The Girl Next Door

This made-for-television psychodrama centers on a young woman whose guilt over having performed a vile act for the love of a married man threatens to overwhelm her sanity. Annie Nolan’s odyssey begins the day that handsome, charming Officer Craig Mitchell busts into her apartment to save her from an abusive lover. Annie is still swooning from the effects of this last relationship when Craig aggressively moves in and sweeps her off her feet. The trouble is that he is married. But he has a solution to that. After much cajoling, manipulating and pleading, he convinces Annie to murder his wife so they can be together. Two years pass and Annie lives with Craig and his children. Despite her efforts to be happy, she cannot forget her crime and finds the pressure to come clean becoming increasingly unbearable., A police psychiatrist (Sharon Gless) helps a distraught young woman (Tracey Gold) deal with the guilt of killing her lover’s wife and the fact that she got away with it. Craig: Tom Irwin. Steve: Michael Dorn. Wendy: Gillian Ferrabee. Levine: Mark Camacho., Anne Nolan is swept off her feet by policeman Craig Mitchell… but he’s married. Years after Anne is persuaded to bump off his wife, her guilt drives her to psychologist Gayle and the whole story emerges., Psychological thriller about a young girl confessing to a murder. Through flashbacks, a psychiatrist helps the girl to recall how she fell in love with an older policeman who used her to murder his wife., A police psychiatrist helps a distraught young woman deal with the guilt of killing her lover’s wife and the fact that she got away with it.