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In all the articles I have read it is stated that they were good friends but never romantically involved.

Continuing on with my reply from above. The jilted girl had taken the gun from the bed and used the opportunity to kill the husband knowing that the defendant would be blamed. The motive was the fact that she had been left at the alter. I don't know if it is old age but I have trouble following movies where there is a lot of different people with different names. If I had seen it the movies years ago, I probably would have never known what the motive was.

Thanks for the replies. I had taped the movie and carefully watched it again going back and forth with the remote buttons. I finally figured out the motive. In the movie the defendant was accused of killing the husband of a girl he met at a party. The husband arrived late to the party and saw his wife with the defendant. The husband started a fight with the defendant and pulled a gun on him. The defendant was able to get the gun away from him. He then threw the gun on the bed and left. Before he left in anger he told the husband that he would kill him if bothered him again. Later that night the husband was killed. The likely suspect was the defendant. During the trial he escaped and was in hiding for seven years. He was finally captured and went back to trial. A dedicated public defender took the case and went about finding all the old witnesses to find the real killer. The interactions between the witnesses(couples at the party) was very convoluted and confusing to follow. Finally at the trial at the very end, the real killer was identified. It was the wife of one of the couples at the party. Apparently in the past she had been engaged to the murdered husband and was jilted by him at the last minute before the wedding.

A few days ago I watched the movie "Hunt the Man Down" on TCM. The murderer was identified at the end of the movie, but there is no obvious motive. Can anyone help me with this?