Investigation Discovery's true crime docuseries The Bakersfield 3: A Tale of Murder and Motherhood premieres Sunday, May 11 and streams on Max. 　　The series, based on a 2022 feature in Marie Claire titled Of Murder and Motherhood, traces the stories of three mothers in Bakersfield, California, united by parallel tragedies. 　　In the space of weeks in 2018, Diane "Di" Byrne's son James Kulstad, 38, was shot to death; Cheryl Holsonbake's son Micah Holsonbake, 34, went missing and was later confirmed to have been murdered; and Jane Parrent's daughter Baylee Parrent Despot went missing. To this day, Baylee has still never been found.

范妮是个出身贫寒的少女，被姨父母伯特伦爵士夫妇收养，过着寄人篱下的日子。但她始终有颗温柔善良的心，辨是非，明大理。她坚决抵制大表哥汤姆等人要在家里排演有伤大雅的情节剧，毫不动摇地顶住了纨绔子弟克劳福德的无理纠缠，始终不渝地暗恋着埃德蒙，特别是在克劳福德小姐对埃德蒙“旧情复发”时，她告诫表哥不要被她的假象所迷惑。最终，她的高尚人品赢得了伯特伦爵士的器重和埃德蒙的爱。

范妮·普莱斯（弗朗西斯·欧康纳饰）10岁的时候被送到富有的亲戚伯特伦家抚养。离开穷困潦倒的家，幼小的范妮坐在船上，无法预知自己的将来，她还不明白今后的生活将会怎样。