Top billed cast

1. 

   Tim Miller

   Self - Father of Laura Miller

2. 

   Gay Smither

   Self - Mother of Laura Smither

3. 

   Nina Edwards

   Self - Niece of Heide Fye Marla

4. 

   Lise Olsen

   Self - Investigative Journalist

5. 

   Richard Rennison

   Self - Supervisory Senior Resident Agent, FBI

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Current Season

Season 1

2022 | 3 Episodes

Reviews

A review by Peter McGinn

Written by Peter McGinn on 2023-03-03

Another Netflix original true crime miniseries. Like the one about the Murdaugh family, this one spotlights a scandal, but here it is not scandals of a powerful family, but the drawn-out decades-long scandal of small-town police departments that frankly are not very good at solving murders. Not through corruption but from lack of imagination and effort.

This follows the families of victims more than the authorities, which ios peopper as they were ahead of the latter for most of the investigations. One fact sticks with me: the over 2000 sex offenders that they found living in this fairly low...read the rest

Recommendations

1. Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes77%
2. Sophie: A Murder in West Cork64%
3. Trust Me: The False Prophet75%
4. Killer Sally67%
5. Catching Killers67%
6. Homicide Hunter: Lt Joe Kenda89%
7. I AM A KILLER68%
8. Homicide71%
9. Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter78%
10. Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey73%
11. Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story67%
12. The Pharmacist73%
13. Lorena66%
14. Dateline65%
15. Cold Justice75%
16. The Jinx79%
17. Cold Case Files78%
18. The Confession Killer71%
19. See No Evil80%
20. The Diamond Heist66%

Status
Ended

Original Language
English

Original Name
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields

Keywords

• miniseries
• true crime