I'm not talking about "From The Files of UM" movies you see on Lifetime (as they apparently own the rights to all of these too) but something you'd actually go see in the theater and would have some box office potential?

Do any of them qualify?

I always thought the case of Bobbi Parker and Randolph Dial would make a good film. I mean here you have in my opinion a convict in Stacks words who could "charm the devil" who either runs off with/abducts (depending on whose side you believe) with the warden's wife. You could built character sketches on both Bobbi and Dial as two people who possibly both desired to "escape" their current lifestyle/situation. You can have Randy Parker persue all the leads trying to find his wife all the while wondering whether she is a victim or an accomplice to Dial's escape. It would make a pretty decent film in my mind if a little poetic license was used and you could get a pretty good backstory on it. I think though in the film Dial would either come off like a total ***** or a bit of an anti-hero to some people but I dunno I think he is an interesting enough character to base a film on and the story is definatley solid.

Later.

I was very interested in the Don Decker case, and would've liked to see that as a movie. They could've explained his relationship with his grandfather, etc. and then gone into the weird phenomena he was experiencing.

i think either the charles morgan or danny casolaro cases would make an excellent movie, or maybe the one about linda sherman.

Interesting question....any thoughts on the Lisa Marie Kimmell case?

I think the 1989 murder of Dan Short would make a good movie. It's not too often that you hear stories about someone robbing a bank by kidnapping the bank president (or any other bank employee) and sending him to his bank late at night. He was the same bank president who was killed by being tied to a chair and thrown into a river. (The case was solved a few years the murder took place.)

Interesting question....any thoughts on the Lisa Marie Kimmell case?

Mrs. Kimmell, you seem open to a movie on your daughter's case. By necessity, that would lead to a depiction of Lisa's abduction and her horrific final days before the murder. Frankly, and I'm sure you realize this, anything a movie depicts would be much tamer than what Lisa actually experienced, but still brutally uncomfortable to view especially for family members. I'm sure the writer and producer would want to focus on the kidnapping aspect becuase it was unique, held for several days instead of killed immediately, and also since they would have little else to zero in on other than the dogged pursuit of the Honda.

Her case is definitely TV movie material. I'm surprised no one has contacted your family in that regard, if they have not. The 15 year hunt for the car, and therefore Lisa's abductor, is extremely unique and interesting, IMO.

Big screen commercial movies are now focused on worldwide distribution for maximum box office with as little alteration as possible due to language, etc. That's why simpleton action flicks are in monotonous vogue, and a necessity for smashups and screams and profanity in every quadrant of the screen for two hours, with very little emphasis on dialogue or clever plot. I can't think of a single UM case that is ideal for contemporary movie theater viewing, unless a company/influential individual took special interest and wasn't obsessed with the bottom line.

Hi Awsi Dooger,

Thanx for your input. In fact, there is a possible screenplay in the works and that's why I posed the question. I agree that this will not be rated PG or PG 13 or suitable for family viewing. Even though is it based on the book I wrote, the screenplay will be quite different. Now I know why people often say the movie wasn't anything like the book. Yes, there is no avoiding Lisa's abuction and murder but that will not be the primary focus / plot. But anyway, we will see how it goes and thanx again for your comments. If you or anyone else on the board have any other comments, I would welcome them.

Sheila

Hi Awsi Dooger,

Thanx for your input. In fact, there is a possible screenplay in the works and that's why I posed the question. I agree that this will not be rated PG or PG 13 or suitable for family viewing. Even though is it based on the book I wrote, the screenplay will be quite different. Now I know why people often say the movie wasn't anything like the book. Yes, there is no avoiding Lisa's abuction and murder but that will not be the primary focus / plot. But anyway, we will see how it goes and thanx again for your comments. If you or anyone else on the board have any other comments, I would welcome them.

Sheila

I didn't realize you wrote a book. What is the title?

Best of luck on the potential screenplay. I'm glad the abduction will not be the central focus. BTW, what will be the primary focus of the plot, if you can give that away?

I didn't realize you wrote a book. What is the title?

Best of luck on the potential screenplay. I'm glad the abduction will not be the central focus. BTW, what will be the primary focus of the plot, if you can give that away?

Hi Awsi Dooger

Sorry to respond so late but to answer some of your questions - the name of the book is The Murder of Lil' Miss. It should be ready for release by July 10th. Hmmmm, the screenplay? I would have to say the primary focus is on the serial killer therory. I must confess I am less enthusiastic about the screenplay. I had a great deal of control in how my book was written, however that is not the case with the screenplay. My role in this process is that of a consultant and that's about the extent of it.

Sheila Kimmell

Well Jeepers Creepers ripped of the Unsolved Mysteries segment of Dennis DePue and the similarities worked in that film. Most of the segments on the show would be good for a made for t.v. movie but not a major motion picture, JMO.

The haunted bunkbeds.....

That would make a good horror flick, no?