Crime, Chaos, Corruption Documentary Reviews
When I saw Colin Kaepernick was associated with Killing County, I thought I was going to get something self-righteous and slanted. As much as I want to agree with every point he makes, the man loves nothing more than the attention he gets for it. Killing County was different. Someone was smart to let him... Continue Reading →
Young love and a lot of murder is one way to sum up the possible story behind The Twelfth Victim. The other is far less sexy. It involves an 18-year-old going on a killing spree with a 14-year-old girl hostage. A lot of what happened is known. Whether or not Caril Fugate was a willing... Continue Reading →
The revived Unsolved Mysteries series on Netflix doesn’t have the same feel as the old Robert Stack version. Nevertheless, it’s a fantastic rendition of a classic. Rather than give us an hour of television with about four stories lasting ten minutes, each episode of the new Unsolved Mysteries is a single case. I’ve enjoyed most... Continue Reading →
What Fortune Seller: A TV Scam is all about without spoiling the show Fortune Seller: A TV Scam takes us to Italy for the story of Wanna Marchi and her daughter Stefania Nobile whose best contributions to society might be how much fun it is to say their names. They are a mother and daughter... Continue Reading →
What Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey is all about without ruining the show Looking for a weird modern day cult story? Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey tackles Warren Jeffs. He’s one of the more well-known cult leaders of the 21st Century. He’s an absolute creep and it’s so obvious from photographs. Keep Sweet, which I’ll... Continue Reading →
What Captive Audience: A Real American Horror story is all about without spoiling the show Captive Audience: A Real American Horror story is a tale in two parts covering two different cases very much related to each other. First, it’s the story of Steven Stayner who at seven years old is abducted by Kenneth Parnell.... Continue Reading →
What Evil Genius is all about without ruining the show Back before I knew how much I enjoyed true crime documentaries, I heard on a sports radio show of all places, a recommendation for a Netflix series called Evil Genius. I took the recommendation to heart and watched what became one of my early favorites... Continue Reading →
What Have You Seen This Man? is all about without spoiling the show Have You Seen This Man is the story of John Ruffo who, after being sentenced to a 17-year prison term for his connection to a scam, disappears. Ruffo’s whereabouts are unknown but alleged connections to the FBI, Russia, and maybe even the... Continue Reading →
What Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street is all about without spoiling the show Uh, this one is pretty self-explanatory. Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street is about none other than Bernie Madoff and the Ponzi Scheme which made him a household name and not for a good reason. Judging by the title, you can... Continue Reading →
What Dead Asleep is all about without spoiling the show The true crime documentary Dead Asleep covers the case of Randy Herman and the murder of Brooke Preston. Why is this one worth a documentary? Randy admits to the crime immediately and later uses sleepwalking as the defense. Dead Asleep examines the details of the... Continue Reading →
What The Keepers is all about without spoiling the show The Keepers is a layered true crime documentary about more than the death of a nun in Baltimore. While the murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik is a focal point of the story, there is a lot more to uncover. Along with trying to find the... Continue Reading →
What Down the Hill is all about without spoiling the show Down the Hill is the story of what became known as the Delphi Bridge Murders. By the time I watched it, the story was very outdated because it was a newer case and there was a lot of mystery at the time when Down... Continue Reading →
What The Anthrax Attacks is all about without ruining the show A well-documented case anyone who was around in 2001 will remember, The Anthrax Attacks is the story of the post-9/11 mailings of anthrax to both prominent people and regular citizens. The documentary uses some good reenactments to tell the story of the man, Bruce... Continue Reading →
What Sins of Our Mother is all about without spoiling the show Sins of Our Mother is far too difficult to describe without giving away too many spoilers. The basic premise is a mother, Lori Vallow, who seems to have an affinity with a strange cult-like belief about the end of days and a chubby... Continue Reading →
There will be a season two of Ryan Murphy’s show Monster. Season one focused on the notorious boogeyman, Jeffrey Dahmer. Season two’s main subject has yet to be named but there are plenty of candidates out. Unfortunately, serial killers walk among us. Our fascination with them, in documentary or scripted biography format, only seems to... Continue Reading →
Season one of Ryan Murphy’s show Monster took a scripted look at the life and crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer. There will be a second season. With Dahmer already getting his head bashed in, Murphy will need to look somewhere else. The first season did feature scenes with Ed Gein and John Wayne Gacy. Gein might... Continue Reading →
What The Tetris Murders is all about without spoiling the show The Tetris Murders covers the story of a Russian immigrant, Vladimir Pokhilko, who was involved in the creation of the video game Tetris. Years later, he allegedly killed his wife and young son while taking his own life. The problem is that much of... Continue Reading →
What The Thin Blue Line is all about without spoiling the show This 1980s true crime documentary is the story of a man imprisoned for murdering a police officer. It sounds simple enough, but The Thin Blue Line sets a high bar. Both the imprisoned and the only other suspect in the case, a much... Continue Reading →
What Sole Survivor is all about without spoiling the show Sole Survivor has an incredibly unique premise. It follows the story of several individuals who were the lone person to survive a major plane crash. The focus is on one man in particular who, as a teenager, survived a plane crash. Now, as an adult,... Continue Reading →
What Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields is all about without spoiling the show The documentary Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields, which’ll now be referred to as The Texas Killing Fields from now on in this review, is about a well-known case in, of all places, Texas! A series of bodies are found along... Continue Reading →
What The Watcher is all about without spoiling the show This scripted series is the story of a family that moves into a new home in Westfield, New Jersey only to soon receive threatening letters in the mail from someone who calls themselves The Watcher. The neighbors and other people the family interact with are... Continue Reading →
What FIFA Uncovered is all about without completely ruining the show Every four years, the world gathers around to enjoy the World Cup. The organization running this soccer tournament isn’t the cleanest. FIFA Uncovered does exactly what the title of this documentary claims it will. It uncovers FIFA, strips it naked, and reminds sports fans... Continue Reading →
What The Clown & The Candyman is all about without spoiling the show Two of the sickest serial killers might have actually had a connection according to thise true crime documentary. The Clown & The Candyman proposes an idea that John Wayne Gacy and Dean Corll may have been part of a pedophile ring extending... Continue Reading →
What FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened is all about without spoiling the show For the sake of keeping it simple, I’ll refer to this documentary simply as FYRE. Repeatedly mentioning it as the greatest party that never happened will get tiring. We all know it didn't happen. Let's not waste words. Deal? Not... Continue Reading →
What The Killer Nanny: Did She Do It? Is all about without spoiling the show The Killer Nanny: Did She Do It? is the story of and English woman who comes to the United States, lives in Boston, and ends up on trial for the murder of an infant. Did she do it? The documentary... Continue Reading →
What Two Shallow Graves is all about without spoiling the show The high-profile disappearance of the McStay Family of four (Joseph, Summer, Gianni, and Joseph Jr.) is the case discussed in this true crime documentary. This is a case many people followed when it was merely a missing persons case. There was a ton of... Continue Reading →
Practically Trouble 