When Part I of this film aired, a group of William Bradfield, Jr.'s fellow inmates went to his cell and demanded that he reveal where the bodies of the children were hidden. Bradfield refused and was subsequently placed in solitary confinement for his own protection. He requested a television so that he could watch Part II but guards refused, telling Bradfield that he already knew how the story ended.
As of April 2020, the children (or their bodies) have not been found.
Gary Cole played Jack Holtz. Cole played Jeffrey MacDonald in the television mini-series, Fatal Vision (1984), based on the book of the same name by Joe McGinniss. MacDonald was convicted of murdering his wife and two daughters in 1979. During the trial of Jay Smith, the prosecution mentions finding the book "Fatal Vision" amongst Smith's possessions in his prison cell. According to prosecutors, this is significant because Smith, like MacDonald, is suspected of killing a mother and her two children.
Jay Smith was released from prison because the state Supreme Court in 1992 dismissed his murder conviction and forbade a retrial, ruling that State Police had concealed evidence.
The miniseries was initially aired over two nights and showed both of the separate Bradfield and Smith trials for the Reinert murders. After Jay Smith's conviction was overturned in 1992, the film was recut to omit the Smith trial and ends instead with a disclaimer about Jay Smith after the Bradfield trial verdict.