This was an interesting look at the big city of Atltana, "which is about as southern as a can of Boston baked beans," according to narrator Paul Winfield. His point was, as most people know, Atltanta has a lot of northern people living it in. Northern money rebuilt the city after Gen. Sherman burned it down in 1864 during the Civil War....and Atlanta hasn't stopped growing since.
We get some astonishing skyscraper views in this "City Confidential" episode, along with a few shots of the major road systems and horrendous traffic that residents have to endure daily. You really get the feel of a big northern city. We learn about the businesses, leading off with Coca-Cola, who built up the area and provided tons of jobs for those Yankees who invaded the area. We also learn about where the Atlanta folks moved who wanted to raise families in the safest areas: they moved north of the city.
One such couple were the Tokars who were single people from the Buffalo, New York, area who moved to Atlanta. Sara Ambrusko was a beautiful girl, the daughter of a prominent physician in a Buffalo suburb. One day on Atlanta TV, she spotted an old high school friend, Fredric Tokars, on the screen and called him up. She was homesick and wanted to talk to someone from her home town. Three months later, they were married. How many times have you wound up seeing that being a mistake: dating for that short a period and getting married? In this case, it turned out to be a fatal mistake.
Fredric Tokars didn't wind up being the handsome, dashing lawyer he looked like on TV. Oh, he was successful; first as an assistant district attorney and then as his own boss as a criminal defense attorney. The problem was he began to be in cahoots with some of his shady clients.
It turns out Sara was very happy being a stay-at-home mom and loved raising her two little boys in a high-class neighborhood in Marietta. He was a immoral kind of husband who frequented prostitutes, got mixed up in the drug business and, well.....was just a bad guy. When he wouldn't grant her a divorce, she wound up getting the goods on him and rather than her spilling what she knew about his illegal activities, he hired one of the thugs he had gotten involved with, to kill her..This took place in December of 1992.
The worst part about this story is hearing that the two little boys witnessed the murder, all three sitting in the front of their car when the hired murderer kidnapped them when they arrived home from a trip. They never even got out of their car. About a mile down the road in the ultra-quiet neighborhood, Sara screamed and the killer blasted half her head off with a sawed-off shotgun. The boys were covered in blood and ran for help. (Try living the rest of your life with those memories.)
This episode, as almost all City Confidental episodes are, is very biased. All the people interviewed are on her the woman's side (mostly Sara's sisters) and nobody is pictured saying anything good about the husband. Of course, in this situation, how can you? You can't. The only question was: "Will Tokars get the death penalty?"
Tokars did not get the death penalty, which did not please the family and friends of Sara's..
We get some astonishing skyscraper views in this "City Confidential" episode, along with a few shots of the major road systems and horrendous traffic that residents have to endure daily. You really get the feel of a big northern city. We learn about the businesses, leading off with Coca-Cola, who built up the area and provided tons of jobs for those Yankees who invaded the area. We also learn about where the Atlanta folks moved who wanted to raise families in the safest areas: they moved north of the city.
One such couple were the Tokars who were single people from the Buffalo, New York, area who moved to Atlanta. Sara Ambrusko was a beautiful girl, the daughter of a prominent physician in a Buffalo suburb. One day on Atlanta TV, she spotted an old high school friend, Fredric Tokars, on the screen and called him up. She was homesick and wanted to talk to someone from her home town. Three months later, they were married. How many times have you wound up seeing that being a mistake: dating for that short a period and getting married? In this case, it turned out to be a fatal mistake.
Fredric Tokars didn't wind up being the handsome, dashing lawyer he looked like on TV. Oh, he was successful; first as an assistant district attorney and then as his own boss as a criminal defense attorney. The problem was he began to be in cahoots with some of his shady clients.
It turns out Sara was very happy being a stay-at-home mom and loved raising her two little boys in a high-class neighborhood in Marietta. He was a immoral kind of husband who frequented prostitutes, got mixed up in the drug business and, well.....was just a bad guy. When he wouldn't grant her a divorce, she wound up getting the goods on him and rather than her spilling what she knew about his illegal activities, he hired one of the thugs he had gotten involved with, to kill her..This took place in December of 1992.
The worst part about this story is hearing that the two little boys witnessed the murder, all three sitting in the front of their car when the hired murderer kidnapped them when they arrived home from a trip. They never even got out of their car. About a mile down the road in the ultra-quiet neighborhood, Sara screamed and the killer blasted half her head off with a sawed-off shotgun. The boys were covered in blood and ran for help. (Try living the rest of your life with those memories.)
This episode, as almost all City Confidental episodes are, is very biased. All the people interviewed are on her the woman's side (mostly Sara's sisters) and nobody is pictured saying anything good about the husband. Of course, in this situation, how can you? You can't. The only question was: "Will Tokars get the death penalty?"
Tokars did not get the death penalty, which did not please the family and friends of Sara's..