Sunday, February 07, 2021
Best of The Real-Crime Series: Strongly Recommending HBO’s “The Investigation”
Posted by Peter Quennell
Similarity To The Perugia Case
How long did Meredith’s case take to be investigated?
The Knox-Sollecito conspiracy theorists would have everyone outside Italy believe the cops and prosecutors downed tools in days if not hours.
In fact it continued flat-out for EIGHT MONTHS and years later evidence was still being added, for example the DNA analysis during the Nencini appeal, in large part by crack national-level experts.
“The Investigation” is about the death of a very smart 30-year-old woman reporter, Kim Wall, by Peter Madsen, an industrialist, in a small submarine off Copenhagen. It is a series in six parts and has just begun airing on HBO and several streaming services.
This investigation was equally exhaustive, taking over two years, and it led to a life sentence for the sex-deviant Madsen (there is a lot about his obsessive history on-line) and even finally a confession.
With scant evidence of an intentional killing, it was far less open-and-shut than Meredith’s case. And yet the investigators remorselessly kept crushing the murderer’s changing alibis and explanations.
Neither the murderer nor his victim ever appear on-screen. An interesting idea for a movie update on Meredith’s case.
Posted by Peter Quennell on 02/07/21 at 03:27 PM in
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