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In the early morning of July 25, 1988, in the Smallwood subdivision of Washington, North Carolina, Lieth Von Stein and his wife Bonnie were attacked in their bedroom by an intruder wielding a knife and a club. Lieth was killed, but Bonnie survived with serious injuries and was able to summon aid.
The miniseries is based on the 1991 true crime book Cruel Doubt by Joe McGinniss, which documents the 1988 murder of Lieth Von Stein by his stepson, Chris Pritchard, and two friends, James Upchurch and Gerald Neal Henderson.
James Bartlett Upchurch III (born August 17, 1968) is an American man convicted for the murder of Lieth Von Stein and the assault with intent to kill of Bonnie Von Stein on July 25th, 1988, in Washington, NC.
Cruel Doubt: With Blythe Danner, Matt McGrath, Denis Arndt, Adam Baldwin. A college student and two friends are accused of murdering one's stepfather and injuring his mother whom refuses to believe her son had anything to do with the attack.
May 17, 1992 · In July 1988, 19-year-old Christopher Pritchard planned the murders of his stepfather, mother and sister. Pritchard, a failing student at North Carolina State who used drugs and was deeply ...
Blind Faith and Cruel Doubt. Blind Faith (published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1989) is based on the 1984 Marshall murder case in which American businessman Robert O. Marshall was charged with (and later convicted of) the contract killing of his wife, Maria.
May 15, 1992 · A couple of book publishers and two networks have inadvertently conspired to turn a small, true, sordid tale of family murder into a legend, the grim details of which every pop-cultured American...
Oct 2, 1991 · One steamy night in 1988, someone clubbed and stabbed Lieth Von Stein to death in his rural North Carolina home and nearly managed to kill Bonnie Von Stein too. Von Stein’s teen-age stepdaughter,...
In his book "Cruel Doubt" Joe Mcginnis invents a connection between the D&D training scenario "Your First Game" and the murder of Leith Von Stein. The training game was, according to Mcginnis, used a blueprint for murder.
May 15, 1992 · A dramatized true story with the stabbings illustrated again and again and with no clear-cut definition of the principals should give the viewers a surfeit of Von Stein blood and agony. By Tony ...
