Bruce Sinofsky

On the morning of June 6, 1990, the village of Munnsville (pop. 499) was just another forgotten corner of rural America. But in the days and months that followed, this New York farming community would become the center of one of the most celebrated and bizarre murder trials in U.S. history. Brother's Keeper tells the story of the "Ward Boys," four eccentric brothers who shared the same dilapidated two-room shack for over 60 years. Living in isolation, without heat or running water, these elderly bachelors had virtually no contact with the outside world--until one was found dead in the bed he shared with his brother. By day's end, Delbert Ward "confessed" to suffocating his ailing brother as an act of mercy, but Munnsville believed Delbert had been framed. Was Delbert, an uneducated hermit with a low IQ, an innocent victim of police abuse? Was it a mercy killing--or was there another motive? From award-winning filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky (Paradise Lost), Brother's Keeper is a real-life murder mystery as suspenseful and compelling as any Hollywood whodunit.

Throughout her life, Lucinda Pond has looked after and protected her younger brother Ellis, whose aberrant mental state was the result of constant abuse at the hands of his father. As an adult, Lucinda worked as a criminal investigator, while Ellis pursued a criminal career. Despite this, Lucinda continued to shelter her brother, carefully covering up for his many crimes. Fired for bungling the investigation of alleged serial killer Victor Orbin, Lucinda opens up a boat and tackle store at a remote lakeside community. Local homicide detective Travis Adler invites Lucinda to participate in another murder investigation, this one apparently perpetrated by the same killer who indirectly cost Lucinda her badge. At the same time, Ellis escapes from jail and goes off on a homicidal spree of his own, eliminating those whom he feels did his sister wrong, as well as a few abusive parents along the way. Gradually, Lucinda begins to deduce a connection between Ellis escape and her current investigation but will she continue to protect her kid brother despite his murderous rampage? Starring Jeanne Tripplehorn (Basic Instinct, The Firm), Emmy Award-nominee Corin Nemec (TV's I Know My First Name Is Steven, TV's Parker Lewis), Brian Jensen (The 6th Day, The 13th Warrior) and Leland Orser (Daredevil, Pearl Harbor).

Although she quit the police force years ago, Lucinda Pond (Jeanne Tripplehorn) reluctantly returns to assist with a reopened, unsolved serial killer case she had worked on in the past. Following the killer's clues, Lucinda is soon shocked to learn that the murderer is her own brother. Delving deeper into the past, she enlists the aid of an ex-boyfriend (Leland Orser) as she tries to find her brother before he kills again.

An ex-cop covers for her mentally ill brother's crimes. As his apparent involvement in a murder she is investigating grows, she discovers how far she'll go to protect him - and how far he'll push her.