The presentation of this particular story is told in a back and forth manner that does a great job in the area of explanation, but massively overdoes it with unnecessary camera shots that do nothing but add length to the documentary. While most of the exposition in the interviews is important to understanding what was happening, there is still much that is again unnecessary, and prompts a viewer to lose interest.
What is treated as the highlight of this story is the sheer amount of taped confessions from the killer and his sister, yet it turns out to be the worst part due to being almost completely inaudible. If the filmmakers had isolated the audio of the interview tapes, we could probably understand it. Instead, we hear it with loud tape hiss, and is edited together with a music score, then combined with various sound effects. This of course makes it impossible to understand what is being said in these interviews, thus losing any possible dramatic effect they were trying for in the telling of this story, and causes the viewer to again lose interest. The simple addition of subtitles to those sections would do a lot to fix this overlong film.
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