CRIME PROGRAMS

[Lady Cop]

i'm going to begin posting programming related to crime that may be of interest.
if you want to recommend a program, feel free to post it, give the network and time, time zone & date. people will need to check their local listings.

April 30^th, tonight, this looks pretty interesting:

A new television show is set to reveal the final 24 hours before an inmate's execution on Death Row, lifting the lid on the final pleasures and fears they suffer before they are led to their death.

The special, which airs on the TLC & Discovery Channel on Monday, is no doubt set to shock viewers across a country where the ultimate penalty for a crime remains widespread yet divisive.

[Lady Cop]

May 5. 10 PM eastern

good case!

CBS
48 Hours Mystery : The Writing on the Wall
NEW

Christopher Coleman, former head of security for televangelist Joyce Meyer, is convicted of murdering his wife and two children.

[ramseycat]

I will have to watch this one. I never heard about this but I do know who Joyce Meyer is.

[Lady Cop]

I will have to watch this one. I never heard about this but I do know who Joyce Meyer is.

it was an awful case Ramsey. how COULD he??








This Saturday marks the three-year anniversary of the brutal murders of Sheri Coleman and her son's Garret, 11, and Gavin, 9, found strangled to death in their Columbia, Illinois, home.

And to mark the event, 48 Hours Mystery, will air a program Saturday night re-examining the investigation into the murders.

But as the name of the show suggests, was there ever any mystery at all about the killer?

From the very outset, investigators suspected Christopher Coleman (Sheri's husband, and father two her children) murdered his family as they slept. First there was his cockamamie story about getting up early to go to the gym and then calling his family out of fear that a stalker may have come to their home.

Then there was the "stalker" whose email threats, investigators soon discovered, originated from Coleman's own laptop. That followed the revelation that Coleman kept a mistress in Florida, and told her that he would soon leave his wife family for her. Only, if he were to divorce Sheri, he knew he'd lose his well-paid job as a security guard with Joyce Meyer Ministries -- thus providing a motive.

Yep, as it turns out, the Coleman case was a bit of a slam-dunk. (A jury spent relatively little time last year -- on the second anniversary of the slayings -- convicting him of three counts of murder.)

48 Hours Mystery can -- and will -- provide an hour of spellbinding content on Saturday.

[Kip]

I followed the Coleman case from the morning the bodies were found. Like the Clarke/Straub case, there was a lot of info put out by locals commenting on the case that came out before it officially did in the media. Within a few hours,it became clear to almost everyone that Chris had done this.

I had figured the guilty verdict was a foregone conclusion and when it came in, I stopped reading about the case. I was shocked to hear in this show that the first vote the jury took was 7-5 for acquittal. Yes, the evidence was mostly circumstantial. But what a mound of it there was. And it was proven that Chris had made the threats against his family. And he had scratches on his arms. And there was the medical evidence that Sheri and the boys had been dead before Chris went to the gym. I thought a guilty verdict would be a slam dunk - I'm glad the jury finally got there, but it's scary to me that more than half the jury initially didn't think the case was strong enough.

Edited to add - I just wanted to say how much I hate CC's parents for how they treated Shari's family.

[Lady Cop]

this should be good tonight, 48 Hours on this case:


http://mockforums.net/post-249785.html#pid249785


10 PM eastern CBS

tonight May 26.

48 Hours Mystery
Episode: One of Their Own
NEW

More than two decades after a young nurse is found murdered in her home, police charge a detective with ties to the victim's husband with the crime.
10:00 - 11:00 PM CBS