10 Scariest Scenes In "True Story" Films

When America's Most Wanted debuted, John Walsh was delivering on a pledge. Following the murder of his son Adam in 1981 allegedly by a then-unknown Ottis Toole (see #2), he became an advocate for victim rights. Seven years later, he had secured a deal with FOX for a long-running, hour-long show that aided detectives with cold cases. America's Most Wanted, at the time, was a primetime Amber Alert with no proven track record.

That is, until the first season managed a win. An early case on the show was that of killer John List, who had murdered his family and fled 18 years previous. He was found within two weeks after the broadcast thanks to a bust made by a forensic sculptor of how he would look.

Joseph Ruben used this as the basis for The Stepfather, a film in which Terry O'Quinn regularly murders and changes families whenever they fail to live up to his Norman Rockwell expectations of American perfection. He is at his most serene at Thanksgiving dinners, building birdhouses and ensuring every Leave It To Beaver value he saw as a child be realized.

When he finally does break, not only does his mask of sanity slip, but so does his ability to remember who he is pretending to be. Before he up and decides to take out New Family #4879A, he stop, chillingly, to ask aloud, "Who am I here?"