Crime does pay - on Discovery network

New York

IN September, Seth Techel received a life sentence in Iowa for murdering his pregnant wife to pursue a romance with a co-worker. In October, a production crew descended on a suburban home in this Long Island town to recreate the drama for an episode of Scorned: Love Kills, a popular series on the real-crime network Investigation Discovery.

Cameras followed a young couple kissing passionately in one corner of the yard, a scowling neighbour holding a gun in another corner and police officers searching for a murder weapon in the backyard. In the ensuing weeks, producers packaged the shots into an hour-long programme that will be televised to over 100 million homes in 157 countries and territories.