Being a young female, I think back to my high school days and it's horrifying to think that a teenager could be murdered by people she loves and trusts and that the victims own mother could let a killer move into the house without knowing it. I would say this movie is about 90 percent accurate. Many of the things in the movie happened in real life, except that the real Ellen was not thrown out of the house by Patty Dukes character. This was a shocking movie because the mother defended and loved her daughters killers but also because Jenny did nothing wrong. Jenny was very innocent; she didn't know how disturbed her "friends" were and I don't believe the real girl slept with their boyfriends;the real Carla and Ellen were just upset and jealous because things in lives didn't work out for them.Carla and Ellen made bad choices and blamed Jenny because her life was going great; she was pretty, popular, and about to go off to college,while Ellen had a baby she couldn't support and later we find that Carla used drugs.Both Tiffany Theissen and Patty Duke do a wonderful job in this very sad movie. Patty Dukes performance as a heart broken mother is tear jerking and the murder scene is heart wrenching. I love the last scene where Patty Duke says," We love you Jenny Sleep with the angles" It was a beautiful way to end the movie.

This is one of the few times a true story is nearly made unbelievable by the idiotic cast of characters. Fortunately, the presence of Patty Duke holds it together somewhat, although for most of the movie, she's as bad as everyone else. It seems that everyone in the world is completely blind to the fact that the real killer is the loon that they've decided is their friend... they miss things like "Jenny told her in a dream," and "You need to go kill him, he did it. And bring me a finger to prove he's dead." Of course, she's not going to just join the lynch mob/family... she's apparently going to wait at home. If you want to know the story, which is tragic, but interesting, read the book... don't waste your time on this movie unless you've nothing else to do and you're snowed in.

The fact that this is based on a true story make this movie all the more horrifying. Based upon the true crime novel, "Missy's Murder" by Karen Kingsbury, the movie surrounds the death of a high school girl whose body was found in a nearby river with a 100lb log on her body, and a mother's search for justice.This is probably one of my favorite TV movies. Patty Duke moved me as Jean Monroe, a mother who would do anything to find out who killed her only daughter. My favorite line of all, when Jean confronts Det. Staley (Loretta Swit) and says "I may be a little woman, but I have a big mouth." Having seen the real woman whom Patty portrayed, I have no doubt in my mind that the line was actually said.Ellen was probably one of the most vindictive manipulators I have ever seen. She finds a way to move into her dead friend's home with her young child (in her room no less!) and then starts wearing her clothes and trying to be her. The fact that she made her own child say that she knew who killed Jenny, was one of the most horrible things I have ever seen. SPOILER ALERT!!! By the time you find out that Ellen and Carla were the murders, you are thrilled that Jean smacks Ellen on the face, yet panged that Ellen and Carla led her on for so many years. IF you haven't read "Missy's Murder", you should really try to seek it out. I got mine off eBay after a bidding war.

A Killer Among Friends. The very title creeps me out. I personally enjoyed this movie. But, I agree, Ellen was very twisted. Jenny hadn't done anything wrong. She didn't deserve to die. Ellen should have hanged. I have a question for anybody who's seen it. There was a character by the name of Susan.......where do we see Susan?