This is driving me crazy. All I really remember of it is the ending. Don’t even recall who starred in it. Detectives investigating a case of missing children go to a house and see a grainy image of children on a monitor. They appear to be lying dead, with bleeding head wounds. Then one of the detectives hears a squeaky dog toy, which leads them to the basement where the children are alive – they are actually asleep on their coats but the low quality of the monitor made it look like bleeding head wounds. The perpetrator shoots himself and the children are freed. If anybody can shed any light on this, I’d be very grateful!
That might be an episode of the TV show “Touching Evil.” It was shown on PBS in America. It is called “Through the Clouds.”
The Bad Guy doesn’t shoot himself, though. He is shot (murdered) by a police officer because they can’t prove he did it.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1317983/?ref_=ttep_ep1