Is This Television Reality or Tragedy? You Be The Judge
Today the Los Angeles Times Service reported that a new series is coming to television called "Til Death Do Us Part" a half hour program about true crime domestic murder cases hosted by film Director John Walters. Each episode will begin with the reenactment of the murder victim and the murder.
This series is the brain child (although I question using the word brain) of low budget horror film director Jeff Lieberman. And all the episodes will be based on actual domestic violence murders. The story goes on to say that the network who they don't mention would strive to balance storytelling with sensitivities of the victims families.My mother was murdered by my father, does that make for good television? Maybe someone like me is too close to the issues of domestic violence and women murdered at the hands of those who promise to love them. How can anyone give a balance account with events that lead to any tragedy of this level an accurate account of anything that will offer a fair and balance story?
What would someone like John Walsh who I admire, of America's most wanted
say if a producer wanted to do a show in this format pertaining to children abducted and then murdered? Would they open the show with a reenactment of a child's birth in the delivery room? And then play out for viewers the murder and then capture of the killer?
Would a show even get past a network door? I think not.
Will a show like this fuel the already burning fires of those abusers, sitting in their living rooms, ideas on how to commit the next murder?
Susan Murphy-Milano
"Defending Our Lives" getting away from domestic violence & staying safe (Doubleday books)
