| Gone in the Night | |
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| Directed by | Bill L. Norton |
| Written by | Brian L. Ross David Protess (book) Rob Warden (book) |
| Starring | Shannen Doherty Kevin Dillon Ed Asner Dixie Carter |
| Distributed by | CBS |
| Release date(s) | February 25, 1996 |
| Running time | 190 minutes |
| Country | United States |
Gone in the Night is a 1996 television movie based around the Jaclyn Dowaliby murder case, with Shannen Doherty and Kevin Dillon as Cynthia and David Dowaliby.
On September 14, 1988, 7 year-old Jaclyn Dowaliby was kidnapped from her home in the middle of the night. Two years later in 1990, Cynthia and David Dowaliby went on trial for the murder of their daughter. However, Cynthia was acquitted by the judge on grounds of insufficient evidence, but David was tried and convicted of his daughter's death. His conviction came because the jury was shown photographs of a closet door, with fist holes in it. It was later proven that this damage happened before David even moved into the house.
In 1991 David's conviction was overturned when the Illinois Appellate Court reversed conviction outright, holding that the evidence against him had been no more probative than that against his wife. The murder of Jaclyn remains unsolved.
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