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FAMILY SECRETS ON JUNE 26 |
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Written by ABC
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| CYNTHIA MCFADDEN'S EXCLUSIVE
INTERVIEW WITH A YOUNG MOTHER ACCUSED OF GRUESOMELY MURDERING HER
HUSBAND, ON THE DEBUT OF "PRIMETIME: FAMILY SECRETS" |
| Six-Part Series Airing Tuesdays Premieres June 26 on ABC |
"Primetime"
kicks off the summer with its latest limited series, "Primetime: Family
Secrets." The series goes behind closed doors to learn secrets most
families would never talk about, starting with the story of a young
mother accused of the gruesome murder of her husband, the father of
their two young sons. She speaks exclusively with Cynthia McFadden
about why she says her husband was found dismembered in the Chesapeake
Bay. "Primetime: Family Secrets" examines the poignant and sometimes
shocking secrets of families -- why they keep them, how they keep them,
and what happens when the truth finally surfaces. The series premieres
TUESDAY, JUNE 26 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) and continues on subsequent
Tuesday nights (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) through JULY 31 on the ABC
Television Network.
The premiere of "Primetime: Family
Secrets" takes up the story and secrets of Melanie McGuire, who three
years ago was a well-respected fertility clinic nurse living in New
Jersey with her husband, Bill, a computer programmer, and their two
young sons. But one night Bill vanished, and a year later Melanie was
charged with his gruesome murder. Could she, a petite nurse with no
history of violence and no apparent motive, have taken her husband's
life? Cynthia McFadden sits down with Melanie to hear what she says
were the surprising secrets she and her husband were living prior to
his death.
Bill and Melanie were married two years after
they met in 1997. But Melanie says slowly things changed, as he began
gambling heavily. By 2003, Melanie tells McFadden, her husband was
becoming threatening. She recalls that one time, after Bill got a
speeding ticket, he called her saying, "When I get home I'm going to
kill you. I'm going to smash your face in." But Melanie had her own
secret. She was having an affair with a married doctor at the fertility
clinic where she worked. Melanie tells McFadden that, despite the fact
that she was "deeply in love with him," they never had plans to divorce
their spouses because their children came first.
On the
night Bill went missing, the couple had just closed on a new $500,000
home. Melanie says that a fight ensued and, "before I know it, I'm up
against the wall and then he just smacked me." She says Bill stormed
out and she never saw him again.
Prosecutors say that, while
virtually no physical evidence and no eyewitnesses link her to the
crime, the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming. Melanie told ABC
News that, although the evidence is "a mountain... a lot of
coincidences... it doesn't mean I did it." But could this nurse have
committed such a cold-blooded crime -- drugging, shooting and
dismembering her husband? According to her, "the bottom line is, am I
an angel? Am I perfect person? Absolutely not. But that doesn't make me
a sociopath or a killer." |
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