David Richmond the real Timothy Dolan

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Plot: A mother (Patty Duke) goes to Chicago to try to find her son (Robert Floyd) who has suddenly quit contacting her and can't be reached.

Reality: On September 6, 1992, in the early morning hours, Michele Roger brutally murdered David A. Richmond, her lover. Roger stabbed Richmond while he was sleeping, because she wanted to terminate their relationship. After stabbing him at least 2 additional times while they struggled, Roger, not knowing whether he was alive or not, left their home to go to her parents, where they cleaned her up and discussed what to do over coffee. Roger and her father returned to the condo to find that Richmond was "no longer alive".
During the daylight hours of the 6th of September, the Roger family removed Richmond's body by wrapping it in bloody carpeting cut from their bedroom floor. The body was then burned, the remains mixed with cement, and the the hardened result dumped into the Atlantic Ocean, from their boat, by Mr. Roger and his son.
Michele Roger is currently serving a 17 year sentence in the Florida Correctional System, for the murder of David Richmond. Roger is eligible for release from prison in the year 2006.



Agnes Roger, Michelle's mother "claimed" she saw David put his finger in her nostrils, pull her hair, and bite on her lips.

In 1999 Michele won clemency and had her 17 year sentence commuted to probation.

"She hopes to raise dogs for the visually impaired and wants to study to be a veterinary assistant," her mother, Agnes Roger of Oviedo, wrote in a letter to then-Gov. Lawton Chiles in September. "My daughter will be living at home with me and my husband." (Orlando Sentinel, Rene Struzman 1999)

The Roger Family and the trial

"The private investigator my family hired was a big reason we ever even went to trial in the first place. He was a wonderful man and helped my family through many obstacles over the course of the investigation. Not much was being done, in the beginning, because there was no body of evidence. Even when it was all said and done, justice was not served. The sentences handed out to the Roger family, were basically just a slap on the wrist, Michelle included. She was sentenced to 17 years and only served five. What happened to my family was deplorable and we have never been the same since. Not a day goes by that I don't think of David and how our lives would be vastly different if he had never gone to Florida and met Michelle. Nothing can be said or done to make that all go away. I carry it with me always. But had it not been for the investigator and the witnesses testimony, we never would have received the little justice that we got."

Disappearing Act aka When He Didn't Come Home is a True Story

This story is based on the murder of David Richmond by his fiance Michelle Ashley Roger.