The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer

If you'd like to see an in-depth series concentrating on a serial killer and his crimes.....keep looking. The actual content dealing with the killer and his crimes is limited. But you'll get great content like clips from low-rent "paranormal researcher" shows that have filmed at the house in question. Because, you know, some people totally talk to ghosts (collective eyeroll). Or if you'd like a lot of information on the people who own the house now, you are in luck. Find out all about the new owner, who happens to be named Robin Graves, because of course you care about that guy, right? Anyway, it isn't good.

This show is an interesting mix of factual information and woo-hoo nonsense. The parts of the program that covered actual factual events, the victims, their families, the killer(s), and the lack of engagement from law enforcement were interesting to any true crime fan. However, the show dips into alleged psychics, bad energy, ghosts, and whoo-hoo nonsense far too often. True crime does not mix well with this kind of nonsense and it throws off the throw of the show to the point I could not finish all the episodes and instead just fast-forwarded through the bull-slingers and their monetized nonsense. This includes the new owner of the property and the weirdos who pretend they are ghost hunting. I recommend you do the same.

Extremely sad but informative. The homeowner and the paranormal team in the 2nd & 3rd Ep pissed me off though they just seemed exploitative, but I understand they were there as a way to introduce the suspected accomplice so. They might be a necessary evil as they are people who had interactions with him. I like that the documentary exposed the police departments not caring about the victims because they were gay and the families of the victims telling us who they were. I think it is important to remember them as people, not just victims. Often, victims who are gay are just not cared about, and it's an important topic to discuss. The suspected accomplice is extremely disturbing, but I enjoyed his screen time. I think they did well in cornering him to expose himself espouse because he refused to answer their questions at the end which unfortunately did make it a little anticlimactic.

No matter the story, the use of an extremely popular series' signature soundtrack is distracting to say the least. Do they have so little confidence in their production they feel the need to attach it to a popular, well done, respected series? Mind blowing and not in a good way. Have some respect for the audience and deliver a production that can stand on its own.

Bounces from wall to wall, from hearsay to hearsay, from one version of the truth to another with the main subject witness / suspect being obviously mentally compromised who at times seems to think it's all a big joke, at times lies and at times basically adds nothing to further the investigation or the story.

By the time you get to episode 4 you realise you've been sold a dud and that it's all probably just a show that's put on for television and has very little to do with reality.

Even if you have time to waste you'd probably be better off reading about this online instead of having to sit through some of the most non credible, semi scripted doco footage ever brought to screen.