Vicky White, Mary Bailey true-crime movies coming to Lifetime

Wendi McLendon-Covey plays Vicky White in a Lifetime movie. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
Wendi McLendon-Covey plays Vicky White in a Lifetime movie. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
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Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Lifetime released trailers for two new true crime movies on Wednesday. Bad Romance: The Vicky White Story premieres Saturday at 8 p.m. EDT.

Wendi McLendon-Covey plays Vicky White and also executive produces. Rossif Sutherland also stars.

Casey White (Sutherland) was an inmate serving life in Lauderdale County, Ala. Vicky (McLendon-Covey) was a corrections officer who helped him escape.

In the end, Vicky and Casey, coincidentally both named White, were apprehended. Vicky died by suicide and Casey was sentenced to another life sentence for his escape attempt.

Melissa Joan Hart plays the grandmother of Mary Bailey for Lifetime. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
Melissa Joan Hart plays the grandmother of Mary Bailey for Lifetime. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI

Would You Kill For Me? The Mary Bailey Story premieres Oct. 28 at 8 p.m. EDT. Melissa Joan Hart stars as Ella, the grandmother of Mary (Presley Allard), and executive produces.

In 1988, Mary told a jury that she shot her father, Willard. Connor McMahon plays Willard in the film and Olivia Scriven his wife Veronica, who is Mary's mother and Ella's daughter.

Melissa Joan Hart (L) and Presley Allard star in "Would You Kill For Me? The Mary Bailey Story." Photo courtesy of Lifetime
Melissa Joan Hart (L) and Presley Allard star in "Would You Kill For Me? The Mary Bailey Story." Photo courtesy of Lifetime

The film depicts Willard's abuse, the trial over his death and the three women's stories. Would You Kill For Me? is based on Bailey's book, My Mother's Soldier.

Vicky White (Wendy McLendon-Covey) helped Casey White (Rossif Sutherland) escape prison. Photo courtesy of Lifetime
Vicky White (Wendy McLendon-Covey) helped Casey White (Rossif Sutherland) escape prison. Photo courtesy of Lifetime