The police “took her statement, but nothing was done about it,” Nelson remembers. The only reason she survived the attack is because she worked the streets, and people checked in on girls who were on the clock. “He cold cocked me,” she remembers, knocking her out without warning. The interview with Hilda Nelson, a victim who lived, is unsparing. Look as hard at the victims as you do at the killer, and don’t let the investigators off the hook. Berlinger doesn’t dive headlong into a search for justice in this documentary, he fulfills the promise made by Lauren. It is sometimes a cacophony of dissonance, but the messages are unmistakable. Berlinger steps aside as a filmmaker so the victims can be heard loud and clear.
Bulger, and Netflix’s Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich and Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. Joe Berlinger is a true crime genre pioneer, co-directing the Paradise Lost trilogy, Whitey: United States of America V. It induces a kind of Stockholm syndrome, but we identify with Lauren, and she identifies with the victims. The viewer is held captive for five hours, bound by the bare bones presentation but mesmerized by the investigator’s journey. It is blunt and honest, straightforward and absolutely unblinking. Confronting a Serial Killer makes victims of everyone watching. She contorts her psyche to become Little’s most enticing prey, and ends up his last psychological victim.īesides the audience, that is. This documentary shows her going beyond mere disclosures, sliding deeper into a sociopath’s world to the point of being on his list. Lauren consistently lays herself bare in her works, fully transparent about even the most intimate details of her past. She’s gone from memoirist to deep dive investigator, exposing sultans and bureaucrats. Jillian Lauren ( Some Girls: My Life in a Harem) is a Gonzo journalist on par with Jimmy Breslin. In the documentary, the authorities list dozens of reasons why they are invisible. Victimized low income and disenfranchised women of color are statistically high. Black serial killers are statistically rare, but that is only one reason Little was overlooked by the police. Little extinguished 93 lives over four decades. While Samuel Little may have racked up a higher body count, his is a lesser-known name. But the Killer Clown is one of the most recognizable names in the history of homicide. It was recently done in Peacock Originals’ John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise. Putting a human face and voice to statistics is a slowly growing trend in true crime coverage. Even the journalist spearheading the investigation is a survivor. On the scale of homicide priorities, “pretty white college students are the most dead, black hookers are the least dead.”īecause it tells a story about an under-represented and largely dismissed cross-section of the community, Confronting a Serial Killer focuses on the victims. One of the first things we learn is how victims are parsed through the criminal justice system.
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The new Starz documentary series Confronting a Serial Killer is captivating, immersive and infuriating.
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