Hell in the Heartland: What Happened to Ashley and Lauria

If you enjoy 3 hours of two "filmmakers/investigators" mugging for the camera and stating already stated facts over and over again, with an occasional nugget of useful information sprinkled in, then you'll love this mockumentary. This is a story that could have been told in 30 minutes. I suppose it was. Unfortunately you have to wade through three hours of these women gleefully yammering endlessly on camera to get the 30 minutes of story that had been dismembered and scattered throughout this 3 hour crime scene. Good documentaries do not include hours of the filmmakers on screen. They are obstacles to the story inserted for their own edification and to artificially elongate a story arc. I want my 3 hours back. I feel sorry for the families who had know idea they were being used as bait to entice people to watch the Jax and Sarah (I think that's their names) show. What a sad joke. You are investigators in the same way Geraldo was the investigator into Al Capone's vault. If you ever con anyone else into funding another film, try to put the camera on the story not your own faces. You're really not that interesting.

Horribly done-like watching something from ID network- this 'author' who's never done a single investigation, couple with a supposed CI, and they're unbelievably ignorant when it comes to a case. So Shane, who's supposedly a 'good kid' bot in any serious trouble, somehow goes from zero to 60 overnight? Involved in numerous B and Es, GTA, and gets pulled over and we're supposed to suspend reality to believe this kid wasn't going to shoot a deputy? The fact that he's pulling out a shotgun is accepted fact by all parties, but he was doing so in self-defense? You have got to be kidding me.

Every single exposition by these two pseudo-crime fighters is laughable- and after 30 minutes I just shut it off. Save yourself 4 hours and do a Google search, instead.

What starts out as a really interesting true crime story quickly devolves into an ego trip for the two "experts" shooting this. This isn't a story about the missing girls, it's about two insecure women who want so desperately to be famous that they would exploit a real tragety.

Seriously. Save yourself 2hrs. Episode 1 is interesting and tells you all the background you need for the case. Episodes 2 and 3 do nothing but repeat the same conversations over and over. Episode 4 moves the case on.

For a fun game, keep track of how the two 'investigators' choose to sit whilst discussing the case with each other. At one point, one of them was knelt down behind the couch?!?

Just finished first episode.

The investigators(?) talk about how cold it was during investigation, but, when showing footage, not a single person is wearing so much as a jacket.

It's mentioned that there was no Amber Alert issued. Amber Alert was not a thing in Oklahoma at the time.