The Upside To My Addiction
Posted: January 27, 2008I watch a few different series that cover real life crime stories. It’s a guilty pleasure of mine and I can’t imagine a week without my 48 Hours Mystery, City Confidential, American Justice, or Cold Case Files and those are just the ones I watch all the time. I like to flick through the different channels to find random episodes of other series to tape.
The upside to this is occasionally the same series covers the same story and you get a chance to get an update. A&E’s American Justice covered the Marty Tankleff case. He was convicted in his late teens of murdering his parents on Long Island and has been fighting for release ever since. There were a lot of interesting elements to the case — unfair interrogation techniques, investigation procedures and even some celebrity help (James Gandolfini showed up at a hearing) but American Justice ended with Marty still in jail. I think the show was produced between 2003-2005, I can’t remember the exact date.
This morning, I watched an episode of CBS’s 48 Hours Mystery that taped last night and I almost deleted it from the DVR when I realized that it was the same case. But then I remembered that American Justice had been a few years ago and maybe there was some new developments. I was glad I watched because this time, the show (produced within the last year and first aired in 2008) ended with Marty being released and starting college on Monday.
It’s nice to know my television addiction has an upside 
