Lifetime TV Movie Takes On Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story

The story of the Suitcase Killer, Melanie McGuire is coming to Lifetime as a true-crime story. Titled Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story, the true-crime movie tells the story of a former fertility nurse and mother of two children, who brutally murdered her husband. Read on to find out about this new movie, coming to Lifetime in June this year.

Suitcase Killer – The Melanie McGuire Story on Lifetime

Back in 2005, Melanie McQuire was arrested for the murder of her husband. She was further convicted in 2007 of desecration of human remains after she dismembered her husband’s body. She packed the pieces of his body into a number of suitcases, dumping them off a bridge in 2004. An upcoming movie Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story will be released on Lifetime and follows the real-life case.

McGuire was a former fertility nurse and mother of two children from Woodbridge. According to prosecutors, she started a relationship with a doctor at the clinic where she worked. In the trial, the prosecutors accused McGuire of killing her husband, 39, in their Woodbridge home so that she could be with the doctor. She drugged and then shot her husband, William McGuire. The court found her guilty of dismembering his body with a power saw and packing it into three cases that ended up in the Chesapeake Bay.

\McGuire, 49, is serving a life sentence at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton. She maintains that she is not guilty and has unsuccessfully tried to appeal her conviction.

 Suitcase Killer – About The Lifetime movie

The Lifetime movie, Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story, features Candice King (Vampire Diaries) in the role of McGuire. Her husband, William McGuire, is played by Michael Roark (The Young and the Restless). Meanwhile, Jackson Hurst (Sharp Objects) plays the role of the doctor, Bradley Miller. The role of Patricia Prezioso, the former state assistant attorney general who prosecuted the case is played by Wendie Malick (Young Sheldon).

Meanwhile, McGuire, who worked at Reproductive Medical Associates in Morristown prior to her arrest, has been the subject of other productions.

Her story has been told in The Secret in the Suitcase, as well as the 2019 true-crime podcast Direct Appeal, a 2020 episode of ABC’s 20/20 and in a 2020 edition of Forensic Files II on HLN and other shows.

According to Futon Critic, Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story premieres on Saturday, June 18 at 8 pm ET on Lifetime.