it's no secret that i am painfully obsessed with true crime documentaries
at the moment i am loving the ones on netflix and the latest one that i
watched is called the confession killer which is actually a very popular story i
believe there's a film called henry portrait of a serial killer
which i haven't seen if you've seen it and you think it's worth watching let me
know but today this is a documentary series
and there are about five i think there are five episodes
and this is all about henry lee lucas who
well he is described on imdb as america's most prolific serial killer
amit admitting to hundreds of murders but as dna results contradict his
confessions will they expose the biggest criminal justice
hoax in us history so basically at the very beginning we find out that
henry lee lucas is about to go to jail for a murder and
just as he's about to be sentenced he suddenly confesses to
all these other murders and the reason he did this
well whether or not he did this for this reason we don't know but what happens as
a result of this is that he then becomes almost part of
the police force helping them to identify which murders
he had supposedly committed and basically
giving him a free pass he's still in jail he's still in prison
but he gets a lot more privileges um because he's helping solve these cold
cases but of course the whole point of the
documentary is that we know he is lying and it's how he managed to get away with
lying and convincing these learned experienced detectives that he
committed all of these murders and over the
five or so episodes each one's about an hour just under
we learn first of all how much how many lies
and how much of this hoax he managed to get away with and then
slowly we began to learn how he finally didn't get away with it
and it's it's quite a journey there's a lot of footage a lot
of footage from when he was initially arrested and helping with the case
the cases there are a lot of interviews with people involved
um interviews with the families who were affected by the
murders that he was supposed to have committed and
yeah as a documentary as a documentary series i think it works very well if it
just been a one-off for an hour or an hour and a half i think they
probably wouldn't have had enough time to explore everything that i
think they should have explored which they did
one problem is that it's a there's one i feel like there's one episode too many
the penultimate episode kind of dragged a
bit and while i can see the last episode was
necessary it took us full circle it gave us a
proper conclusion it was necessary but i feel like they
could have cut little bits out here and there to make it
one episode shorter but i watched it all and i still enjoyed it all
do i think henry lucas committed any of the murders
i don't really um he might have done some of them but by no means did he do
the hundreds that he was claiming to do he is dead he was
he he was buried on a in a very with a very simple grave and i'd like to visit
that grave i imagine the experience would be very unusual
it's great to see the texas rangers that's a lot of fun because usually
detective stories are set in very populous cities with modern
police forces this was a bit more of a traditional approach
and some people in the documentary have certain things to say about that but as
a spectator i i personally enjoyed it it's not the most gory there are you
know there are a lot of true crime documentaries that are very blood heavy
and very graphic but because these are murders
that were committed a long time ago and not
connected to henry lucas as far as we knew
there you don't get to see too many crime scene photos and things
howie has found out is very interesting i'd definitely say pay attention to that
because it's it's a really great story but definitely
watch this as i said a little bit long um according to imdb
the total length is 240 minutes which like two films so it's not it's
not horrifically bad i watched it over several settings
but you will watch the first episode and immediately have to watch the other one
it's it's very gripping henry lucas towards the end became
almost likeable because we get to see him in his older years and i think by
that point the bravado had gone i think he was very
remorseful i think he regretted pretty much
everything he'd done and yeah he will take you on an
emotional coaster let me know what you think of
lucas as a person definitely let me know what you think of
the documentary i say it's well worth watching