😍 2022-12-12 11:17:05 – Paris/France.
The series 'Scene of the crime' stops in its third installment in the so-called "death camps of Texas", open fields near Houston where the bodies of young people who disappeared months before have been found. True Crime this time focuses not on the elusive serial killer responsible, but on the consequences for the families of the victims that the cases have gone unsolved for years.
By Marina Tel – 12 Dec 2022
Crime scene is part of the series true crime more Netflix veterans, plus conversations with assassins Yes unsolved mysteries. All of its installments revolved around cases that stood out to feature a fairly spectacular and highly publicized crime scene. The first told of the mysterious disappearance of a young woman in the former Hotel Cecil in Los Angeles; the second focused on the so-called Torso Killer, who performed in New York's Times Square area in the 1970s, and the third goes to Texas to show the disturbing history of the "killing fields"wooded, semi-swampy open spaces near Houston where the bodies of young women who disappeared months earlier from the area appeared.
Crime Scene: Texas Killing Fields it has, of course, a striking title and a premise that also inspired the film land of murder (with Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Jessica Chastain): On vast land belonging to one of the area's petrochemical industries, along the I-45 route between Houston and Galveston, more than thirty human remains dating from the late 1970s and well before the 2000s. They all belong to young women who had been missing in the area, some for more than a year previously, and not all of them could be identified. And all their deaths remain unsolved or, at least, without anyone being able to be formally charged.
One thing that usually unites the seasons of Crime scene it is his tendency to wallow in the more sinister details of the case he is exploring. He tries to put the times into context so that the public can better understand certain elements of the case, but sometimes the sensationalism gets the better of him. The disappearance of the Hotel Cecil is the clearest example of this; the questions of the story are forced to last longer than advised and an aura of mystery is given to something much easier to explain and, ultimately, more tragic than enigmatic.
Texas Killing Fieldsfor the most part manages to avoid this tendency by avoiding one of the great sins of true crime, which is the fascination with the murderers and the neglect of the victims. There are two good examples of docu-series in this style that go another route and succeed in their approach (the faceless killer Yes The Yorkshire Ripper), and this third part of Crime scene partly follows his model by deciding that the center of his story are the relatives of the victims and the price the business demanded in them.
The main protagonist of this aspect is Tim Millerthrough which we begin to learn about the "death camps" (from the name of the film the cries of silencewhich told the story of the "death camps" of the Khmer Rouge dictatorship in Cambodia). His daughter Laura disappeared in 1984, aged 16, and her body was found two years later. They were a few meters from the of Heidi Fye, who was not heard from again in 1983. Her body was not found until 1984.
Tim Miller is one of the main characters in “The Texas Killing Fields”. / Courtesy of Netflix.
Miller isn't the only parent Jessica Dimmock interviewed (captivate the audience); we also meet the niece of Heidi Fye, the parents of Laura Smither, kidnapped in 1997, or even Marla, the stepdaughter of one of the suspects in the murders, Clyde Heddrick. However, Miller's portrayal gives some insight into how the years of uncertainty over her daughter's fate and, later, the feeling that justice was not working hard enough to find her killer they end up completely marking his life. Miller has dedicated her time to investigating the case on her own and incidentally helping other families searching for missing relatives in the same area. The tragedy goes far beyond the death of a teenager.
It's there that Texas Killing Fields separates from the true crime common on Netflix. Provides context at the time, what Houston looked like in the 1960s and 1970s, and how the police handled cases of missing young peopleassuming by default that they had run away from home, but it is the weight of the years, the uncertainty and the slowness of justice in the families of the victims that is really interesting.
Plus, it doesn't try to squeeze the story too tightly; In three chapters, what happens is perfectly told, why it happens and the consequences it has in the present, and some answers are proposed to the enigmas presented which, yes, are not final. In this case, the fact that the cases officially remain unsolved leads the series to take the most appropriate approach when it comes to telling the story.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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