PrimeWire

A well-made documentary with some of the worst contributors I’ve ever seen. It starts well with experts, law enforcement professionals, people working within the community, and others with firsthand knowledge of the factors in play.
And then they start talking to “YouTubers.” (Note: the longer this goes on, the more I want to scream.)
There is a LOT of time paid to people who have no education in criminal investigation, no knowledge of mental illness and its effects, and no experience with the city and setting of the crime. You get to see at least a dozen people go on and on about how “something else must have been going on” or “someone must know.” Investigators are working in their dozens, one day with 50 detectives at the Cecil Hotel at once, and people online complaining that it’s “taking too long” and therefore hotel staff and cops must be “in on it.” They find and harass a Swedish black metal musician whose work had “too many similarities” with this crime, and he wasn’t even in the country at the time.
I’m most of the way through the fourth and final episode, but if I hear one more person say “the report came out but it just didn’t seem right” or “feel right”…if anyone justifies their position with “I’ve spent hours on this”…or if anyone, when speaking of a young woman with BPD-1 who was (as evidence has backed up) off her meds says that her actions “don’t make sense” (HEAVY SIGH)…or any other line of uninformed web-babble, I’m going to turn this off and never come back to finish it.