Girl in the Picture

Girl in the Picture

A young mother’s mysterious death and her son’s subsequent kidnapping blow open a decades-long mystery about the woman’s true identity, and the murderous federal fugitive at the center of it all.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 120 minutes
  • Genre: Crime, Documentaries
  • Stars: Natalie De Vincentiis, Mark Chinnery, Sarah French, Dana Mackin, Meg Schimelpfenig, Robert Christopher Smith
  • Director: Skye Borgman
 Comments
  • pattie_cakes - 2 January 2023
    More unraveling and heartbreaking from start to end
    This documentary came up as a suggested watch on my tv service. I figured I would give it a go, something to entertain during a late night first day of the new year watch.

    Boy, did I get into something so heart wrenching and sad before I even knew it.

    I looked at the tv, without my focused view missing the screen for every last minute of this documentary. Except when I paused to get up and collect my thoughts.

    This poor woman, her story, her potential, then it just unravelled in front of my eyes like a broken glass filled fruit by the foot. It kept giving, but not anything good...just the heartbreaking truth and more hurt and sadness. Sadness towards this woman, her son, daughter, and her real family. I could add even more, but I can't because the sadness is too real.

    This is one of the _____ (I leave it blank for my heart can't even describe it) documentaries that I have ever watched. I say that with a heavy heart because it's also one of the worst I have ever watched.

    Rest in peace to those who were lost in this heartbreaking story. I hope to never see anything as sad as this ever again.
  • BigChris777 - 30 August 2022
    Tragic. Beautiful.
    This is an excellent documentary, beautifully and respectfully told. The truth is unfathomable and brutal and it is told without the sensationalism or embellishments so often found in such true crime pieces. The pacing is spot on. Tragic and chilling, with increasing layers of deception and sadness unfolding that would be too much were this fiction. But this is also a tender tribute to the human spirit and to a promising life cut terribly short.

    The only thing missing perhaps would be a deeper insight into the forces that shaped the perpetrator - we're offered an intriguing glimpse - and how he escaped detection for so long.