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Especially the opening and closing shots with the BTK killer *shudders*
I was surprised that there was less of a focus of the serial killer interviews this time around. Other than Charles Manson, Son Of Sam, and Wendy’s first interview, it didn’t seem like the show focused on them much which is a bit surprising after they were talked about as being most people’s favourite part of the first season. I was expecting more of Kemper too than just that one brief scene, although it probably was one of the most memorable parts of the season when he points out that they can only interview and profile the serial killers who have been caught, while presumedly the really skilled ones are the ones who are hiding in plain sight?
Other than those interviews though, Holden especially seemed really disinterested with some of the less infamous killers, and then in the second half of the season the focus shifts completely to the Atlanta child murder investigation. It is interesting that everyone seemed so excited about them speaking to Manson (Holden too was so in awe of him), and he was very much seen as the biggest get, when show itself points out that he was the only one they interviewed who never actually personally killed anyone. I wonder what it is that makes some killers so much more notorious than others...I was surprised that I had never heard of the candy man killer before actually when, on the face of it, his body count was far higher than Manson and Son Of Sam, not to mention the torturing of his victims over days and managing to convince two young teenage boys to go along with luring others to him, yet it doesn’t seem to be remembered as one of the really notorious true crime stories in the same way?
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I was surprised that there was less of a focus of the serial killer interviews this time around. Other than Charles Manson, Son Of Sam, and Wendy’s first interview, it didn’t seem like the show focused on them much which is a bit surprising after they were talked about as being most people’s favourite part of the first season. I was expecting more of Kemper too than just that one brief scene, although it probably was one of the most memorable parts of the season when he points out that they can only interview and profile the serial killers who have been caught, while presumedly the really skilled ones are the ones who are hiding in plain sight?
Other than those interviews though, Holden especially seemed really disinterested with some of the less infamous killers, and then in the second half of the season the focus shifts completely to the Atlanta child murder investigation. It is interesting that everyone seemed so excited about them speaking to Manson (Holden too was so in awe of him), and he was very much seen as the biggest get, when show itself points out that he was the only one they interviewed who never actually personally killed anyone. I wonder what it is that makes some killers so much more notorious than others...I was surprised that I had never heard of the candy man killer before actually when, on the face of it, his body count was far higher than Manson and Son Of Sam, not to mention the torturing of his victims over days and managing to convince two young teenage boys to go along with luring others to him, yet it doesn’t seem to be remembered as one of the really notorious true crime stories in the same way?
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