I Miss You, Hugs And Kisses (1978)

A businessman (Donald Pilon) stuck in an unhappy marriage has fallen in love with another woman (Cindy Girling). When his ex-model wife (Elke Sommer) is found bludgeoned to death in their garage, he is arrested for her murder. Directed by Murray Markowitz, this Canadian exploitation film takes a real life murder case (the murder trial of Peter Demeter holds the record as the longest trial in Canadian history) and changes names and circumstances but it's still close enough to be recognizable as the Demeter case. It's unsavory and excessively and unnecessarily gory which is what identifies it as a sleazy exploitation movie. This fictionalized version casts doubt on Demeter's (called Kruschen in the film) guilt and creates fictionalized other possible suspects. It's sad to see Elke Sommer, one of the international beauties of 1960s cinema, reduced to squalor like this. The film is notable for being the first film score by the Oscar winning Howard Shore (LORD OF THE RINGS). With Cec Linder and Chuck Shamata.