Has anyone seen it. Thoughts on the show and the case?

I enjoyed it. Good true crime feel and a sad story of a death. Good October vibes.

I feel like some documentaries are harder to watch than horror movies because you know the events actually happened.
What’s one documentary that genuinely made your blood boil and what was so upsetting about it?

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• The Monster Next Door: Charles Cullen appeared to be a mild-mannered, quiet, and dedicated ICU nurse. To patients and families, he was a trusted caregiver. Behind closed doors, he was one of the most prolific serial killers in American history.

• The Method: Cullen systematically crept into hospital rooms and secretly injected lethal doses of medications—such as digoxin and insulin—directly into intravenous (IV) bags and medication lines. Patients under routine care would suddenly crash, experience heart failure, and die while the staff scrambled to save them.

• The Institutional Cover-Up: When managers and fellow nurses noticed suspicious spikes in patient deaths or medication shortages connected to Cullen, hospitals routinely chose to protect their own reputations. Instead of calling the police, they quietly forced him to resign or gave him neutral recommendations, allowing him to simply walk into a new hospital job and start over.

• The Inside Investigation: Cullen's horrific 16-year reign only ended in December 2003 while he was working at Somerset Medical Center in New Jersey. A fellow ICU nurse named Amy Loughren grew deeply suspicious of the sudden deaths and worked closely with detectives, wearing a wire to gather the evidence needed to finally put him away.

The Aftermath

• The Body Count: Cullen confessed to murdering dozens of patients, though investigators believe his actual number of victims could be as high as 400.

• The Sentence: He was convicted of multiple counts of murder and is currently serving multiple consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole for centuries. His case forced sweeping healthcare reforms, including the New Jersey Patient Safety Act of 2004 to force mandatory reporting of suspicious medical deaths.

I am 100% sure my neighbor is a serial killer and I’m afraid for my life

I don’t think I’ve ever watched a documentary that left me feeling this heartbroken and angry. Gabriel was just a child who deserved love, safety and protection.

Beyond the horrific abuse itself, I find the failures of the adults and institutions around him incredibly difficult to comprehend.

For those who’ve watched it, what part of the documentary has stayed with you the most?

The man in the photo is Andrei Chikatilo (aka the Forest Strip Killer, and Rostov Ripper). He was a serial killer from the Soviet Union that targeted young boys and girls aged between 7 and 18. Chikatilo would find his victims in places that weren’t too busy. He would then lure them to desolate places, rape them, and kill them. He would hide their bodies in places that took ages to find. Chikatilo’s killing spree ran from 1978 until his arrest in 1990. He was convicted of the murder of around 52 people, although he claimed to have killed more than 56. In 1992, Chikatilo would be sentenced to death by firing squad, with the execution happening two years later.

Believe it or not, the police once tried Chikatilo in 1984, but because of a lack of checking DNA samples, he was free to kill more. (Feel free to correct anything I might have missed).

💬 Which of these true crime documentaries shocked you the most or left the deepest impression? Do you have your own favorite series that’s missing from this list? Let me know in the comments!

In 2010, two young siblings, three-year-old Sakurako Hagi and her younger brother Kaede, were left alone in an apartment in Osaka, Japan, by their mother, Sanae Shimomura.
Before their deaths, neighbors had repeatedly reported hearing children crying from the apartment. Child welfare workers visited the building five times, but none of those visits resulted in anyone confirming the children’s safety.
On July 30, 2010, both children were found dead. Their mother was later convicted of murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
What makes this case especially troubling is that the warnings came before the tragedy. People had raised concerns, yet the children remained unseen.
An official review later identified serious weaknesses in how the authorities responded to those warnings.
This documentary examines the full case, from the early warning signs to the investigation, trial, and child welfare failures.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/S7TUJL9Avfg

Do you think welfare authorities should have taken stronger action after repeatedly failing to confirm the children’s safety?

I’m talking about a documentary that genuinely made you question something you believed for years. Whether it was about crime, psychology, relationships, corruption or society.
Which one stayed with you long after you finished watching it and why?

On July 24, 2016, 23-year-old Kaylee Sawyer disappeared after a night out in Bend, Oregon. What began as a desperate search for a missing young woman quickly uncovered a chilling reality: her attacker was Edwin Lara, an armed campus security guard at Central Oregon Community College (COCC) who was supposed to keep students safe.

Most people watch true crime to understand what happened and why. But there is a small, violent fringe of the online true crime world, usually called the TCC, that treats school attackers as idols: fan edits, copying their clothes and poses, and celebrating each new attack.

Between October 7 and 19, seven attacks hit schools in Poland, France, South Africa, the US and Romania. Four of the attackers had clear ties to that fringe. A 13-year-old in Romania left a manifesto addressed to "the TCC," crediting the community's support for a Swedish school attacker in August with restoring his "hopes." In France, prosecutors are now treating one attack as terrorism because of the shooter's TCC links, a first.

I wrote up the cases and the evidence for each link here: https://redpillreversal.substack.com/p/a-wave-of-school-attacks-and-the