Forget about any intrigue in this documentary style The Serial Killers such as the value Bill Kurtis always added to the Cold Case Files television series from 1979-2017. What you get are the cold hard facts from the mouths of the serial killers themselves and delivered in more of a clinical documentary style.
I found the periodic sound throughout the series of the typing on a computer keyboard to introduce some related text such as the following text "Jack Blake went missing on 7th May 1972" very irritating. Along with the keyboard typing sound it was usually accompanied by a musical jazz and piano piece which was even more irritating as the sound of the jazz music increased the audio volume by about 20 percent and then the audio volume would go back down to normal.
The series benefit was that it did a great job of just relaying the facts and not sensationalizing any of these serial killers murders with any gruesome crime scene visuals. What I would have preferred though was to hear more from the actual detectives who worked each of these serial killer murders to successfully find the serial killers guilty in a court of law.
Obviously each of these serial killers are not normal peace loving human beings and family oriented. Instead, they each describe some of their early childhood experiences as being abnormal childhoods which eventually would lead them on a path of heinous crimes resulting in a string of murders.
This documentary series focuses more or less on the factual events of the serial killers early childhood, through to their series of murders and followed by some cold calculated explanations by each of the serial killers not why they did it but "how" they committed their murders. Throughout this documentary series we hear the recounted stories by people directly associated and/or harmed by each of the serial killers as well as the opinions of the various judges, prosecutors, forensic scientists, detectives and psychologists.
Overall I give the series a respectable 7 out of 10 rating
I found the periodic sound throughout the series of the typing on a computer keyboard to introduce some related text such as the following text "Jack Blake went missing on 7th May 1972" very irritating. Along with the keyboard typing sound it was usually accompanied by a musical jazz and piano piece which was even more irritating as the sound of the jazz music increased the audio volume by about 20 percent and then the audio volume would go back down to normal.
The series benefit was that it did a great job of just relaying the facts and not sensationalizing any of these serial killers murders with any gruesome crime scene visuals. What I would have preferred though was to hear more from the actual detectives who worked each of these serial killer murders to successfully find the serial killers guilty in a court of law.
Obviously each of these serial killers are not normal peace loving human beings and family oriented. Instead, they each describe some of their early childhood experiences as being abnormal childhoods which eventually would lead them on a path of heinous crimes resulting in a string of murders.
This documentary series focuses more or less on the factual events of the serial killers early childhood, through to their series of murders and followed by some cold calculated explanations by each of the serial killers not why they did it but "how" they committed their murders. Throughout this documentary series we hear the recounted stories by people directly associated and/or harmed by each of the serial killers as well as the opinions of the various judges, prosecutors, forensic scientists, detectives and psychologists.
Overall I give the series a respectable 7 out of 10 rating
