True Story?

Mother Knows Best is based on the true story of Lee Goldsmith of Boca Raton, Florida. In February 1989, the then 67-year-old retiree tried to have her son-in-law David Brownstein killed.

McLeod, Michael. (January 10, 1993) “Lee Goldsmith, In Jail For Hiring A Hit Man” Orlando Sentinel (http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993-01-10/news/9301070848_1_lee-g oldsmith-daughter-jail)

Walsh, Barbara. (October 3, 1993) “Lee Goldsmith: Hard Time For A Grandmother” Sun Sentinel (http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1993-10-03/features/9309160551_1_lee- goldsmith-prison-kathy-willets)

Walsh, Barbara. (June 18, 1995) “Grandma In Murder Plot To Be Freed” Sun Sentinel (http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1995-06-18/news/9506170306_1_arleen-b rownstein-brownstein-s-mother-david-brownstein)

Curry, Traciy. (2004) “Mother Knows Best” Movies Based on True Stories (Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20091024231155/http://geocities.com/murder_ stories/mother_knows_best_movie.html?1045403486890)

Curry-Reyes, Traciy. (2009, 2011) “Mother Knows Best” Movies Based on True Stories Database (Blog: http://www.motherknowsbestmovie.blogspot.com/)

I've seen that as well, but they must be using fictitious names or something. I can't find anything out.

Thanks!

Thanks Lmartinez778-1.

Wow, Lee Goldsmith was the ultimate mother-in-law from hell.

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Everyone dies but not everyone gets to live.

That is a great site! Lots of interesting info about true crime and docudramas.

Here is the true story

Visit the Movies Based on True Stories Database
URL link: http://www.motherknowsbestmovie.blogspot.com/

I just saw the film here in the UK and at the beginning it said that the names haave been changed (to protect the identity I guess) but it IS a true story. So Googling the names won't provide anything...!

Wow. Three years from the crime to when she actually set foot in jail...and then she only spends two years there?

Nice, swift justice there.

She basically got a lenient sentence because of her health??? That's BULLSH*t! Criminals die in prison everyday so that makes no sense to me. What a crooked backwards county. I think it was more her wealth than her health that got her released early. If she died while serving her sentence for trying to get an innocent man killed, so what??? She broke the law and should have paid fully and completely for it. Psycho b***h.