Amy Fisher and the ethics of "headline" docudramas. (documentary-dramatic films; television programming)

Journal of Popular Film & Television | September 22, 1993| | Copyright

The explosion of media coverage set off after Amy Fisher shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco meant the central question was not whether the story would be made into a docudrama but when.

On 19 May 1992, 17-year-old Amy Fisher met Peter Guagenti, a 21-year-old college dropout from Brooklyn, to get a .25-caliber handgun. Guagenti then drove Fisher to the home of Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of the man with whom Fisher was allegedly having an affair. There Fisher shot Mrs. Buttafuoco in the head; then, thinking she had killed her quarry, Fisher was driven back to her Long Island home ...

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