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After evading justice for over 30 years, Dennis Bowman is now serving two life sentences behind bars for a string of horrific crimes that shocked communities and devastated families. Bowman’s downfall came thanks to advances in DNA testing and the determined investigation of one mother seeking answers.

In 1974, Cathy Terkanian gave her daughter Alexis up for adoption. Years later, when Cathy tried to reconnect with her child, she discovered Alexis had been adopted under the name Aundria by Dennis and Brenda Bowman. However, Aundria was now listed as missing, believed to have run away from the Bowmans’ home.

Cathy refused to accept this and launched her own search for the truth. Despite initial reluctance from police, Cathy stalked the Bowmans’ house, paid for billboards in their town, and used drones to search their property. She was determined to find out what really happened to Aundria.

A breakthrough came in an...

Warning: Contains Spoilers for Into The Fire: The Lost Daughter

This article contains discussion of sexual violence and assault.

Netflix's mesmerizing true-crime documentary Into The Fire: The Lost Daughter explores the horrifying case of Aundria Bowman, yet doesn't dwell on what happened to her murderer and adopted father Dennis after the case's resolution. In 1974, 16-year-old Cathy gave up her daughter Alexis for adoption and went about her life. Many years later, she decided to try to reconnect and found that Alexis, who had been adopted by Dennis Bowman and his wife Brenda and renamed Aundria, had run away from their home, and was listed as missing. That revelation prompted Cathy's journey to discover the truth about Aundria's disappearance.

Cathy enlisted help from amateur sleuths, her own family, and even the Bowman's relatives to embarrass law enforcement and ultimately reveal that Dennis Bowman had not only killed her daughter...

Is the third time the charm for Jack Finney's stubborn human duplicator pods? Abel Ferrara keeps the faith and makes a straight, effective revisit of the paranoid classic. Does it all seem too familiar now, or are we just more Pod-like and less excitable? Body Snatchers Blu-ray Warner Archive Collection 1993 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 87 min. / Street Date October 18, 2016 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring Gabrielle Anwar, Forest Whitaker, Meg Tilly, Terry Kinney, Billy Wirth, Reilly Murphy, Christine Elise, R. Lee Ermey, Kathleen Doyle, G. Elvis Phillips. Cinematography Bojan Bazelli Film Editor Anthony Redman Original Music Joe Delia Screenplay Dennis Paoli, Nicholas St. John, Stuart Gordon story by Raymond Cistheri, Larry Cohen, from the novel by Jack Finney Produced by Robert H. Solo Directed by Abel Ferrara

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Still the most potent and meaningful movie expression of modern paranoia is Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the first film made...