"Dateline: The Last Day," premiering on Peacock June 14, is "powered by an intense examination into a victim’s final 24 hours, where the first clues to a puzzling mystery can often be found."
Eddie Munson, played by Joseph Quinn, is based upon Damien Echols, who was one of three metalheads blamed for the murders of three 8-year-old boys in Arkansas in 1993.
Ashley Stayner is a fan of the genre despite being intimately connected to two major true crime tales: the kidnapping of her father Steven and the conviction of her uncle Cary Stayner of multiple murders.
A terrified caller identifying herself as 15-year-old Sarah Jessop Barlow said she was being sexually abused her much older husband, launching a massive raid on The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' ranch in Texas, but she didn't actually exist.
Investigators discovered more than 700 pieces of evidence during a 2008 raid on the polygamist property, including marriage records, a daily account of leader Warren Jeffs' activities and a disturbing audio tape prosecutors said captured the sexual assault of a 12-year-old child bride.
Naomie Jeffs, who was ultimately exiled from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) community, says she has “no hard feelings” toward her ex-husband and polygamist leader Warren Jeffs.
Steven Stayner became a national hero after escaping his kidnapper and rescuing his fellow captive Timmy White in 1980. Years later, his brother Cary Stayner would go on to murder four people.
