In the mid-1990s, a California woman named Laura Cowan was already having a rough time: her husband was in prison, and she was struggling to make ends meet with her three young children. Things, however, got exponentially worse when, following her husband's arrest, she sought shelter and support from an acquaintance who ended up taking Cowan and her children captive in his nailed-shut garage, sans heat, water, a bathroom or adequate food.
It sounds like the premise of a page-turning thriller, but it actually is a true crime story that's been turned into a Lifetime Original Movie. Premiering tonight, January 18 at 8pm Eastern Time, Girl in the Garage: The Laura Cowan Story is the latest title under the network's "Ripped from the Headlines" film umbrella. Paige Hurd stars as Laura, leading a cast that includes Stephen Bishop, Brad James, Shanica Knowles, Tracey Rooney, Sanaa Sade Salaam, Jackson Little, Jazzanae Sherman and Diego J. Torres. Manu Boyer is in the director's seat, with a screenplay written by scribe Avery O. Williams.
