Young

Writers

John Bensink

Cast

William Devane — Sheriff Jim Metts
Jeri Ryan — Dawn Elizabeth Smith
Michele Abrams — Shari Smith
Nick Searcy — Asst. Sheriff McCarty

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Did you know

• Larry Gene Bell was executed in 1996. He was the last inmate to die in South Carolina's electric chair.

• This film is based on the crimes of Larry Gene Bell.

• Sheriff James Metts is the longest serving Republican elected official in South Carolina, having served since 1975. At the time, South Carolina was still mostly democratic. At the time of his first election, he was the youngest sheriff in the United States. Metts was suspended from office by South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley after being indicted on Federal corruption charges in 2014.