Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields (2022)
Creator: Jessica Dimmock
An overgrown field and a stretch of highway connect a series of grisly murders spanning several decades as grieving families search for answers.
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Netflix
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Tim Miller
Self - Father of Laura Miller
Gay Smither
Self - Mother of Laura Smither
Nina Edwards
Self - Niece of Heide Fye Marla
Lise Olsen
Self - Investigative Journalist
Richard Rennison
Self - Supervisory Senior Resident Agent, FBI User Reviews (1)
Another Netflix original true crime miniseries. Like the one about the Murdaugh family, this one spotlights a scandal, but here it is not scandals of a powerful family, but the drawn-out decades-long scandal of small-town police departments that frankly are not very good at solving murders. Not through corruption but from lack of imagination and effort. This follows the families of victims more than the authorities, which ios peopper as they were ahead of the latter for most of the investigations. One fact sticks with me: the over 2000 sex offenders that they found living in this fairly low populated area. Was this part of Texas perhaps like Florida — a magnet for serial killers and sex criminals, despite the two states’ appetite for executing people? What would that say about the attitudes of law enforcement towards the victims of kidnappings and killings? But incompetence is …
