Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest

(1997)

A young executive starts an affair with his boss's wife which then escalates into a nightmare after he lies to the police in order to protect her.

The renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered.

An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, he rounds up a few of his fellow ex-prisoners to confirm the man's identity.

A series of strangulation murders of Boston women sparks a protracted complex manhunt. Law professor John Bottomley leads a multi-jurisdictional task force in the investigation, with help from surviving victim Diane Cluny.

Amid the political turmoil of 1977 Brazil, a technology expert is forced into hiding and seeks help from the underground resistance as he tries to flee the country with his young son.

A mysterious inspector investigates the wealthy Birling family and their dinner guest following the suicide of a young woman.

A big city reporter travels to a small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman for whom she worked as a housekeeper.

A former L.A. drug dealer has moved to Houston to make a new life for himself as a married architect. Everything falls apart when he is suddenly visited by one of his former cohorts who comes carrying heroin.

An experienced investigator confronts several conflicting theories about the perpetrators of a violent double homicide.

A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.