Murder in the Bayou

This is a sad and compelling story more about corruption in a small southern town than a murder mystery. Almost completely comprised of interviews with locals and mothers of the victims who repeat the same things again and again it just gets old after awhile.

This would have been more powerful presented in a two hour film rather than a five hour series.

I saw the 6.8 rating and was so stunned at the low rating that I thought I'd do what I could to help the show and add my two cent.. I'll start by saying that I only started watching the show because I couldn't find anything else on and was looking for an hour to kill but after the first episode I was so hooked I needed to know more so I ended up watching the following three episodes.. I also see that the former sheriffs family member must've wrote a review because they rated it a 1/10 and said it "lacking of solid, critical thinking or the hard, neutral questioning that good investigations put forward" and called into question the credibility of the witnesses which is crazy because the people who were put in charge of protecting the people of Jenning's seemed way more crooked than any witnesses/suspects in the docuseries and the relationships that these deputies had with their "informants" were borderline criminal activities and that's not even mentioning the alleged drug use by members of the JPD or the "mishandling" of evidence by its members.. I'm soooo glad I watched the series because one thing I learned besides being born on the wrong side of the tracks isn't just a saying where I live I also learned that if I ever need to go to Houston I'll be sure to take the long way around and stay off the I-10 through Jennings, La.

This no question was a tragedy. Very sad for every family involved. But my review is on the documentary alone. It was good but crikey it was way too long and too repetitive. How many times can you tell us the exact same thing? We get it and got it the first 3 times you told us. They could have done this in 2, maybe 3 at most episodes. 5 hours was way too long for this thing and it could have easily been done in half the time. Is it worth watching??? Yes it's worth watching if you like the slow burn documentary. But by the time it's over you will be saying the same thing as me. Good but too stinking long...

Interesting and sad true story but very slow and a little scattered in my opinion. Kind of takes a long loop to get to each detail. Also repeats same info. Just wish it had been produced better.

What a tragic story - 8 unsolved murders whose investigation was epically bungled by this small town's stereotypical hillbilly police department. The families of these women have had to live with not knowing the truth about how and why their loved ones died. The level of sheer incompetence of law enforcement in this town would be amusing if there weren't real people suffering because of it. Bring in some outside investigators, the homegrown yahoo cops aren't capable of getting the job done.