Name: The Perfect Victim
Genre: Crime, Documentary
Released: 2012-01-01
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 6

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For over thirty years, three women have languished in Missouri State prison under unjust sentences for killing their abusive husbands. Denied the opportunity to enter the abuse into evidence, each of the women represents a system broken by outdated and media-sensationalized stereotypes. When a greater understanding of the "battered" syndrome change legal practices in 2000, Missouri's Governor crafts a new law demanding the parole board reevaluate each woman's case.

Theatrical

Jan 1, 2012

Director

Elizabeth Rohrbaugh

Producers

Lindsay Nowak, Elizabeth Rohrbaugh, Louis Venezia

Music

Daniel Miller

Studio

Golden Hawk Pictures, Pilot Productions

Keywords

homicide women's prison missouri domestic abuse female prisoner domestic violence physical abuse life sentence stereotype abusive husband criminal justice mental abuse murder of husband