“Apple Cider Vinegar” is is a ripped-from-the-headlines drama based closely on a 2015 book, “The Woman Who Fooled the World,” by investigative journalists Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano.

For Sylvia Cerel-Suhl and her daughter, Sara Suhl, this once-in-a-lifetime 30 Rock adventure was decades in the making.

A Yale graduate student and U.S. army veteran was killed in what initially appeared to be a random act of violence, and a ...