Does anyone know the true identity of Bobby Woodkin? Or where this murder actually took place?
shareI searched and haven't been able to find any information about the true story. The way this movie played out felt very real, but something tells me the true story was quite different and that's why we can't find anything. I'm very curious though.
Tomorrow's just your future yesterday!
He is Ralph B Takemire and the baby is Heather Ikerd
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shareMovie plays out case solved by Topeka police officers
Posted: Friday, February 11, 2000
By By TIM HRENCHIR
The Capital-Journal
It isn't often one sees himself portrayed in a TV movie. But that happens to Danny Hay tonight.
Hay, a sergeant with the Topeka Police Department, plans to watch at 8 p.m. when a re-run of "Ultimate Deception" airs on the USA Network, which is Channel 42 on cable TV in Topeka.
Ultimate Deception, a USA Network-produced original movie that first aired early last year, is based on the story of how Ralph B. Takemire murdered a young Colorado woman to steal her baby and bring the infant to his childless wife in Overbrook.
Hay was working as a Topeka police detective in July 1991 when he received a CrimeStoppers call from a woman who said Takemire and his wife, Lorraine Drake Takemire, had been trying to buy a baby and had obtained one.
For the next four weeks, Hay conducted a nationwide search for a child who might fit the caller's account, but found nothing.
In August 1991, Hay was making what was likely his last call before exhausting all leads when his conversation happened to be overheard by Craig Fox, then a police detective and now a sergeant with the department.
Fox realized the situation matched one he had heard of in news accounts while vacationing in Colorado, where someone in July 1991 had shot and killed 18-year-old Terra Ikerd and kidnapped her 3-month-old daughter, Heather.
Fox and Hay's investigation led soon afterward to the recovery of Heather and arrest of Takemire. He confessed to having murdered Terra Ikerd -- the daughter of a lifelong friend of Takemire's -- in order to take her child.
Takemire was convicted of murder and kidnapping and sentenced to prison, where he later died.
About two years ago, two script writers and a producer came to Topeka to talk with Hay about a movie script being written based on the case. Hay answered their questions, then didn't hear from them again.
"Ultimate Deception," starring Richard Grieco as the man modeled after Takemire and Yasmine Bleeth as his wife, first aired on USA Network in early 1999. A Los Angeles Times review, noting that the film was based on the Takemire case, described "Ultimate Deception" as a "compelling, truth-is-stranger-than-fiction" tale.
Still, Hay and Fox hadn't heard about the film until Hay's children recently told them they had enjoyed a TV movie that included a detective named "Hay."
They described the movie to Hay, who realized quickly the film was based on the Takemire case.
Hay and Fox seemed curious Thursday to see how they were portrayed in the movie. A USA Network web page on the Internet says the character of "Hay" is played by an actor named Geoffrey Bowes. There isn't a character named Fox.
"At this point we really don't know much about it," Hay said Thursday. "I guess we'll find out tomorrow night." http://cjonline.com/stories/021100/com_policemovie.shtml
Only half true and many parts missing this from someone who was there from start to finish i know
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