Killer Cases

Its a good show, although if you are a crime show buff you have seen all of these cases before, but all of a sudden they forgot about Diversity. Strange how they chose to leave that out now when thats not what the statistics show. So if Diversity is done in all other shows and movies now, you have to do it here as well too. Works both ways.

Hi. I can't emphasize enough that Killer Cases is either "The Best" true crime TV series, or at least in the top 3. I live in Australia so apparently we down under are not as addicted to the True Crime genre as the American (mostly women) are. BUT I love them and since getting hooked I find I prefer watching and hearing real people rather than professional actors.

Killer Cases manages more than most other True Crime shows to present the 3 part stories exceptionally well. Then I love it when we get to see the suspects or certain persons of interest hauled into the Cop's Office for the interview which is one of my favourite parts. Finally we get to see the final Courtroom scenes as well, where we get treated to some excellent lawyers' presentations (mostly) and find out who the killer is. I watch a lot of these types of shows and would give this one a very high score of 8/10 because I could not stop watching it and can't wait for Season 7 to begin.

Every episode that I have seen is a case already profiled on CBS' 48 Hours. Why rehash the same cases that have already aired on another show and try to package it as something new? Brian Ross is a good reporter, but he's not Peter Thomas or Bill Kurtis. Those two can make even the most moribund cases seem compelling. Killer Cases is by no means the worst true crime show, but it's nowhere near the best, either. It does a good job of presenting actual recordings and footage from the cases. It also features a lot of newer cases, not ones from the 1970's and 1980's that have been discussed ad nauseam.

First off this show isn't exactly perfect but it is solid. Which is more than I can say for most other murder mystery documentaries. What I really appreciate about this series is that they never resort to using corny recreated cut scenes. Its all real footage. I strongly dislike how reliant other series are on this method and it ruins the experience for me.

The one thing I do dislike is how at the start of each episode theres a 1-2 minute summary given that in some cases incapsulates like half of what the entire episode is about and I get that those are supposed to catch peoples attention but I dislike that introduction method. (So I always skip the first 2 minutes.)

7/10

STOP USING CORNY RECREATED SCENES IN CRIME DOCUMENTARIES.

First of all, the diversity complaints are preposterous. Frankly I can't tell if they're doing satire or not. My problem is with the ongoing almost total absense of scientific evidence underscored in these cases. A & E can't help it if most people believe that interpretation of human reactions and body language is reasonable grounds for deciding guilt. They can help it if they choose to include that information as though it seals the deal. If you want to watch a show where the vast majority of cases are based on circumstantial evidence and unchallenged "mind reading" assertions from the people making important legal decisions, then this is the show for you.