I Am Not a Monster: The Lois Riess Murders

For the first 30 mins it goes into mundane details about fishing... in fact everything about this doc is mundane aside from the actual murder which doesnt even get talked about. 14 mins to the end and you will still have no idea how the guy was murdered.

People that dont know why she murdered her husband get asked why she murdered her husband. Like why? You are interviewing the murderer, just ask her.

Anyway, murdering someone doesnt make you worthy of a documentary. This was boring, uninteresting and not worth anyone's time. The whole thing could have been 20 mins and still they wouldnt have enough material to make it substantial.

Can I have those 3 hours of my life back?!?? To sum up the series, mental health issues can run in families. Seek help. If you see signs in your family members get them help! No mystery or suspense in this series. Followed by horrible interviews by bar tenders, sheriffs, friends, and other law enforcement. Failures by law enforcement lead to the second death. Seriously a waste of time. Why they allowed her to enter a plea bargain to stay close to her kids and grandkids is beyond me. She should have gotten the death penalty in Florida. Save yourself and go find a different documentary to watch.

I hadn't heard of this story and I found it piqued my interest. I watch a lot of true crime documentaries and this the first I felt obligated to comment on. I was so thankful for the directors/ producers for not showing the same repetitive scenes. I was glad to hear the different perspectives of the friends and family. I think they did a great job of telling this womans story. I think the length was just right and kept me interested and wanting to hear more. Most already know how it ends, so getting to hear how she got there without so much repetition, like others I've watched, made it more enjoyable. As a viewer I appreciated that alot!

We're sort of programmed at this point to expect these murder / crime documentaries to have twists. There aren't really any twists in this story. It's a pretty straight forward story of a lady who slowly ruined her own life through her own actions and then just as things were looking like she'd be hitting rock bottom she took it all to another level and started murdering people. I think the documentary does a good job of covering as much of the story as neutrally as possible which is rare these days. Most documentaries have an agenda and lean way into it. They do a good job of saying her side and everyone else's side. In the end she probably deserved the death penalty. The lady sucked the money out of every person she could and when that ended she murdered them and moved onto the next. Now she's sucking money out of society and it should end there.

I had hoped this documentary was really going to dive into Lois and why she did what she did in her own words. The documentary really set us up for feeling this way when we see Lois cry saying she wasn't sure she should do this interview. As if there was going to be a big reveal.

Unfortunately it was a total bore fest. Just a lot of fluff to fill in a roughly 3 hour interview. It was 97% reflections from friends and family and 2% Lois actually speaking about her situation and crimes. The interviewer really asked softball questions and didn't press her AT ALL on her evasive answers. I think I agree with Lois that maybe she shouldn't have done this documentary. It seemed like she did it for pity but it left me disliking her even more. To say you don't remember what happened is nonsense. I think the interviewer didn't want to rock the boat with asking the tougher questions we all want answered and risk her leaving the room.