Just a reminder of an A&E cable network broadcast tonight (Wednesday). 9PM Eastern. Check local listings:
Mail Order Murder
It was an unconventional love story, at best. Russian teenager Anastasia Solovieva had the looks of a model, a vivacious personality and a thirst for education and adventure. Through a mail order bride catalog, she was courted in late 1997 by Indle Gifford King, Jr., a middle-aged man in Seattle with crumbling finances and a failed marriage. Within months, Anastasia left her parents in Kyrgyzstan for what she hoped would be a bright new future in America. However, Indle’s and Anastasia’s union would be short-lived, fraught with deception, charges of spousal abuse, adultery – and murder.
AMERICAN JUSTICE: MAIL ORDER MURDER reports that in 2000, Daniel Larson, a convicted child molester, led police to Anastasia’s body in a shallow grave. Larson implicated both himself and Indle King in the crime. King’s motive, according to Larson, was that he had been fleeced by his first Russian wife, and he was determined not to let the second one do the same. At his trial, Indle King became the state’s best witness against himself through his contradictory testimony. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to the maximum in Washington state – just under 29 years. TV PG
