The 1967 murder of NAACP leader Wharlest Jackson Sr. “Frontline: American Reckoning” (PBS, November TBA) The impact of Eileen Franklin’s recollection on the legal and mental health communities is a drama unto itself and even overshadows the horrific crime that precipitated this decades-old family/courtroom saga. The docuseries follows the consequences of that fateful decision via the first-person testimonials of family, neighbors, memory experts and law enforcement and mental health professionals, exploring the questions it sparked about the accuracy and reliability of “repressed memory,” especially when applied to traumatic events. Never before had recovered memory been used in a criminal prosecution. It led to the reopening of the 20-year-old cold case, and in a shocking twist, Franklin remembered that the culprit was her own father, George Franklin.Īrmed with Eileen’s story, San Mateo County prosecutors won a conviction in 1990, sentencing George to life in prison. How reliable is the human memory? Dependable enough to convict someone of murder decades after a crime? “Buried” follows the gripping story of Eileen Franklin, who, while playing with her young daughter, suddenly had a memory of witnessing the 1969 rape and murder of her childhood best friend, 8-year-old Susan Nason, in their hometown of Foster City, Calif. The landmark verdict rocked the criminal justice system, and its repercussions are still being debated today.
They determined he had as many as 24 distinct “multiples,” which led a jury to find Milligan innocent by reason of insanity. French film director Olivier Megaton (“Taken 2" and “3") applies a cinematic lens to the docuseries format as he follows the Milligan family, friends, doctors and law enforcement who are still trying to understand Milligan’s state of mind at the time of his alleged crimes and at trial.Ī litany of psychiatrists diagnosed Milligan, who was in his 20s when he was accused, with “multiple personality disorder” (known now as dissociative identity disorder).
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But were his multiple personalities really controlling his actions, or were they simply the pretext of a dangerous, narcissistic sociopath? Netflix’s four-part investigative series revisits those questions, and the crimes of the rapist who terrorized Ohio State University before his arrest and made subsequent claims that he had no memory of the assaults. history to cite multiple personality disorder in an insanity defense. In 1978, Billy Milligan became the first person in U.S. Is there a realistic chance for an appeal, or do the supporters of the incarcerated need to face the crushing truth that their loved one may have been rightfully convicted of murder? The duo help the emotionally stuck families of the convicted move on, one way or another.
Silva and Anderson review the evidence with law enforcement and witnesses familiar with the case and consult with outside forensic teams and experts before coming to their own conclusions. 21, often focuses on the cases of convicts who don’t have the resources to employ their own private detectives or non-court-appointed defense attorneys to clear their names. 20 and will be available to stream on Discovery+ Sept. The series, which wraps up its fourth season Sept. The duo use their collective expertise, and plenty of outside resources, to reexamine murder cases at the request of families and advocates who believe the wrong person is behind bars. Together, Fatima Silva and Chris Anderson make up the team behind “Reasonable Doubt,” ID’s weekly half-hour forensic investigative series that seeks to uncover the truth behind contested convictions.
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