This two-part DVD follows the legal and very personal saga of Jane Stafford, whose case marked the first time in Canadian history that battered wife syndrome was used as a defense for murder. --Part 1, Life with Billy reports on events leading up to the murder of Billy Stafford, a cruel and sadistic husband who brutalized his wife and children for years. When Jane Stafford shot her husband while he slept, she was arrested and offered a plea of manslaughter. Through interviews with Jane, her lawyers, citizens, and the police, we follow this case to its precedent-setting conclusion. --Part 2, Life after Billy presents Jane Stafford's trial in Nova Scotia that received national attention. In mid-February 1992, Jane died as a result of a gunshot wound, which the coroner reported as probable suicide. Those closest to Jane Stafford do not believe she took her own life.

Originally broadcast on the television program Fifth estate in 1983 and 1992.