EPISODE
The Confession Killer - Season 1
This documentary follows the crimes of Henry Lee Lucas, a famous and dangerous serial killer, who committed hundreds of murders across America, the thing that challenges the authority and leads to many unsolved murders, as he confesses to commit them all, ready to face his fate and his trial.
6 July 1946, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
August 23, 1936 in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
31 October 1950, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
August 2, 1931 in Clarksburg, West Virginia, USA
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 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.
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 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
The Confession Killer has an interesting enough topic to hold a viewer's interest.
