True Crime Story: It Couldn't Happen Here

Keep these episodes coming. Hilarie does a great job at this. She may have producers but you can feel her genuine care when talking about these stories. She is refreshing. There are lots of crime documentaries out there to compete with. She really cares about getting the whole story out there. It has been a long time since I have seen such good factual storytelling. I hope they do updates on some of these stories. I hope Christians family finds peace. I hope they all do actually. Hilarie be proud of this work, it's fantastic. I look forward to more episodes I binge watched like 12 episodes in one night.

Hilarie Burton-Morgan sets the new standard for true crime documentarians. As her role attests, she is an advocate for the victims and for those whom our imperfect justice system has failed. She isn't just another talking-head "host" asking the same repetitive questions each episode straight off the teleprompter. It's apparent that Hilarie has studied the cases she covers, conveys genuine emotion about the people and events, and that she is interested in the actual truth, not simplistic sensationalism. True crime = the Truth in this series. Stop reading this and start watching this show!!!!! Put it on your watch list so you're notified of new episodes. But fair warning - YOU'RE GOING TO BINGE WATCH EVERY SINGLE EPISODE STRAIGHT THROUGH. Forget sleep and order in. You'll be glad you did.

The show had potential to be fairly interesting. However, the host inserts herself in every way possible, and has little to add by way of informed commentary. Her reactions to interviewees seem stilted and insincere. When she interviews an expert, more focus is paid to showing her boots or her hair than to the actual statements and facial expressions of the experts themselves.

As other reviewers have stated, the stories seem to be very one-sided. There is little shrift paid to victims and their families. And the opposing viewpoints are never aired.

Additionally, none of the stories seem to have a resolution. Everything is left up in the air. As though the point of this was to just travel around small towns, rake up trouble about the past, and then leave everything the way she found it. Definitely would give this one a pass. So much more available that is better done.

I wanted to like this show but after watching episode 2 I just could take it seriously. I've seen the Yoder story told in a couple of other shows that talk about the evidence with detectives and prosecutor. They did a much better job at explaining why the Kate was found guilty. For starters, this episode doesn't talk about all the forensic evidence they found.

The only DNA found on the bottle was Kate's. Secondly, she was obsessed with the son Adam. When he wanted to end things, she tried to accuse him of sexual assault. The detectives looked into it and found zero evidence. They also found a ton of online evidence, not just on her work computer, but on her phone. She created the email days before she ordered the poison. The password for the email? It was "Adamisgay"

At the end, she poisoned the mom hoping she could get the son back. She was there at her death bed consoling the son. He was also the one who gave her the job at the practice. And the husband? He had an alibi and the affair with the sister started after his wife's death.

This episode also didn't show the victim statement the son gave at Kate's sentencing. He was beyond crying and blaming himself for brining her into his family. This show lost all my respect for portraying that psycho monster as an innocent woman.

I absolutely love this show, I love how the approach is different from other ways crime stories are told. Mrs. Morgan is loving and caring and that makes me love the show even more.