Video Reviews

Investigation Discovery has a new true crime show, Dark Minds. In it, true crime author M. William Phelps looks at cold cases with criminal profiler John Kelly and an unnamed convicted serial killer they call “13”. I missed the first episode, but the second episode premiered last Wednesday evening. It…

Last Friday’s episode of Twisted on Investigation Discovery profiled David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam. I recorded it on the DVR, and Mrs. SK Podcast and I watched it last night. Like the episode on Donald Gaskins, I thought this episode lacked detail. Perhaps it would be interesting for someone…

Mrs. SK Podcast and I continued our seeming marathon of true crime television last night. This time, it was an episode of Twisted called “The Meanest Man in America” (which we actually recorded Friday night). This episode profiled Donald Gaskins, who terrorized South Carolina in the 1970’s. To be honest,…

Right after Friday’s show on Alexander Pichushkin, Mrs. SK Podcast and I watched an episode of Cold Case Files on Coral Watts, the Sunday Morning Slasher. Watts was convicted of sexual assault in the Detroit area in 1969 as a minor. He spent a few months in a mental health…

Mrs. SK Podcast and I switched to to AT&T U-verse recently, and it seems we have something like six true crime stations now. That’s a good thing; what else am I supposed to do on a Friday evening? This last Friday, we watched a couple of true crime shows. The…

The second and concluding episode of Appropriate Adult aired yesterday evening in the United Kingdom. While I’m not seeing too many reviews yet, it appears that Ceri Radford of The Telegraph liked the show. She recaps the story of Fred West, which most regulars to this site and podcast already…

The Devil You Know is a new series from Investigation Discovery the focuses on the betrayal suffered by the loved ones of murderers. As a half-hour show, the ability to provide much detail is limited. “In Bed with the Devil” is the fifth episode, and it focuses on Gary Ridgway,…

48 Hours aired their heavily promoted “Long Island Serial Killer” episode last night, and it didn’t disappoint. They gave one of the more succinct descriptions of Shannan Gilbert’s activities the night of her disappearance. In a nutshell: Shannan Gilbert, a prostitute who advertised on Craigslist, went to a john’s house…

One of the countless true crime shows on TruTV is “Unusual Suspects”. It’s fairly straight-forward, without the hype and superlatives you find on some of these shows. I’d not actually seen the show before, but the schtick is just what the show name says: suspects you would not expect. The…

I have a theory: if a true crime show has the host’s name in the title, it’s not going to be that great. And True Crime with Aphrodite Jones proves that theory correct. She spends way too much time talking about how the story makes her feel, and she has…