Murder in Texas is a 1981 television film starring Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott, Farrah Fawcett, and Andy Griffith.
The film was directed by William Hale, and was based on a true story; it was written for the TV screen by John McGreevey.
[1] Based on the true story of the death of Joan Robinson Hill, this film tells of a plastic surgeon who was suspected of causing the death of his first wife, the daughter of a wealthy member of Houston society.
The circumstances around her death – which was never solved – are clouded by a suspiciously hasty embalming and a hurried burial.
In spite of two autopsies showing that his daughter died of natural causes, Ash Robinson, convinced that his daughter was murdered, sets out single-handedly to find out the true cause of her death, determined to see that the doctor is punished.