Murder in the Mirror

Made-for-TV murder mystery about a wife who becomes the chief suspect when her husband is murdered. As the authorities prepare their case against her, she conducts her own investigation, taking her to the rather more seedy parts of town and raising suspicions about her husband’s double life., Newly married psychiatrist Mary (Jane Seymour) is identified as the murderer of her husband, Paul (Robert Desiderio), by an unimpeachable eyewitness. Detective Russo (James Farentino) is all for putting the cuffs on Mary, but she convinces him to wait until more evidence is gathered. Conducting her own personal investigation in some of the seamier districts of town, Mary learns that the likely killer is a woman who looks, acts, and dresses very much like her — and, more disturbingly, our heroine discovers that her husband was leading a most unsavory double life. Capped by a climax straight out of The Perils of Pauline, Murder in the Mirror was directed by James Keach, the husband of star Jane Seymour; the made-for-TV thriller debuted January 19, 2000 on CBS., A psychiatrist (Jane Seymour) tries to convince a detective (James Farentino) that she didn’t murder her husband, even though a witness saw her near the crime scene and he was killed with her gun. Paul: Robert Desiderio. Mendoza: Alex Mendoza. Rita: Hayley DuMond. Rose: Nan Martin. Brad: Peter Jason. Rick: John Enos. Donna: Tracy Griffith., Mary meets Paul, marries Paul and when Paul is murdered becomes the number one suspect. While the police are preparing their case against her she begins her own investigation which takes her to the seedy parts of town and begins to expose her husbands very secret double life.