Happy Face Murders

An eccentric older woman implicates her brutal & controlling lover in the murder of a young girl. Absorbed with "Murder She Wrote" and "Matlock", she creates details of the murder from clues she picks up from the detectives on the case. Implicating herself and sentenced to jail, she then recants her testimony. But no one believes her until clues surface from the real killer that he is still out there, has killed before, and will kill again. He signs his messages with Happy Faces.

Cast

Ann-Margret

as Lorraine Petrovich

Marg Helgenberger

as Jen Powell

Henry Thomas

as Dylan McCarthy

Nicholas Campbell

as Rusty Zuvic

Rick Peters

as Billy Lee Peterson

David McIlwraith

as Alan Sanford

Bruce Gray

as Ephraim Quince

J.C. MacKenzie

as Ed Baker

Emily Hampshire

as Tracy Billings

Anthony J. Mifsud

as Gary Martin

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