Murder Without Conviction (2004 TV Movie)
7/10
Motive for Murder
11 April 2012
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** Having just been released from her vows ex Catholic nun Christine Bennett, Megan Ward, gets a job as a counselor at the Greewood Sanitarium. It's Greenwood that's under fire by the local community in having an accused, but not convicted ,murder as one of it's patients. It's the 55 year old mentally challenged, with a borderline moronic IQ of 70, James Talley, john Proval, who's been admitted to the sanitarium and the people of the neighboring town of Oakwood are up in arms against it. The fact that both James and his twin brother,also played by Mr. Proval,were deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial technically made them innocent in the brutal murder of their mom Alberta Talley, Laura Kirk, some 30 years ago on Good Friday 1974.

With James separated from his twin brother Edward,who were both diagnosed as idiot savants, since their mom's murder his mental state has deteriorated to the point where he stopped talking and became almost a mute. It's Christina who realizes that if both the two brother were reunited their brains would click, like two missing pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, and remember who was responsible for their mom's murder. Since the two were at the scene of the crime! As Christina together with the help of local Oakwood police detective Jack Brooks,Morgan Weisser, start to uncover the truth about Mrs. Talley's murder and the person responsible for it the killer comes out of hiding and plans to murder one if not both twins. That's before they get a chance too put their heads together and expose his true identity!

Pretty good made for TV murder mystery with Christine putting her life on the line in order to find the true killer of Mrs.Talley. After going down a number of blind alleys Christine finally gets the two brother together in the same place,a Catholic Church,where they have a chance to put their heads together and remember who murdered their mom which many people feel they were responsible for. As it soon turned out one of the people invited to the meeting was in fact the person who not only murdered Mrs.Talley but who was planning to murder both her sons James & Edward together with the pesky and annoying Chrisna Bennett!

***SPOILERS*** Shocking final were the murderer was reviled by the twin brothers who then held Christina hostage with a hypodermic needle,loaded with morphine, pointed at her jugular threatening to kill her. In him finally seeing that there's no way out and that the jig was up him the killer did the next best thing! By him doing himself instead of Christina in! The film besides having David Proval play both twins James & Edward parts it also had two different sets of twin brothers Rafael & Yan Feldman and Daryl & Even Sabara play both Jack & Edward at different ages,10 & 24, in their lives.
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