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Kenneth Taylor

I read the true crime book, In a Child's Name by Peter Maas, many, many years ago. I read it after seeing the television movie of the same name. The movie aired in 1991 when we were still on the back end of the era in which television mini-series' were a thing. I always remembered the movie due to how it ended on the first of two nights on the air. To be fair, my knowledge of all things criminal was not what it is today and the impression they gave in the movie is completely false, but it was still powerful. In the movie investigators had sprayed the home of Kenneth Taylor with Luminol while he was being investigated in the murder of his wife, Teresa Benigno-White. The movie would indicate that it was the use of this chemical that had led to his arrest, which is not really true. At the end of the first night however the movie showed Kenneth Taylor's parents sleeping in the master bedroom of the home and after they turned the light off the room began to gl...