Dated Dec. 1, 1999, the fax was sent from the office of Barry Weitz, of Irish Films Inc., to Boyle - nearly a year before the high-profile Milwaukee attorney was done representing Maloney in his first appeal. The brief treatment says the movie would be written and produced by Howard Weisman, of Forest Hills Pictures, and Weitz. 
The seven-page movie treatment accurately depicts the scenario of the actual trial, when Boyle pinned his client's defense on blaming Tracy Hellenbrand, John's ex-girlfriend and a former undercover Internal Revenue Service agent, who testified against John. 

One scene depicts investigator Kim Skorlinski browbeating Hellenbrand into helping to try to get a confession out of Maloney: 

...Hellenbrand writhes uncomfortably under his inappropriate gaze. "I'll help you and then I'm out of here," she spits back. 

Over two days, on July 27 and 28, 1998, in a hotel room wired with audio and video surveillance at the Lady Luck Casino in Las Vegas, Hellenbrand - using every fiber of her being, sexual and otherwise - taunts, teases, cajoles, role-plays, browbeats, manhandles and generally steers Maloney into admitting that he did, in fact, pay a visit to his wife's house on the day of her murder. 

As captured on the videotape, Maloney admits once, and only once, that he was at the house the day she was killed, but he maintains that he had nothing to do with her death. 

After repeatedly telling the police that he was not at Sandy's house on the day of her death, Maloney's sudden admission on the surveillance tape gives Green Bay police enough evidence to arrest him in Las Vegas...