False Arrest | |
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Genre | Drama |
Based on | False Arrest: The Joyce Lukezic Story |
Written by | Joyce Lukezic Ted Schwarz Andrew Laskos |
Directed by | Bill L. Norton |
Starring | |
Music by | Sylvester Levay |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producers | Joel Fields Ronald H. Gilbert Leonard Hill |
Producers | Ardythe Goergens (co-producer) Susan Daria Landino (associate producer) Andrew Laskos (co-producer) |
Cinematography | Robert Draper |
Editor | Mark W. Rosenbaum |
Running time | 192 minutes |
Production companies | Joel Fields Productions Leonard Hill Films Ron Gilbert Associates |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | November 3 – November 6, 1991 |
False Arrest is a 1991 American television film based on the real-life murders of William Redmond and Helen Phelps and the true story of Joyce Lukezic, who was wrongfully convicted of being one of the masterminds behind the murders. Directed by Bill L. Norton and starring Donna Mills and Steven Bauer, the film was broadcast in two parts on November 3 and 6, 1991. [1]
On New Year's Eve 1980, in Phoenix, Arizona, William "Pat" Redmond, his wife, Marilyn, and her mother; Helen Phelps, are hustled into a bedroom in their house by three men with guns and are each shot in the back of the head. Both Pat and Phelps die while Marilyn survives. Joyce Lukezic, the wife of Pat Redmond's business partner, Ron Lukezic, is charged with masterminding the murders.
After going to jail, Joyce suffers a heart attack, is abandoned by her lawyer and husband, and is attacked in prison. She also attempts suicide. When Joyce gets a new lawyer, she tells him she suspects her husband is the true mastermind behind the murders. She eventually gets a retrial and is found innocent.
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On December 31, 1980, William Patrick "Pat" Redmond and his mother-in-law Helen Genevieve Phelps were murdered at Redmond's home in Phoenix, Arizona. Three men knocked on the door of Redmond's home holding a gun and ordered Redmond, Phelps, and Redmond's wife, Marilyn, to a bedroom, where they were forced to lie down as their hands were bound. William was then fatally shot in the back of the head along with Phelps. Marilyn was also shot in the back of the head but survived.