EPISODE
The Confession Killer - Season 1
A documentary series centers around the story of Henry Lee Lucas, a well known and cunning serial killer in America, who committed several killings crosswise over America, what challenges the authority and leads to numerous unsolved homicides, as he admits to submit them all, ready to confront his destiny and his preliminary.
6 July 1946, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
31 October 1950, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
December 06, 2019
The Confession Killer has an interesting enough topic to hold a viewer's interest.
December 05, 2019
Netflix has quite the algorithmic hit with this series: it's like Mindhunter and The Confession Tapes more obviously, but it's also like Stranger Things.
December 06, 2019
Lucas' story is a testament to the disaster that can follow when police seek easy answers, in this case taking the claims of a conman as a quick way out of stalled detective work.
December 05, 2019
What makes the Lucas case special -- and gives such heft to this five-part documentary by Robert Kenner and Taki Oldham -- is not just how the killer played the system, but how willingly, even insistently, the system played along.
December 02, 2019
[It] isn't just about a charlatan and cops collaborating in a you-scratch-my-back, I'll-scratch-yours scheme-it's about the ugliness of individuals, and systems, prioritizing their own interests ahead of the public good.
December 03, 2019
It's well-constructed and a quick watch.
