I read Paul Mavis's DVD review of A Death in California at http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=42068 and...

actually Paul the movie does gives a pretty good idea of the actual case-- but it does leave out alot of details-- and it portrays Hope masters as a classy socialite ( because her mom and step dad has money)-and she was after they cleaned her up but when she was first arrested--she was so scummy and dirty that you could see the lice jumping off her head when they x rayed her--and G Danial walker played a cat and mouse game with the detectives before they caught him-the book by Joan Barthel gives alot more details of what really happen-the reason i know so much is because my dad was one of the lead detectives in the case out of Tulare county and my mom was the one who took the X-rays of hope-and i was the one who painted my dad's toe nails red on his 40th birthday while he slept-the day he got called to LA to assist in G.Daniel Walker's arrest-