Relying on stretching the "truth", ignoring the whole concept of "truth" entirely at times, circular questions "answered" only by other questions, and to top it off, to give it an extra creepy vibe, Blair Witch/Ghost Hunter type scenes unnecessarily shot at night when they could have been shot during the day to enable the viewer to actually see what was on the walls they were pointing to and referencing...
The problem here is that the guy was convicted on ENTIRELY circumstantial evidence, on the basis of "eyewitnesses" who were stoned out of their gourds 20 years before but suddenly after the fact "remembered" stuff - never mind the sticky detail that none of their memories actually match the others'.
The idea that this guy is "creepy" because his bone structure is gaunt or any of the rest of it is nonsense. What's creepy are the scenes of the community standing around looking at him coming and going to court with their mob scene expressions. And yes, it's creepy that these four or five children disappeared and their remains were never found. And creepy that any of a number of individuals could have done it (despite none of that being really solved, with a conviction randomly hung on one guy with zero real evidence). But the fact is that thousands of kids disappear every year, and this "documentary" is about a few kids from a while ago. In the end the court just hangs the blame on one guy without any real evidence, after which the simpletons gathered outside the courtroom stand there slack-jawed, patting themselves on the back, to later rest their heads on their pillows thinking they "did the right thing" (by making up "memories" to pin this on him) and also thinking they've somehow made the world safer for children - by NOT finding and convicting who actually committed these crimes... The fact that that represents a typical cross section of modern society is truly chilling.
The problem here is that the guy was convicted on ENTIRELY circumstantial evidence, on the basis of "eyewitnesses" who were stoned out of their gourds 20 years before but suddenly after the fact "remembered" stuff - never mind the sticky detail that none of their memories actually match the others'.
The idea that this guy is "creepy" because his bone structure is gaunt or any of the rest of it is nonsense. What's creepy are the scenes of the community standing around looking at him coming and going to court with their mob scene expressions. And yes, it's creepy that these four or five children disappeared and their remains were never found. And creepy that any of a number of individuals could have done it (despite none of that being really solved, with a conviction randomly hung on one guy with zero real evidence). But the fact is that thousands of kids disappear every year, and this "documentary" is about a few kids from a while ago. In the end the court just hangs the blame on one guy without any real evidence, after which the simpletons gathered outside the courtroom stand there slack-jawed, patting themselves on the back, to later rest their heads on their pillows thinking they "did the right thing" (by making up "memories" to pin this on him) and also thinking they've somehow made the world safer for children - by NOT finding and convicting who actually committed these crimes... The fact that that represents a typical cross section of modern society is truly chilling.