How to Survive a Murder

Filmmaker John MacGibbon receives a call saying his mother-in- law, Dr. Vibeke Rasmussen, has not shown up for work. Hours later police call to share an unimaginable truth-seventy-six-year-old Rasmussen has been stabbed more than 35 times in the face, neck, hands and shoulders while in bed in her apartment.

While police search for the killer, John MacGibbon pores over court documents and interviews murder suspect Tyler Hagmaier's friends and family members about his violent past.

With the killer still missing, John MacGibbon is contacted by an old lover of Hagmaier who pushes the investigation in a new direction.

MacGibbon uncovers new evidence long hidden by the police. The final answer to the mystery is darker and more disturbing than he could have imagined, and reveals a terrible truth about the limits of a mother’s love and the depths of human despair.