Name: Rude Awakening
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 25 min

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Court TV

Penny Scaggs believes in being a dutiful Christian wife and even teaches local women how to build harmonious relationships; she is later found brutally beaten and stabbed beside her beloved yellow piano.

Someone They Knew With Tamron Hall

The Perfect Wife

The people of Defiance, Iowa, find it strange when Scott Shanahan disappears, leaving his wife and kids, but Scott is always unpredictable and no one gives it much more thought.

A Year in Defiance

Bonny Lee Bakley had nine husbands before she meets former "Baretta" star Robert Blake, and he would be her last; as she waits for Blake outside a Los Angeles restaurant, someone approaches her car and shoots her in the head.

If You Can't Do the Time

When drug-addicted casino owner Ted Binion turns up dead in his mansion, the suspects are pure Vegas: an ex-stripper girlfriend, a contractor who knew where his silver was buried, and a mob boss who launders money through his casino.

What Happens in Vegas

Austin, Texas, TV executive Steven Beard is shot as he sleeps; with only a single shotgun shell to go on, police follow a trail from mansions and country clubs to bookstores and hospital psych wards.

Rude Awakening

Iowa farmer Tom Lyon is excited when a nearby plot of land goes up for sale, but he isn't the only one. When Lyon's body is discovered at the bottom of a well, the trail of blood leads through that very land.

The Promised Land

When teenager Dennis Lewis is killed fighting off home invaders, all police have to go on is a single handprint; when lab results reveal who the print belongs to, no one wants to believe it.

Mirror Image

Rosemarie Essa appears to die in a car crash; when police learn this was no more than a low-speed fender bender, they begin to suspect foul play by someone who knew what they were doing.

Medical Mystery

On the surface the Carters seemed like a happy family of Iowa farmers, but when they discover Shirley Carter shot to death in her kitchen, the family begins pointing fingers at each other.

Family Business

When an unknown assailant guns down sheriff-elect Derwin Brown shortly after winning his election, investigators suspect a political assassination, only to instead uncover an extensive trail of corruption.

Who Shot The Sheriff?

Ashley Biggs thought it was just another pizza delivery, and didn't know who was waiting on the other end; she didn't come back, and police found the delivery address abandoned, with a pool of blood on the ground.

Last Call

Successful Atlanta entrepreneur Lance Herndon usually got what he wanted, but when he is found bludgeoned to death in his waterbed, it appeared he got more than he could handle, possibly due to a business deal gone wrong or a girlfriend's revenge.

Too Close to the Sun

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Following the path from victim to verdict and exploring how, when it comes to murder, it is rare for there to be no prior connection between the killer and the deceased.

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