The Hunt for the Chicago Strangler

Pointing out the insane number of predominantly black women being strangled and dumped in Chicago this documentary does not spectacularly end with one serial killer behind bars but illuminates:

• the reasons for these parts of the city having become a "hunting/dumping" ground
• the Murder Accountability Project - a database to find clusters and offer an opportunity to spot similarities between homicides - ( I didn't know about it and was instantly super excited. I can only pray & hope the EU can find 2 active braincells to instigate such a project for Europe).

• the refusal of people in charge (police, politics?) to take the whole subject matter seriously (for example: Mr Hargrove having contacted Gary, Indiana police because of a pattern he saw before serial killer Vann was caught. Police dismissed him. Police giving false information when asked if they'd communicated with Hammond police regarding Vann's victims.)
• some of the victims, their lives & their loved ones
• and the people trying to do something

No empty talk, no empty visuals - (no re enactments thank God)

I am excessively watching crime related stuff ( - anything crime/psychology/forensic: I want it - if it's not distorted by a. Re enactments for dramatisation or b. Commentary by unrelated, unqualified people for filler purposes) and I am telling you: Seriously! Watch it!

It's educative, respectful, moving & inspiring.

PS: Please don't listen to reviewers feeling personally attacked by people who try to instigate dialogues underlining flaws in the 'system'. A system upheld by humans - a system that can also be changed by humans.

Very good in bringing awareness to how black women do not get the attention they deserve when missing and/or murdered. This case should have had a task force a long time ago.

True crime is something we enjoy watching in our home, but this program has very little to do with the investigation and really doesn't focus on the women who lost their lives. Instead, it's just a lot of people bellyaching about how the whole world is against them. Who are the real victims here?? What a disgrace.

I've never in my life wanted a documentary, if we could call it that, to be over and done with. The bias towards police and political wining is such an annoying theme throughout that it misses the entire point. The "but what about white people...." nonsense was so 2019 and needs to stay there. If they had focused on the actual crimes then maybe they could of helped these women victims but here we are.

Hopefully this series will bring more awareness to this serial killer and potentially finally catch the murderer. Chicago Police have refused to investigate anything regarding dead hookers stuffed in garbage cans for over 20 years. Their personal moral judgments should not dictate the murder investigations they pursue or not. Even though sex work yes is illegal, those people deserve their day in court for that crime, instead of being executed, while the police seem to look the other way for over 20 years.

An earlier opinion expressed in the comments section here, basically insinuated these people deserved it. Sounds like a Chicago PD officer or one of their boot licking relatives that left that review. Which further proves the point why this documentary was needed so badly, because the police do nothing.

The police are so wrapped up in being a cop as their identity, as soon as any criticism for their poor work is thrown their way they take it as a personal character assassination, like children do.

They definitely have a DNA sample and they could have matched up by now if they put forth ANY effort. The killer was most likely in jail from 2014 to 2017. When anyone is arrested they take fingerprints, pictures and a DNA sample.

The Chicago police are basically lazy and have not put forth and iota of effort to catch this serial killer.