Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields

"I hadn't ever heard of these cases before, and I liked how they split the doc into 3 episodes so that each case could be talked through. The only bad part was that there were so many I couldnt remember who was which case. I really appreciated that the focus felt stronger on the victims and their families trying to get justice, rather than the one who tore their lives apart."

"Scary. Scarier than a horror movie….because it’s real. "

"Very good limited series. I lived in League City and Friendswood, in various spots over a 10 year period, starting in the early 2000s. And, in all that time, the killing fields was something mentioned to me maybe once. It just wasn’t on the radar of the people I knew. I will say, when I lived there, both areas were growing, had big school systems, lots of neighborhood developments, and commercial/retail popping up. So, it wasn’t like a small town feel where people seemed to know each other… a lot of new people were moving to the area. I worked in Galveston and made the drive down 45 every day, past marshy areas, open grass areas, dirt or poorly paved roads here and there that seemed to go nowhere (cos I never drove them to know what they connected to). There was an eerie feel about those areas south of League City as you get closer to Galveston. I’m the type to let my mind wander, so the eerie quality might not be shared by many others… I don’t know. It hit me while watching this that I’ve lived in two places, very far from each other, where serial killings have occurred. I grew up on Long Island but went to college out of state and never moved back. I have family still there, but I’ve gone back only twice. I had just heard about LISK, around 2012(?), and mentioned it to a childhood friend who still in the town where we grew up. Well, she had no idea what I was talking about. I was shocked, cos two murders connected to LISK occurred very close by, in Manorville, and the other victims found along the south coast were only about 20 minutes west. She was totally unaware, and apparently, it wasn’t something most people in the area were talking about. I think unless people follow crime, it’s possible to be largely unaware of what’s happening nearby because there’s is so much more to draw one’s attention via social media, entertainment on demand, etc. I don’t think people watch local news the way people had a couple decades back. "

"I can’t stop watching shows like this and thinking about the Black, Latine, Indigenous, and AAPI women and girls whose stories will never be told. Whose families will never get closure or find out what happened to them. The Texas Killing Fields is terrifying, what’s also terrifying is the likely possibility that there are many stories like this that get ignored because the girls and women don’t look like the girls in these stories. "

"A truly heart-wrenching story that just kept getting worse by the second. Did NOT expect it to have THAT many victims. All that being said, the timeline is a mess and little hard to understand on the first watch if you aren’t paying enough attention. This is due to a lot of backtracking and fast-forwarding. It got to the point where the dates were meaningless to me and I ended up guessing when things happened based on the interviews."

"Very compelling and heartbreaking story. "

"This doc. Is so sad.. There are truly monsters that walk among us."

"So many victims, so much heartache. A lot of the victims families did end up channeling that into helping other families going through the same things. "