I've been pretty honest about this,
my favorite thing to watch
on TV at night
true crime documentaries.
I'm not the only one they're very popular,
but through this whole long year of quarantine
I've noticed something,
a lot of these popular true crime documentaries,
they're really, really long, right?
They come in many, many, many, many many parts
and you watch them and then you realize
they didn't shed any new light on an old crime.
And so I've been getting disappointed
and even though I was excited to hear
that Netflix has another true crime series coming out,
I watched the trailer for it,
I'm sorry, I'm skeptical.
Check it out.
(ticking)
[Narrator] Some murders are never solved.
(ticking)
This is not one of them
or is it
We'll let you be the judge of that
in this investigative documentary series
about a grizzly string of crimes in the 1970s
infamously known as the open and shut murders.
True crime experts called it a homicide detectives dream
and a lot of paperwork, sure,
but pretty unremarkable in every other way, murder-wise.
But, what did they miss?
We'll keep digging until every theory is debunked,
every shred of evidence is unearthed
and every piece of stock footage is exhausted,
even ones that don't make a lot of sense.
You'll see the same old photos several times,
but shot in different ways
because we came up a little short on archival material,
Hear from experts.
I didn't work that case
[Narrator] Then hear from non-experts.
Did anyone stop to consider
that maybe these people were killed by a Dracula
or hear me out, Draculas.
[Narrator] Then hear from more experts,
but ones that are not especially relevant to this subject
When we were doing Tusk for Fleetwood Mac,
Mick had me record and making all kinds of crazy drum sound.
Just banging on floor times, Kleenex boxes.
At one point he was holding up a lamb chop
and hitting it with a spatula.
(laughing)
Anyway,
sorry about your murders.
[Narrator] Killing time:
the easily solved mystery of the open and shut murders,
a two hour film stretched out across 16 one hour episodes.