Every once and a while, I will get a recommendation on my Netflix account for Hidden Gems, and every once and a while, an awesome movie or series will appear.
Here is a quick run down of some true crime hidden gem documentaries that cover interesting stories that might be overlooked because of the high-profile Menendez and Murdough cases.
Jailbreak - Love on the Run
This is a new release about a prison guard who has a secret affair with a prisoner and helps him escape. I kept thinking this is a situation where a codependent people-pleaser finally snaps and starts making reckless choices.
Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case
An international search for a British woman who disappears in Japan, leading detectives to a man who preys on women coming to Japan for a better life. I am always intrigued by how investigations unfold in other countries and this doc was full of conversations with the Japanese detectives on the case.
Hell Camp: Teen Nightmare
There are several documentaries available to watch about the Troubled Teen industry, and this one focused on the wilderness experience, which is essentially marching kids through the desert and not feeding them.
Worst Roommate Ever
To be honest, I think season one is better than season two. Also, I learned a lot about squatter’s rights and how difficult it is to evict someone, especially if they are monsters who are as well-versed on the law as they are negligent in paying their rent.
Till Murder Do Us Part: Soering vs. Haysom
This documentary gave me some serious early 80s vibes. Boarding school kids may or may not have conspired to kill a young woman’s parents outside of DC over 30 years ago and the more they try to get past their past, their past will not let them go.
Missing: Dead or Alive
This is more of a mini-series about officers in a South Carolina missing person’s department. It was filmed during COVID, so you can see officers in masks and social distance church services. This is also a series where people are found alive and they just don’t want to deal with their family or needed some space and the officers encourage them to go home.
Killer Sally
There are many things I did not know about the competitive body building world until I watched this documentary. This is a story of domestic violence, and it’s a complicated one, because how can someone so “tough” find themselves in a controlling relationship while others who knew the victim insist that Sally was the aggressor.
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