Culpability is an interesting aspect of the legal system. When a crime is committed and two people are involved how can you separate one person's guilt from another? This documentary series is another and a long line of attempts to present horrifying crimes that end up somewhat glamorizing the perpetrators of those crimes. In this particular case a woman and her husband go on a murder spree in France and Belgium. One of the potential victims escapes and she is able to identify her attackers and they both shortly are arrested thereafter. The question though is the man wholly responsible for his crimes or was he like some kind of Beast fed encouraged and manipulated by an evil woman. I don't think that the woman in this case is necessarily innocent. He clearly outlined what he wanted to do in his life horrifying crimes before they ever met and she was quite okay with that. So that suggests there is a degree of culpability there. However, the whole tone of this series shifts after it is revealed that she took some IQ test and she scored in the top percentage of french people. And her husband took the same IQ test and he was in the bottom percentage of people. Then the narrative becomes that she is some sort of master manipulator and she is the one who is really guilty for these crimes that they both committed. But showing the IQ test at least the examples that were shown in the documentary reveals absolutely no connection to the crimes or the topic at hand. It is possible for someone who is intelligent to be abused and emotionally abused and to be a victim as well. Not to say that she as I said before is completely Innocent but I doubt that she is a master manipulator when he was the one who murdered and did other horrible things to his victims. It's probably not worth your time watching this.
Review of Monique Olivier: Accessory to Evil
