This was a over-dramatic, aimless/meandering documentary apparently about the "Long Island Serial Killer" (though by the end of the Series the starting point/supposed focus of the series is completely forgotten). It mostly centers on two self-important documentary film-makers who for some reason believe they are much better at solving crimes than the Police, despite having never solved any crimes or identified any killers.
Mostly they just travel to different locations around the Country trying to determine if obviously unconnected crimes are connected (because for some reason you have to physically go there to figure that out...). Throughout the course of the series they make accusations against private citizens, Police officers, and entire Police departments based on no evidence whatsoever/the word of drug addicts, criminals, and prostitutes.
Drug addicts and prostitutes are portrayed as good hard working "down on their luck" moms/women "struggling with addition" or "working to support their habit and their family" rather than the drug addicted criminals they are, people who are actively killing themselves, funding the drug trade and would literally sell their own child for a quick fix. Police/Law Enforcement on the other hand are portrayed as corrupt, lazy, inept criminals, who have problems with "use of force" and something to hide...people perpetuating a system that purposely ignores the plight of the poor innocent and honest crack addicts/prostitutes. These two really go after the Police Officers and Police departments not willing to jeopardize open cases by giving them interviews.
The German "profiler" or whoever he was that was on a few of the episodes really is kind of the personification of this series. He says things that sound interesting but completely fall apart under any scrutiny. One example is his laughing and saying, "When in the last 500 years has a serial killer left bodies anywhere near his home?... Ted Bundy had the record....125 miles..." Umm...John Wayne Gacy, H. H. Holmes, Anthony Sowell, and Dennis Nilsen off the top of my head. I'm sure there are many more examples. The point is, this documentary is like this "profiler" proudly declaring things to be facts with out doing the slightest bit of research/without any evidence whatsoever.
In the end the narcissistic hosts conclude that because the law enforcement aren't/weren't magically aware that people with no family or friends to report them missing (largely a result of their own life choices and anti-social/criminal behavior...) are missing that the Police are worthless, the "system is broken", and private citizens like themselves have to be the ones to investigate crimes such as murder. What's next?... Mobs of random people deciding a person's guilt and what their punishment should be?
Anyway, it is one of the worst most meandering documentary series I have seen in quite sometime. It is about as dramatic as big foot/paranormal investigator tv programs..."What's that noise!... Oh yeah...It's nothing...Again...".
Mostly they just travel to different locations around the Country trying to determine if obviously unconnected crimes are connected (because for some reason you have to physically go there to figure that out...). Throughout the course of the series they make accusations against private citizens, Police officers, and entire Police departments based on no evidence whatsoever/the word of drug addicts, criminals, and prostitutes.
Drug addicts and prostitutes are portrayed as good hard working "down on their luck" moms/women "struggling with addition" or "working to support their habit and their family" rather than the drug addicted criminals they are, people who are actively killing themselves, funding the drug trade and would literally sell their own child for a quick fix. Police/Law Enforcement on the other hand are portrayed as corrupt, lazy, inept criminals, who have problems with "use of force" and something to hide...people perpetuating a system that purposely ignores the plight of the poor innocent and honest crack addicts/prostitutes. These two really go after the Police Officers and Police departments not willing to jeopardize open cases by giving them interviews.
The German "profiler" or whoever he was that was on a few of the episodes really is kind of the personification of this series. He says things that sound interesting but completely fall apart under any scrutiny. One example is his laughing and saying, "When in the last 500 years has a serial killer left bodies anywhere near his home?... Ted Bundy had the record....125 miles..." Umm...John Wayne Gacy, H. H. Holmes, Anthony Sowell, and Dennis Nilsen off the top of my head. I'm sure there are many more examples. The point is, this documentary is like this "profiler" proudly declaring things to be facts with out doing the slightest bit of research/without any evidence whatsoever.
In the end the narcissistic hosts conclude that because the law enforcement aren't/weren't magically aware that people with no family or friends to report them missing (largely a result of their own life choices and anti-social/criminal behavior...) are missing that the Police are worthless, the "system is broken", and private citizens like themselves have to be the ones to investigate crimes such as murder. What's next?... Mobs of random people deciding a person's guilt and what their punishment should be?
Anyway, it is one of the worst most meandering documentary series I have seen in quite sometime. It is about as dramatic as big foot/paranormal investigator tv programs..."What's that noise!... Oh yeah...It's nothing...Again...".