Tear Jerker / A Crime To Remember

This is a series that covers famous crimes (especially murders) but some moments from the series stand out, here they are:

• The Carol Thompson case. She was a young wife and mother who wanted to go back to college and get a career and travel to the Soviet Union and she loved her children. Only for her to be put a hit on her by her philandering and Stay in the Kitchen husband Cotton, even her affair with a dear man doesn't go very far.
  • The most heartbreaking is the testimony by her now grown son, who remembers being manipulated by his father to putting a a chain lock on the door (which impeded Carol's escape from her killer) and about how his father got arrested for the murder of his mother on his birthday.
    Jeffrey Thompson: Happy Birthday Jeff.
• Debra Miller tearing up talking about the death of her father Cork and about her mother Lucille, grappling with the idea that maybe her mother murdered her father or left him to die and about how she knows her Mother is sneaky but she is her mother after all....gets hard to watch.
• Some of the covers of famous old songs, played over the credits get like this, even famous lullabys like "Beautiful Dreamer" leave you tearing up.
• Pretty much all the reenactments where, after we have gotten to know what the victims were like in life, is to see them in their last moments. Either with or without the knowledge their lives will end. In the case of the Clutter Family massacre, Mrs. Clutter gets to hear her husband shot to death and she sobs while restrained physically, knowing she is next.
  • The reflections on what the victims were like and what they were dreaming about hurt the most. They were loved by people, they had goals, they were making their own lives, just normal people living their lives until someone decided to end their lives in hideous fashions.
• The ending of "Lock Up Your Daughters": the small town of Gaffney, South Carolina puts aside racial differences and prejudices aside to hunt down a strangler targeting both white and black women, and some of the men are huddled around the body of a woman. The men exchange very somber looks.
• The ending of "Luck Be A Lady" while the episode (based on real events) played like a dark comedy is this: Sharon Kinne has escaped from prison in Mexico and was never found again and upon hearing the news of her escape Detective Browning quits. Also that her victims haven't achieved justice and she has gotten away. A Detective gets no catharsis. A little girl is traumatized by the death of her father and by the sheer manipulative audacity of her mother. A pair of parents lose their son and were blackmailed by their hated daughter in law's lawyer into supporting her or they won't see their grandchildren. The Bad Guy Wins.