Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer

The Torso killer, a man that terrorised sex workers in Time Square back in the 1970's, this three part series tells the story, providing details about the crimes, victims, killer and the famous place itself.

It's a very well produced documentary series, very well edited and put together, with some fascinating footage, and amazing, insightful interviews.

It could perhaps have been done in two parts, it did lag a little in the middle, but the opener and conclusion were both very watchable.

It doesn't shy away, it's very detailed, and gives you some pretty gruesome information.

Cotingham, one very disturbed man, hard to believe how long he got away with his crimes for.

Interesting, 7/10.

Much like the Cecil Hotel series from the same show this version spends way to long explaing things that are interesting, but not necessarily relevant to the story. I lost count oglf hiw many times we were told that Times Square was a sexual wasteland where whatever happened to whoever. We get it, it's relevant but not for 2/3 of your runtime. At least unlike the Cecil episode this one doesn't rely on YouTube bloggers.

This documentary was more about Times Square and the sex work industry than the actual murders. I understand that it was important to include how things were back then but this should've been shorter if they had more filler info than things about the crimes. It would've been more suitable the doc was movie length instead of three separate episodes. But all in all I would recommend giving it a watch and hopefully it'll help identify the Jane Does so they can get the justice/recognition they deserve.

A wild story of the torso killing and how the atmosphere of New York in the 70s contributed to his prolific reign of terror. However, much of the introspection was on the sex worker atmosphere and not on the investigations and catching of the killer.

Could have been a very interesting documentary if it was 2 hours long. But as usual they had to stretch into 3 episodes. Very tired of shows on Netflix that are stretched out and turn repetitious and boring.