City of Angels, City of Death

I avoided watching this initially because I was already so familiar with the different serial killers & crimes that this series covers. I'm happy that I finally took the time to watch because it was a truly intriguing & different take than anything I had ever watched before about the era of the 70's & 80's LA serial killers. They give examples of how a lot of these crimes crossed paths due to the fact that the same police were investigating all of these infamous criminals at the same time. The firsthand accounts from the police are emotional & raw, really giving you a feel for what it was like to investigate all of those coinciding crimes & live through that insanity. Overall it was a great series & I highly recommend it to anyone that enjoys true crime.

The first homicide detectives working on the mind boggling serial killer cases that manifested in the 1970s in LA should get the Congressional Medal of Honor. These men are true heroes. They solved the cases and caught the bad guys with a note pad and a pencil, teamwork and sheer determination. The 1970s LA was a perfect storm for serial killers. Women finally had freedom in society and a lot of sick men didn't like that fact and set out to punish them in the most brutal and sadistic way possible. Their deficiencies became the mechanism. Society was not sick, they were.

It is fascinating seeing and hearing how the detectives worked, gathered evidence and left no stone unturned. Quick thinking saved the lucky few from being victims. One reviewer said this was a "fun" series to watch which is horrifying. What I especially appreciated in the series was that we were given the information on the cases but not in a sensational way. Victims were blurred and nothing was gratuitously graphic. The recreation of scenes was also well done.

I think women especially are drawn to true crime documentary as a way to gain knowledge to protect ourselves from danger. The contestant on the dating game that got terrible vibes when she met the bachelor she picked on "The Dating Game" who turned out to be a notorious serial killer was so lucky and unbelievably insightful. She listened to her instincts and possibly saved her life. That was chilling.

I grew up in the 1960s and remember well how terrified everyone was during the Boston Strangler's reign of terror. It is reputed that the "hillside strangler" lived for a time in the Boston area during those years. I recommend this series.

If you are in to true crime this is a fantastically produced documentary. They don't repeat the same stuff over and over like the cable crime shows. The actual detectives who investigated the crime are in this production. And some well known faces to the true crime community are here (Paul Holes and Matt Murphy). It's so nice to see Matt since I live in Orange County where Matt was a prosecutor and the recent host at Crime Com awards.

As usual, I'm reminded about how much I absolutely hate the media, this series does not provide any exception to that sentiment. They are a bunch of vultures that care more about a story than respecting an investigation. If they are exceptions it just proves the rule.

I'm a huge true crime viewer and although I knew a lot about this time period, the city, and the serial killers it was still so fun to watch. It was also nice to see the same detectives who helped solve these crimes talk about it. Highly recommend.

You choose a time and a place. Then you conduct an investigation of all the major serial killers that choose that time and that place to do all of their crimes. This is an amazing chronological investigation of L. A. most notorious serial killers.