A charming but devious college student is accused of killing his wealthy father and attempting to murder his mother in their home while they slept.
The quiet, affluent suburb of Delmar, New York, was considered anything but dangerous...until 21-year-old Chris Porco was accused of brutally murdering his father Peter and disfiguring his mother Joan in a savage ax attack, a claim made all the more shocking when the case's lead detective Joe Sullivan believed Joan had identified Chris as her attacker. Weeks after the crime, however, Joan would refute Detective Sullivan's story, while the town of Delmar and many of Chris' former friends and girlfriends would also rally to his defense, despite Sullivan's fierce mission to prove his guilt. Prosecutors believed that beneath Chris' picture-perfect facade was a greedy and cunning sociopath who would stop at nothing to keep his lies hidden. In the end, he was convicted of second-degree murder of his father, but many in the town of Delmar firmly believe that the prosecution rushed to judgment and the jury wrongfully convicted an innocent young man.—Anonymous
Popular, handsome, charming student Christopher 'Chris' Porco is the prime suspect of neighbor and investigating detective Joe Sullivan, whose daughter Melanie sides with lover Chris, for the savagely bloody murder of his father Peter and near-fatal facial slashing of his mother Joan, who only saw a masked man, in their suburb of Delmar, New York, fine home. Chris has an alibi at his college, which Joe discards like every testimony, including Joan's after her recovery. Yet he establishes Chris was a serial cheater and nearly exhausting father's and military big brother's patience by making debts to play the big spender and even forging his poor exam results. A dent in his alibi may swing the case in court, where no conclusive evidence can be presented to the jury.—KGF Vissers
