This was the first episode of "Blood Relatives" that I had seen, a show that appears on Investigation Discovery that is basically about a homicide where the immediate family is suspected - sometimes guilty, sometimes not.
At one point the narrator talks about "how this story could be ripped from the pages of a film noir". Well, he was right about that, because nobody showcased is remotely likeable. It's about the Tormassi family of Bridgewater Connecticut. Dad is given to physically abusing mom, who is all of 4 foot 11 and petite. The children are given to bullying one another. And mom takes the cake, and it's a big cake. She is having an affair with one of their tenants in their rental property, and practically sets things up where she gets caught. She also empties her own kids' college accounts to buy fancy Italian shoes. You see, dad may not have it anymore in the sex department, but mom still loves the moola.
Then one night she is shot dead in her driveway. It's pretty hard to feel too terribly bad for her, but there is the matter of law and order. One son was actually in the house when the police arrive after being summoned by neighbors who heard the gunshots. Another son runs back to his house after telling police he saw the murder and gave chase to the killer but lost him. Dad was conveniently at his rental properties doing a routine maintenance check, knocking on doors and asking people if their unit needed maintenance. I've never had a landlord like that have you?
So who was it? One of the kids, dad via hitman, the boyfriend maybe? Somebody else completely? Watch and find out. The plot thickens when somebody unrelated to the family showed up in the driveway just minutes before the murder and saw something important, and there is also a "beyond the grave confession".
The melodramatic touches that could be left out? They keep breaking to a white rose with blood dropping on it and also to a spider who is scampering around different parts of the house. Forensic Files would never do this, and it just led to some eyerolling on my part. I would have given this an 8/10 if not for the goofy melodramatics.