Into the Abyss (2011)

188 min · Documentation, documentary film, drama film, prison film

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Directors

Werner Herzog

The story

On October 24, 2001, 50-year-old nurse Sandra Stotler was murdered in her house in a gated community outside of Conroe, Texas, and her body was dumped in a nearby lake. A few days later, Michael Perry and Jason Burkett, both 19 years old, were arrested for Sandra's murder, and details in Michael's confession led law enforcement to the bodies of Sandra's grandson Adam (who Sandra was raising) and Adam's friend Jeremy Richardson, who were killed the same day as Sandra, but in a different location. According to a representative of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department, Michael and Jason, who were acquaintances of Adam and Jeremy,…

Catalogue themes and tags

Amends, Atonement, Death Penalty, Doomed Man, Ermordung, Gefängnis, Gewissen, Hinrichtung, Imprisonment, Justiz, Maximum Security Prison, Mordzeugin, Motive, Murderer, Prison Sentence, Punishment, Purification, Remorse, Schuld und Sühne, Sense of Guilt, Sträfling, Texas, Vorstellung, häftlinge, Crime, Documentary

Genres

Documentation, documentary film, drama film, prison film

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