Pointing out the insane number of predominantly black women being strangled and dumped in Chicago this documentary does not spectacularly end with one serial killer behind bars but illuminates:
- the reasons for these parts of the city having become a "hunting/dumping" ground
- the Murder Accountability Project - a database to find clusters and offer an opportunity to spot similarities between homicides - ( I didn't know about it and was instantly super excited. I can only pray & hope the EU can find 2 active braincells to instigate such a project for Europe).
- the refusal of people in charge (police, politics?) to take the whole subject matter seriously (for example: Mr Hargrove having contacted Gary, Indiana police because of a pattern he saw before serial killer Vann was caught. Police dismissed him. Police giving false information when asked if they'd communicated with Hammond police regarding Vann's victims.)
- some of the victims, their lives & their loved ones
- and the people trying to do something
No empty talk, no empty visuals - (no re enactments thank God)
I am excessively watching crime related stuff ( - anything crime/psychology/forensic: I want it - if it's not distorted by a. Re enactments for dramatisation or b. Commentary by unrelated, unqualified people for filler purposes) and I am telling you:
Seriously! Watch it!
It's educative, respectful, moving & inspiring.
PS: Please don't listen to reviewers feeling personally attacked by people who try to instigate dialogues underlining flaws in the 'system'. A system upheld by humans - a system that can also be changed by humans.