The Killing Season

While investigating the "west mesa" killer, Josh and Rachel consult amateur profiler Peter Brendt. He says (paraphrasing) "when in the past 500 years has a serial killer buried his bodies so close to home? The record was Ted Bundy at 120 miles"... have you ever heard of John Wayne Gacy (killer clown)? He buried 40 boys under the floorboards of his basement. Perhaps you may have heard of Anthony Sowell (Cleveland Strangler), who lived among dozens of corpses in his own house. Or Anthony's copycat Michael Madison. Or H. H. Holmes for god sake. I think Peter Brendt made some very good observations but this comment had me yelling at the TV. They even mention Sowell and Madison with Brendt in the last episode but give no explanation to his comment from the previous episode.

I like many have always loved following and keeping up with real life unsolved murders especially that of serial killings. Of late one of the most famous is that of the "Long Island Serial Killer" and that's where this A@E series "The Killing Season" begins. The series follows two Documentarians Joshua and Rachel who investigative serial killings all around the U.S., as mentioned the series starts out on Long Island, only to branch out to Atalntic City, NJ as a group of bodies found in America's playground were similar to the ones in Long Island, NY with all being sex workers, escorts, and street walkers could it be the same killer? The series makes connection to different unsolved murders it features interviews with victims family members and police and theories are provided from private investigators and comments are giving on the web from many sources. Plus geography plays a part in the series as Josh and Rachel believe that the killer travels up and down the east coast and the interstate system is looked up at as a dumping ground of truck driving serial killers. And VICAP is spotlighted and the theory is giving that police around the country don't share information and police corruption is often the problem that many of these serial cases aren't solved. The series even branches out west to the New Mexico sand area to hunt for a killer after many bodies are found. Overall thought provoking and informative investigative series need I say more.

Just finished the first episode and I'm going to ramble off why the show sucks but is still decent enough to have as something on in the background. They're using websleuth and wikipedia to chase down leads. All you have to do is go to websleuth and click any thread at random and you'll see that the website is filled with extremely bored housewives that have read one too many sexy murder novels or borderline schizo delusional individuals that make up random nonsense with no basis in reality. Then they're literally tracking down and confronting people based on Wikipedia edits. They're also using an absolutely completely random foreigner that called into a radio program as an expert. They dropped off a prostitute at a hotel and started panicking after she was in there for more than an hour as if this was some sort of legitimate job where at an hour she just packs up and leaves. Then they play a recording of the guy that they tracked down and confronted expecting a girl to recognize the voice 6 years later when she has tons of random guys calling her every day. This is like children playing detective. I'm going to watch the entire series but only after watching the first episode it's clear to me what kind of show this is.

It's seems the negative reviews have some sort of ulterior motives, anyone interest in shows involving unsolved crimes/murders would find this show interesting.

I can say despite the negative reviews the families who live in the wakes of these murders are happy to see some attention and light shined on these cases.

Amazing documentary that totally went under the radar!! It's one of the greatests true crime documentaries I've ever seen!