Movie Description:
On the morning of June 6, 1990, thevillage of Munnsville (pop. 499) was just another forgotten corner of rural America. But in the days and monthsthat followed, this New York farming community would become the center of one of the mostcelebrated and bizarre murder trials in U.S. history. Brother`s Keeper tells thestory ofthe "Ward Boys", four eccentric brotherswho shared the same dilapidated two-roomshack for over 60 years. Living inisolation, without heat or running water, these elderly bachelors had virtually no contact with the outside world -until one was found dead in thebed he shared with his brother. By day`s end, Delbert Ward"confessed" to suffocating hisailing brother as an actof mercy, but Munnsville believedDelbert had been framed. Was Delbert, an uneducated hermit witha low IQ, an innocent victimof police abuse? Was ita mercykilling - or was there anothermotive?