The first 20 minutes are dedicated to victim-blaming: justifying a killing by calling the victim an abuser. Certainly the killer had been seen to be bruised in the past but if this resulted from such abuse the producers failed to mention any evidence of this beyond the killer's own word. This is especially troubling since we know the killer had repeatedly lied about the victim to family, friends and the court.
If the premise of a programme is that a killing is justified (a strange premise for a programme with "murder" in the title, by the way), its makers are surely beholden to us to demonstrate this using more than the killer's say-so. The wait for some justification of their position, a justification which would never come, very much diminished the telling of this tale.
If the premise of a programme is that a killing is justified (a strange premise for a programme with "murder" in the title, by the way), its makers are surely beholden to us to demonstrate this using more than the killer's say-so. The wait for some justification of their position, a justification which would never come, very much diminished the telling of this tale.