The Girl in the Picture: The Crime Story That’s Keeping Everyone Up At Night

100 minutes Netflix documentary in 10 minutes

Aravind Balakrishnan
CRIMOPEDIA

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In case you haven’t heard, there is a Netflix documentary that everyone’s been raving about:

It’s called The Girl in the Picture.

This is the real story of a woman, a victim of an alleged hit-and-run, who had several layers of mystery embedded into her past.

But a group of men who initially discovered her injured body on Oklahoma city highway in April 1990 couldn’t have guessed the magnitude of the chain reaction they had set off.

These good samaritans rushed the bleeding victim to a hospital.

Soon the young woman’s husband, Clarence, showed up at the hospital. He revealed that the name of his wife, now fighting for life at the Intensive Care Unit, was Tonya Hughes.

She worked as a dancer in a club in Tulsa and had a 2-year-old son named Michael.

From the moment he showed up, the weird Clarence did not impress the hospital staff for a few reasons:

He seemed almost double the age of Tonya.

Doctors had observed several bruises on Tonya’s body, which is a likely indication of domestic abuse. If so, Clarence was the…

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Aravind Balakrishnan
CRIMOPEDIA

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