NBC is showing a LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT, a 2 - hour movie that parallels Natalie Holloway's case. Of course, it is "not based on actual events" but it is very obviously taken from the case.
That's interesting, thanks for the tip about the movie.
LAW & ORDER - CRIMINAL INTENT
IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS, PART I & II
10pm 2005-11-06
IN TWO-HOUR EPISODE BOTH SETS OF SERIES DETECTIVES PROBE DISAPPEARANCE OF IOWA TEEN DURING HER TRIP TO NEW YORK
In a two-hour movie featuring both sets of the series' detectives for the first time -- a visiting Iowa teen disappears during her New York City school trip, prompting a massive media frenzy that engulfs Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio), Eames (Kathryn Erbe), Logan (Chris Noth) and Barek (Annabella Sciorra) when their prime suspect Ethan, guest star Matt O'Leary, is a powerful judge's son.
The case widens when it appears the accused's philandering father Harold, guest star Colm Meaney, is a co-conspirator who acted to protect his son -- and might be a murder suspect himself -- but he is not afraid to punch back hard against the investigators. Jamey Sheridan, Courtney B. Vance and Fred Dalton Thompson ("Law & Order") also star. TV-14