Investigation Discovery’s A Time to Kill takes viewers into a thorough investigation to find a suspect. It explores the reconstruction of the crime’s timeline and the suspect’s motive. The show aired the inquiry following the brutal killing of Alexandra Ducsay in 2006. 

Ducsay was an award-winning dancer and an aspiring actress from Milford, Connecticut. She also worked as a systems bank analyst. Ducsay had also starred in an episode of Law & Order and ran a charity that provided necessities to schoolchildren from economically backward communities. Alexandra was a graduate of Albertus Magnus. 

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According to records, Alexandra started dating Matthew Pugh when she was 16. They had met at a bookstore and hit it off. However, things changed when they broke up because Pugh was arrested on drug-related charges. 

While Pugh was in prison, he began threatening Ducsay. When he was released in 2004, he started obsessively stalking and harassing Ducsay. 

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Two years later, in 2006, her mother found Alexandra Ducsay in the basement of her house in Milford. She has been bludgeoned and stabbed to death. The crime scene was gruesome, with blood splattered all over the place. 

As per autopsy reports, it was confirmed that Ducsay had died of blunt force trauma to her upper body. It was also reported that her mouth had been tightly shut, and she was beaten with such force that her teeth were found inside her stomach. 

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Nothing from her apartment had been moved except a dance trophy which was then declared the murder weapon. An inch-long black vinyl tape was found stuck to Ducsay’s left cheek. A plastic bag with a knife blade was also discovered beside Ducsay’s body.

The black vinyl tape served as crucial evidence. A police investigation determined that the rare brand had only three outlets in America. Matthew Pugh was an employee in one of the outlets. The second piece of evidence against Pugh was provided by Jason Malone, a co-worker of Ducsay, who said he was talking to Alexandra over the phone on the day of her murder. Ducsay’s tone changed during the conversation when she realized that Pugh had entered her house. She informed Malone of the same and hung up. 

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Despite the evidence, the case went cold and would not be solved for another 6 years. In January 2012, one of Pugh’s cousins told the police that Matthew Pugh had confessed to him that he was planning to kill Ducsay as revenge for reporting him for harassment. 

The mounting evidence against Pugh prompted the case to be reopened. Finally, in 2015, Matthew Pugh was charged with Alexandra Ducsay’s murder and robbery. He was sentenced to 60 years to life in prison, with an additional 20 years to be served concurrently for first-degree robbery.