American Tragedy, An

[Available currently on Tubi, Peacock, and Roku.] Lisa Rhoden Boyd's compelling, poignant, heartbreaking, candid, unsettling, 84-minute, 2018 documentary highlighted by striking photography and consists of archival film clips and insightful commentary by inmates Jeffrey Ferguson and Kenneth Ousley, victim's father Jim Hall, Police Chief Patrick McCarrick, district attorney Robert McCullough, boyfriend Tim Parres, witness Bob Stulce, mother Sue King, brother Steven Hall, Jeffrey's daughter Jennifer Ferguson, warden Troy Steele, chaplain Melvin Sklein, and neighbors Sandra Mitchell and Diana Williams to chronicle the murder of 17-year-old station employee Kelli Patricia Hall in St. Charles, Mo., in 1989, and the arrest of suspect Jeffrey R. Ferguson, whose friend Kenneth Ousley was also incarcerated, who ended up on death row for 26 years after he was sentenced to death by lethal injection.
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