Children of the Snow

This is an important story that could be told in an hour. The repetitive cycling of the same dialogue for three hours is a regret. Really bad. Ridiculous enough to be offended.

Very informative but terribly produced. Painfully slow and repetitive. Could of been explain in two episodes.

The subject matter was interesting but 40% was repetitive and extremely slow moving. It began in an organized fashion and went off on tangents leaving the viewer unsure of what the connection was. Suspects were not clearly explained. The parents of these murdered children were not well serviced by the police or by the producers of this program.

It was a good documentary for a case I have grown up hearing about. Gave in-depth information about a 30+ year old serial children murder. I don't want to take away from the families pain from losing their children, especially in such a horrific way. My heart and prayers goes out to the families. But what I don't like is the fact the City of Detroit had very little to do with the murder but the documentary constantly showed scenes of the city. Cass Corridor is full of abandoned buildings owned by people outside of detroit, many are or were Macomb and Oakland county residents. Since Cass Corridor was so "prominent" in this documentary I hope another will be made about the missing black children from Detroit. Oakland County is not a suburb located within Detroit, it is a suburb of Detroit (Metro Detroit) which is outside the Detroit City limits. The residence of these suburbs have intentionally segregated themselves from Detroit and its residence, so why give the illusion of Oakland being Detroit to viewers who may not know any better. Probably should have shown shots of the Silverdome, Pine Knob, or how about anything north of 8 mile road. It's irritating and quite gross that the suburban communities always wants to be associated with the city ONLY when something bad happens. It's unfair to a city that was abandoned in the 1960's by a lot of theses suburbanites as well a made a "ghetto" by the suburbanite slum lords. Detroit is Wayne County!

The premise seemed interesting so I took on a chance on it because it was only two episodes. It turns out that even two episodes was too much, as about half the show is just repeating things they've already said a bunch of times. They also take the approach of declaring "this is who did it" and then switching to the next person, which makes the audience feel like they have been tricked. The better approach is "This is one of the suspects" and then go into detail. Also, the filmmaker seems determined to believe he was almost kidnapped by the killer when in fact all that happened was a guy may or may not have tried to abduct him and there's a very good chance it wasn't the killer. The worst aspect is the amount that the story jumps all over the place with the island of kids. It could have been the focus one time but instead the filmmaker brings it back up a dozen times. Really poor approach and execution.