Life with Murder (2010)
… In January 1998, 18-year-old Jennifer Jenkins was found shot to death in her family home in Chatham, Ontario… The bloody crime shocked the community when police arrested Jennifer’s 20-year-old brother Mason Jenkins in connection with the slaying…
“Mason was found guilty of First Degree Murder and is currently serving a life sentence in an Ontario prison, but Mason has always insisted that he’s innocent, and his parents, Brian and Leslie Jenkins, have fearlessly stood by him despite the wealth of evidence against him and the anger of other family members and friends; as Leslie puts it, “He’s my kid. You don’t throw a kid away.” But while Brian and Leslie have done whatever they can to support their son, they’ve also avoided facing the realities of their daughter’s murder and looking too closely at the evidence of what happened that January evening. Filmmaker John Kastner explores the relationship between Brian and Leslie Jenkins and their son — one that’s full of love but also skirts the facts that their situation is far from ordinary — in the documentary Life With Murder; Kastner also weighs the evidence and attempts to answer the questions about who really killed Jennifer and why. Life With Murder was an official selection at the 2010 Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival… ” – YouTube
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3 responses to “Life with Murder (2010)”
Ok…a couple of things. If these parents can still love their son after knowing he killed their daughter and finding out that he had a plan to kill *them* as well, then what in the hell is wrong with the parents out there who “throw away” or cease communication with their children for being gay? Or for leaving the family church (ie, Westboro Baptist Church)? Being a parent is about loving your child unconditionally.
That being said, Mason is an ungrateful brat, to put it mildly and nicely.
He dose not deserve parents like he has, but I do respect what his parents have said. In my mind, he did “kill” them that day!
What kind of “prison” is that for a murderer? He gets to have visits in a house (even if it’s on prison grounds) like a regular citizen, for three days? He wears regular clothes? His cell looks like a mini-apartment, too. He’s having himself a pretty easy “punishment”.