I love this show! The actual detective narrates, and the actors so far are spot on!!!

The concept is great, but why did they pick these particular detectives? They are all pretty eloquent and the cases are interesting, but they aren't very involving to me after watching a load of documentaries like "Making a Murderer", "The Staircase" and "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst". Admittedly those are all series which took time to explore the facts, but this semi-dramatisation seems to fall at the first hurdle which is the one where the cases are actually fascinating. I think that there's a series to be made here in the same style but with unsolved murders/killings/whatever, but this gets very boring very quickly because the cases aren't fully explored. The detectives are great and hats off to them, but either tell the whole story or don't bother. Very average so 5/10.

I have often been tearful by the end of an episode as the stories told by the detective involved has obviously had an enormous impact on their own personal lives. They have lived and breathed the case, often sacrificing their own happiness in their private lives, either with family, or the battle with some form of alcoholic addiction needed to cope and numb the pain. You cannot help but feel for these policemen who have dedicated so much mentally to get justice for the victims, who are often children, which makes it even more heartbreaking as the empathetic viewer I am. Only a few true crime documentaries have ever had me so hooked. Another of note being "Homicide Hunter" with Lt Joe Kenda. These stories will have you hooked from start to finish!

Good production value, I also liked that they got some solid and recognizable actors on board, but overall I couldn't stand the depressing tone of it for too long. Watched the first episode to the end because of the intriguing case, watched the second one because I recognized Tahmoh Penikett from a number of sci-fi shows, then skipped to #7 to see Zoie Palmer and that was enough for me.It's good that they tried to keep you aware throughout that these were real stories from real detectives, by having them narrated by the detectives themselves, but they went too far when they decided to visually flash back and forth between the detective and the dramatization. That fragmented the experience and made it much harder to absorb. They should've shown the detective maybe at the beginning and at the end, but not so many times throughout the story. And then the scripts could've been much better - they're too simplistic, like someone was trying to make drama out of a list of facts from a police report, it just left a lot to be desired.It's impressive for what it is, I've never seen reenactments or docu-dramas made quite this well before, but the constantly ominous and depressing tone just wasn't something I could put up with for 8 full episodes.