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I expected some concrete evidence to be presented, but there's not even any circumstantial evidence to suggest she was abducted.

The photo. A few years ago, someone gave me a magazine featuring a woman who could have been my twin sister. If I were missing, everyone would think it was me. I think we've all experienced something like that.

I found the eyewitness accounts hard to believe. I do believe they believe it themselves. The woman in the bar, for example, something similar could have happened, but I think memory can do strange things. Sometimes you see someone you think looks like someone you know, and the more you think back to that moment you saw them, the more you start to fill in the face of that familiar face. Ultimately, you feel like it was them. That also applies to things that were said.

I understand the suspicion that "Yellow" had something to do with Amy's disappearance, but the phone call with his daughter could also be interpreted as him being tired of being reminded of a bad situation, and especially that people, including his daughter, are suggesting he had something to do with it.

I seriously doubt the idea that Amy was taken away in a suitcase (what else?). I assume there are border controls there, and when you're on the island as a tourist or employee for just a day, you stand out quite a bit with a large suitcase. Even if someone is small, you need a big suitcase.

You don't voluntarily leave the cabin without your shoes. Forced entry is implausible, since the others were also sleeping there.

You don't get any answers or facts in this documentary. Was she kidnapped? No evidence. Did the neighbour have anything to do with it? (He mentioned looking at "girls," not "women," strangely enough). No evidence. Did she jump? No evidence. Did she fall? No evidence.

Suicide isn't out of the question. I know from experience how happy people can act while depressed. The ex-girlfriend mentioned that Amy's father had sent a three-page letter in which he made it very clear what he thought of their relationship and the fact that Amy was gay. She doesn't elaborate, but you can see and hear in her voice that it was a very nasty letter. The father then said something completely different in response, which was unbelievable.

Then there's the letter to the other ex. Even though it's a love letter, it comes across as very depressing.

I fear we'll never know what happened.

I do wonder: what if Amy did end up being trafficked? What would happen, or have happened, because of all that media attention and now even a documentary?

Those who are holding her captive don't want all that attention and probably can't use her anymore. They'd have to get rid of her...

All in all, a very sad event.

My heart goes out to Ajike's family and friends, especially her children. It's heartbreaking to see them hear that Mom isn't coming home.

I don't understand why gun laws in the US are the way they are. The "right" to protect yourself with lethal weapons leads to so many innocent victims, school shootings, and so on. In Europe, we watch this with open mouths.

The fact is, in countries where citizens are prohibited from owning guns, far fewer people die, and the chance that someone as crazy as the one in this documentary can get a gun is slim.

Good documentary. Beautifully put together with the camera footage. The officers deserve praise.

What I don't understand is why Kerri was angry with Stephen King for writing a story more or less based on BTK. According to her, he was reopening old wounds and exploiting the victims' families. Then Kerri herself went on TV to complain about it, wrote a book, went on social media, and now this documentary! The makers of this documentary even contacted the victims' families, which must have been very painful for them. But one sentence from King on a talk show is not done!?

I also don't understand why she complains so much about social media, about receiving threats, about people trying to contact her father through her, about people asking questions, etc. She could have chosen to live a quiet life, stay away from social media, not write a book, not appear on TV, not make a documentary. Then people would forget her.

I absolutely believe it's terrible for her that her father is a serial killer and that she's traumatized by it, but my heart goes out to the families of the victims first and foremost. They've lost a loved one violently and will never see them again.

I thought it was an ok documentary, but what I wrote above did irritate me.