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Or, watch any of several videos on YouTube that cover all the bases on this, and usually in twenty minutes or less.

This is less a crime documentary than it is a report about tabloid media, and thus the length of this series was just far too long. It quickly grew tedious for me, and frustrating, so by mid episode two, I was either going to skip ahead to find out the verdict, or skip it altogether and Google it to find a conclusion. I chose the latter, read some articles on the case and was done on 15 minutes.

He is an abuser and a controlling weirdo. After getting out of prison, involved in more similar incidents. I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen again, sadly.

This is a very good documentary. You can't any more access than the brothers' own words 30 some years after the fact. It's well paced, doesn't seem to long or too brief. Most of the interviewees are well spoken, and relevant to the case.

I remember watching the trial on TV when it happened. I believed them then, and I still do. The testimony of the fathers own relatives was telling. And they couldn't find a single witness to say something nice about the parents? Obviously, they deserved to be punished, it was a brutal scene with a lot of overkill, and so it's as to what degree. I believe they've been in there long enough, and I'm confident they would've received manslaughter if the trial were held today. And I absolutely do not think they'd be a threat to society, not at all.

The prosecutor came off as arrogant, but I've seen many times that's par for the course. She was gifted the first degree sentences by a biased, seemingly annoyed judge who refused testimony on their behalf. That was unfortunate. Jurors were left with no choice.

I liked this for the most part. The cases are interesting and the vast majority of them were new to me.

The re-enactment's can be a little cheezie, but aren't they always? They mostly didn't bother me, and don't dominate the show. Those are offset by interviews with people who were there at the time; primarily family members of the victims, and of course, the law enforcement who worked on the cases.

A lot of reviewers seem to have a problem with the narrator. I didn't. His voice seems to fit the subject matter, and he sounds similar to the original City Confidential narrator, Paul Winfield. I've heard much worse.

For myself, these shows are all about the cases and how they were solved, and this series brings that. Overall, I think it's a solid who-done-it? Most of the cases are quite intriguing with plenty of twists to keep you guessing till the end.