Sex, Passion, Betrayal, Murder <br /><br />A brilliant biochemistry student who is also a prostitute. <br />A brutally bludgeoned body buried naked in the snow. <br /><br />Thus begins Winter of Frozen Dreams, a sordid love story and a macabre <br />web of blackmail, lust, and deceit. The Hoffman case was the first televised <br />murder trial in US history. <br /><br />The true-life story of Barbara Hoffman, is complex and contradictory in every sense, <br />she was both a brilliant biochemistry student at the University of Wisconsin and Madison’s most notorious <br />prostitute. <br />On a frigid, twenty-two below zero Christmas morning, Barbara Hoffman’s (Thora Birch) distraught young fiancé, Jerry Davies (Brendan Sexton III) lead police investigators to a corpse, which only hours before, he had buried in a snow <br />bank. Lead by Detective Lulling (Academy Award winner Keith Carradine), the police investigators uncover the naked <br />and brutally bludgeoned body of Harry Berge. Davies desperately insists that <br />he is not a murderer and that he and Hoffman are guilty only of burying the <br />corpse of a stranger. <br /><br />Shades of film noir blend with true crime, as Barbara Hoffman lives out her days in prison, refusing to give interviews or even go before the parole board.
