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    The miniseries is based on the 1991 true crime book Cruel Doubt by Joe McGinniss, which documents the 1988 murder of Lieth Von Stein by his stepson, Chris Pritchard, and two friends, James Upchurch and Gerald Neal Henderson.

  2. Jan 1, 1991 · It is the true story of a family in NC in which the father is beaten and stabbed to death in his bed and his wife is left barely alive. Although they are a very non-social couple, they apparently have no enemies and it does not appear to be a robbery that went wrong.

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  3. Oct 2, 1991 · “Cruel Doubt” is the story of the Von Stein family, which easily qualifies as the most dysfunctional family in America. One steamy night in 1988, someone clubbed and stabbed Lieth Von Stein...

  4. May 15, 1992 · A couple of book publishers and two networks have inadvertently conspired to turn a small, true, sordid tale of family murder into a legend, the grim details of which every pop-cultured...

  5. One hot summer night in 1988, Bonnie Von Stein's second husband was murdered in their bed, Bonnie herself stabbed, beaten, and left for dead beside him. It looked like a brutal but tragically typical case: Von Stein was newly wealthy, and Bonnie's troubled son Chris, seemed like the obvious suspect.

  6. May 17, 1992 · In July 1988, 19-year-old Christopher Pritchard planned the murders of his stepfather, mother and sister. High on drugs and deeply into the fantasy game Dungeons and Dragons, Pritchard, a failing...

  7. In Cruel Doubt, Joe McGinniss probes the dark heart of family life and small-town North Carolina society to uncover a fascinating and terrifying story that is at once a chilling murder mystery, a tense courtroom drama, and a heartbreaking account of a mother forced to doubt her own children.

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