Heartbreakers
2014 · Investigation Discovery · 60 min · 1 season
S01E03 · Tainted Love
Thu, 28 Aug, 12:00 pm
On New Year's Day in 1991, David Russell Miller, a wealthy businessman, and Jayne, a beautiful single mother, boarded a flight from Orlando to Los Angeles. It would change both of their lives. The chance encounter led to a whirlwind romance and a Valentine's Day marriage six weeks later. It was a fairytale life full of expensive dinners, exotic travel and extravagant living that they both loved. But there would be no happy ending. After a few months of marriage, private investigator Bob Brown made some startling discoveries about the dark secrets that had been hidden. Once exposed, a standoff occurred and one of them was left the victim of a brutal and gruesome killing in broad daylight.
About
In Heartbreakers, hunky Hollywood actors from the '80s and '90s reunite on screen to portray real-life dreamboats who turned into total nightmares. Directed and written in a sensational, Aaron Spelling-esque style reminiscent of classic prime time soaps, Heartbreakers takes true stories ripped from the headlines to show what really happens when the perfect catch turns out to be the perfect criminal.
Heartbreakers is rooted in real stories that are already truly unbelievable on their own. The series also features interviews and behind-the-scenes commentary with the actual people involved, layering in context and additional information about each case. And not to disappoint, Heartbreakers provides a nod to the actors' previous lives in the prime time soap world, dropping little golden surprises that are sure to appeal to the fan's sense of nostalgia.
Episodes
- E01
Losing My Religion
Thu, 14 Aug· 60 minPastor David "Brother" Love presides over a close-knit church in a community outside of Kansas City in 2000. The parishioners admire him, maybe none more so than Randy Stone, a loyal church member and one of his closest friends. But loyalties are tested when Love becomes too close with Randy's wife, Teresa. The forbidden relationship leads to a decade-long affair full of secrets and lies. Manipulation, jealous, money and heartbreak all play a part in this chilling story that leads to a shocking investigation of murder.
- E02
Shot Through the Heart
Thu, 21 Aug· 60 minSet in the mid-1980s, a small Texas town is rocked by a love triangle that takes place at its junior high school. Principal Hurley Fontenot leaves his wife to be with the pretty, young new school clerk, Laura Nugent. Their relationship is blossoming, that is until Billy Mac Fleming comes to town. Fleming, the new football coach, swept Laura off her feet. Both men wanted her, but only one could have her. It was a classic showdown of brains versus brawn. They would all end up heartbroken, but one would end up in a dark, desolate ditch, the victim of an execution-style murder.
- E03
Tainted Love
Thu, 28 Aug· 60 minOn New Year's Day in 1991, David Russell Miller, a wealthy businessman, and Jayne, a beautiful single mother, boarded a flight from Orlando to Los Angeles. It would change both of their lives. The chance encounter led to a whirlwind romance and a Valentine's Day marriage six weeks later. It was a fairytale life full of expensive dinners, exotic travel and extravagant living that they both loved. But there would be no happy ending. After a few months of marriage, private investigator Bob Brown made some startling discoveries about the dark secrets that had been hidden. Once exposed, a standoff occurred and one of them was left the victim of a brutal and gruesome killing in broad daylight.
