American scandal uses dramatizations that are based on true events.

Some elements, including dialogue, might be invented, but everything is based on historical research.

It's a few hours before dawn on a winter's night in 1959 in rural Connecticut.

25-year-old Burton Kaplan drives along a desolate country road.

Snowflakes drift through the beam of his headlights.

He hasn't seen another car for miles, which is just as well because there's a dead body in his

trunk.

Kaplan doesn't know who the man is or why he was killed.

All he knows is that he has to get rid of him.

Kaplan has a gambling problem.

He borrowed large sums of money from an ex-cop back in Brooklyn, And now that ex-cop expects a favor.

Kaplan has been told to take the body to someone who might help him bury it.

He's agreed, of course.

Otherwise, he knows he might be the one in the trunk next time.

Kaplan checks his directions, then turns off the main road onto a dirt track.

Through the trees ahead, he can see a pair of headlights.

As he gets closer, Kaplan spots a man leaning against a car, watching him approach.

He's dressed in a thick sheepskin coat and leather gloves and is carrying a shovel.

As Kaplan parks his car and gets out,

the man walks over. Well, he's in the back. Caplin pops the trunk. The body is wrapped in

gray plastic sheeting and tied up with duct tape. The man gives a grunt to satisfaction.

Hmm, right, this way.

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