While many of Lifetime's fan-favorite crime dramas are fictionalizations, some of their most shocking and spine-chilling original movies are actually based on true events. The network's latest, The Girl Who Wasn't Dead, is one such true crime adaptation, centered on a teenage girl who vanishes without a trace, only to reemerge years later at the place you'd least expect.
Debuting tonight, October 5 at 8pm Eastern Time on Lifetime, The Girl Who Wasn't Dead tells the story of 15-year-old Erica—played by Emma Tremblay, sister to actor Jacob Tremblay (Room, Wonder)—who mysteriously disappears from home one day. She's believed by local authorities and the larger community to be a victim of a serial killer, though her mother Carrie (Lydnsey Fonseca) refuses to believe the worst.
