The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith

If I ever hear one more Leaf come at the US again about our legal system, this is getting tossed in their smug face.

This poor guy is mentally deficient, was duped by unscrupulous officers with ridiculous behavior and tactics that would make the most insidious mob bosses squirm, but they're willing to stand by this insane practice as being legitimate?

Between this, the wife's friend who somehow knows how to coax confessions (she should be imprisoned), the family that somehow cannot fathom innocent people confessing (although it's hard to be too angry with her family, but still, this is now well documented fact that innocent people have and will confess given certain circumstances) the lead investigator with about as much of a moral compass as a sea squid, and the idiot himself WHO WAS TOLD BY HIS ATTORNEYS TO TRUST NO ONE, and it's a catastrophic failure of jurisprudence of epic proportions.

I'd say their best bet and most likely suspect is the husband, and more emphasis should have been placed there- this simple minded guy IS NOT the killer, and all of these officers should be reprimanded and forced to admit their incompetence. But given that this is occurring under one of the most inept PMs I've ever seen, it's certainly no surprise.

This could have been a single episode, two at most. Four was far too drawn out and labored for effect.

... the sound design is SO IRRITATING and distracting. I'm in the film industry and I would have sent this back. It lacks mature choices.

This is a documentary not an episode of CSI. These are real people and a viewer knows when to feel and what to feel. We don't need a sound track that competes. We need to hear the PEOPLE and the INFORMATION.

I had to mute the sound to just get through it after a point. Beverly Lynn Smith, RIP.

Were the suspects ever tested for gunshot residue? Nothing was ever mentioned about anyone involved being tested. I hate to say , "I saw them do it on a TV crime show..." but I am just wondering if this would not be one of the first protocols alongside interviewing people as a way to rule them out.

You will understand that a Cop that thinks you did a crime will do just about anything ( even illegal actions) to prove you guilty. This was an egregious case and I've been in front of a multitude of Narcissist Cops who believe they should be worshipped as ABOVE EVERYTHING. I'm a reformed former criminal and I know my fair share of how the dark side goes, how things are done.. Why things are done.. Why cops go Dirty.. how law enforcement are flipped.. Outlaw bike clubs have been flipping Cops and Prison guards for as long as there have been cops and prison guards... If I were to add my own view on this case as opinion only.. When your dealing drugs, and you don't connect any way with any organized group.. your going to get hurt.. drug dealers don't want competition they want expansion and sales.. Selling anything is still about Hierarchy... if Doug didn't have permission it may be under the radar for some time, but eventually he'd get big enough to get noticed. Probably warned.. and then probably dealt with. So my direction would be to look into the bigger dealers in the area, and who they work for... that's where I would look. Doug might even know, but is too scared to say anything. The "Mister Big" stings are flawed... the flaw is most of these are ordinary citizens put into extraordinary situations.. they will say something only because this might have been the only crime they've been in contact with in their lives... so it ends up being the first thing they bring up when they're looking for "DIRT" It's so egregious that most countries WONT ALLOW IT... how about you? Tell the truth OPP Durham police botched the criminal investigation in this case and you didn't have any way of fixing it besides trying to frame a man that you knew didn't do it.

I had no idea this happened in my neck of the woods. It's an important story. "Mr. Big" is very controversial here in Canada. I've interacted with police over the years in a work capacity, and I don't really like them. Policing needs to change. There remains an aura of "we will have our way".

The series could have been done perfectly in two episodes ..there was so much repetition. The set "scenes" were ridiculous, shabby retro, lampshades tilted, etc. Not necessary. The panning in and out of objects was really annoying. The last episode of the series is the best.

Overall this needed to be told.