This movie is based on the October 4, 1975 murder of Harriet Robinson of Jackson, MS by John Peyton Alexander II. She was 38-years old, he was 20-years old.
Alexander attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN on a mathematics scholarship. In the summers he worked at the YMCA in Mississippi as a swimming and diving coach. Robinson worked as a school teacher. She was married with three children.