Killer in Question (2020– ) User Reviews

Better than most crime documentary

[marioantonov · 9/10 · 23 November 2020]

Finally a film that engages you in it. Most of the time of the series you are wondering what if he is innocent. Thankfully there are not unnecessary dramatisations and representations of the crime. It is using only acual footage and the series are going through different point of views represented by parties involved in it. I personally enjoyed it very much and would definately recomend it to someone who likes good crime documentary. I would compare it with the first 48 though it is too early to say if it will become such a masterpiece.

WOW!!!!! MY WIFE AND I LOVE THESE!!!!

[amberdsny · 9/10 · 12 December 2021]

I love how intense every episode is. I have to say I. The second episode that cop is racist!!!! Who the hell says "I don't know, there was to many Mexicans at her house I lost count!!!!! This cop is disgusting to the badge!!!!!! I love all 3 episodes.

Best New English Language True Crime Series

[hilaryjrp · 10/10 · 22 March 2021]

This series runs long--for a reason. The back-and-forth claims by people involved in these decades-long struggles for justice are *HURTING.* The long running-time captures the "go nowhere" feeling probably everyone--including the guilty--feel as the years drag on, and the killer in question is still a matter of doubt. I've never seen another series that dares what "Killer in Question" dares: allowing people to use their gut feelings as evidence. I love this show for pushing the envelope. In some episodes, you hate the cops and investigators. In others, you wonder how they managed not to go insane from mistreatment--at the hands of their colleagues! There's raw pain and raw hatred, and it's not pretty. It is also not exploitative, as 90% of "true" crime shows are. Gets a 10 from me.

Endless repeated scenes kills this story flat

[Xavier_Stone · 4/10 · 17 November 2020]

In the first 15 minutes there are 2-3 repeats of the two detectives. Then again, and another repeated court scene. Then a bit of exposition, then more repeats.

I'm 20 minutes in and they are already using every trick, cut scenes with text and dramatic music to amp up the tension.

Just tell the story already. It feels like this was written for TV and rehashed itself every 10 minutes for commercials. Very hard to watch, nobody seems to have any clue what's going on, everything is speculation.

Most are clear cut cases, ruining the premiss

[ndesautels · 2/10 · 4 October 2022]

There are hundreds, if not thousands of cases in the States with reasonable doubt yet most of the episodes choose obvious cases of guilt. Most of the doubt is baseless rumours. The sheriff's soon looks a bit like the compost stech, but there witness days it's not him, there FBI fully vetted his alibi, he has no motive or connection to the crime, someone else confesses to the crime; but apparently there's doubt. A woman visits her Grandmother there day she is murdered, but her polygraph is inconclusive, cops lie in her interrogation that her car was there, there's no motive or evidence, someone else is caught and he's fingerprints are at the scene; again I fail to see where the doubt is. Yet alone the case of the rapists who kills an 11 year old girl, who's fingerprints are in his car, and is later convicted of a rape and murder.

This could have been a really interesting series, examining convictions with reasonable doubt like so many podcasts do now. Instead they spend an hour and half on baseless rumours, suspicion and conspiracy theories.