Summary On the evening of June 10, 2007, the tight-knit community of Darby, Montana, learned that craftsman and builder Bill Stout was dead. Bill's wife Anne said she came home from running errands and found her husband's bloodied and lifeless body in the couple's bed. When police arrived on the scene, they discovered Bill dead from a single gunshot wound to the head. Anne told investigators Bill had no enemies in Darby, but suggested that her husband was the target of a former lover turned stalker. The woman, Barbara Miller, lived in Arkansas. She and Bill had reunited at an old friend's wedding, and had a brief fling. But after Bill broke off the relationship, he received a barrage of threatening emails and letters with Barbara's signature. It looked like a tragic case of "Fatal Attraction." But as police continued to investigate, their sympathy for Anne turned to suspicion. They found a gun hidden in the saddlebag of Bill's motorcycle, and a rubber glove buried in a clothes hamper. Anne claimed she could never harm the father of her two sons, but the Ravalli County Sheriff's Office wasn't buying it. They arrested Anne, and charged her with her husband's murder. Friends and family rallied around Anne, who appeared to be a grief stricken widow. But prosecutors saw no sorrow in Anne's eyes. Instead, they uncovered evidence of a person consumed with rage over her husband's two-year-old affair with Barbara Miller. And, at trial in the summer of 2008, they presented a chilling case against Anne. There was the murder weapon: Bill's handgun that had been reported stolen just weeks before the killing. And, that wasn't all. The most damaging evidence showed that Anne tried to frame Bill's former mistress Barbara, creating phony emails and letters-and making phone calls from a local pay phone. It was starting to look like an open and shut case against Anne. But the defense argued, if Anne was clever enough to fabricate emails and letters, why did she leave a rubber glove with DNA evidence and the murder weapon at the scene? But jurors weren't swayed by the defense argument. Their verdict: guilty. Anne's case remains on appeal while she serves a life sentence in the Montana Women's Prison, with little chance of parole.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Sharon Martin Jody Flader Andrew D. Erath Dustin Bolt
Genres : Crime Documentary
Release date : May 1, 2010
Countries of origin : United States
Language : English
Production companies : Jupiter Entertainment Oh! Oxygen
Summary On the evening of June 10, 2007, the tight-knit community of Darby, Montana, learned that craftsman and builder Bill Stout was dead. Bill's wife Anne said she came home from running errands and found her husband's bloodied and lifeless body in the couple's bed. When police arrived on the scene, they discovered Bill dead from a single gunshot wound to the head. Anne told investigators Bill had no enemies in Darby, but suggested that her husband was the target of a former lover turned stalker. The woman, Barbara Miller, lived in Arkansas. She and Bill had reunited at an old friend's wedding, and had a brief fling. But after Bill broke off the relationship, he received a barrage of threatening emails and letters with Barbara's signature. It looked like a tragic case of "Fatal Attraction." But as police continued to investigate, their sympathy for Anne turned to suspicion. They found a gun hidden in the saddlebag of Bill's motorcycle, and a rubber glove buried in a clothes hamper. Anne claimed she could never harm the father of her two sons, but the Ravalli County Sheriff's Office wasn't buying it. They arrested Anne, and charged her with her husband's murder. Friends and family rallied around Anne, who appeared to be a grief stricken widow. But prosecutors saw no sorrow in Anne's eyes. Instead, they uncovered evidence of a person consumed with rage over her husband's two-year-old affair with Barbara Miller. And, at trial in the summer of 2008, they presented a chilling case against Anne. There was the murder weapon: Bill's handgun that had been reported stolen just weeks before the killing. And, that wasn't all. The most damaging evidence showed that Anne tried to frame Bill's former mistress Barbara, creating phony emails and letters-and making phone calls from a local pay phone. It was starting to look like an open and shut case against Anne. But the defense argued, if Anne was clever enough to fabricate emails and letters, why did she leave a rubber glove with DNA evidence and the murder weapon at the scene? But jurors weren't swayed by the defense argument. Their verdict: guilty. Anne's case remains on appeal while she serves a life sentence in the Montana Women's Prison, with little chance of parole.
Genres : Crime Documentary
Release date : May 1, 2010
Countries of origin : United States
Language : English
Production companies : Jupiter Entertainment Oh! Oxygen
