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Just watched this documentary on Netflx. It is in three parts and is about the investigation into a kidnapping/sexual assault case and the aftermath.

Here is the thing - If you do not have any prior knowledge of this story, DO NOT read anything about this case.  Don't watch a trailer, or interviews or read anything about it.  Just watch it to experience the entirety of what occurred in the rawest sense.

All I will add is that I know from personal experience and years of observations (and participation in) that when it comes to ANY sort of investigation, some of the hardest crimes to investigate are those that are labeled "unequivocal crimes or investigations."

(For example, I greatly disliked unequivocal suicides because more often than not, families and loved ones would often mistake signs prior to the suicide for things that they were not or grasp on to things that may have been odd to them, but were not unusual to those that deal with such investigations more regularly.  To illustrate, one time we had a re-married person with children from a previous marriage commit an obvious suicide. Before the suicide, the person wrote suicide notes to his first spouse, current spouse, and children and then sealed all of them in one envelope to the newest spouse.  We were able to read all the letters but the new spouse refused to pass the other ones not addressed to her to the others.  Local authorities lacked the legal means to demand the new spouse turn over those letters to those they were addressed to, resulting in the original family accusing the new spouse of murder.  Eventually, copies of the letters were turned over to the rightful addressees, but not before the mistaken aspect of the case created major problems before the letters were turned over. This is one type of an "unequivocal death" but in this case, it is from the eyes of the loved ones.  Another type is when initially one is just not able to be 100 percent certain how something occurred.).

That is about all I will present about it.

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