Filmmakers have recalled how an actress was 'so convincing' in low-budget horror film where she shot a man dead - only for her to be arrested days later for killing her uncle in an 'insanely similar' manner
Aisling 'Tucker' Moore Reed, 31, who has written for Cosmopolitan magazine and the Grants Pass Daily Courier, was initially arrested and charged with manslaughter in 2016 after she shot and killed her uncle Shane Patrick Moore, 63.
At the time she claimed it was self-defence, and posted the necessary 10 per cent of her $200,000 bail, before auditioning for and filming indie movie From the Dark, in which she played the lead role of Valerie Faust.
Speaking on Dateline's
Killer Role podcast, Matthew Spickard, Executive Producer for the film, said the parallels between the killing and the plot of their indie film were 'like a sick joke', saying: 'In the movie, her character defends herself with a fire arm and she thinks she is doing it out of self defense.'
Meanwhile her co-star Meg Windows recalled her being incredibly convincing, revealing: '[During rehearsals] I could hear she had absolute panic in her voice. At first I thought something had happened. We thought, "Oh my god is everything okay over there?" But no - they just sold it so well, we thought they were in trouble over there.'
Days after the film wrapped in September 2018, video footage of the crime emerged and Reed was rearrested. She was sentenced to six years and three months in prison in May 2020.
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