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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Richard Roeper

‘Mind Over Murder’ details the crime and punishments that still divide Beatrice, Nebraska

Six people confessed to the murder of Helen Wilson (center) but were exonerated after DNA evidence proved their innocence. (HBO)

Of all the true-crime documentary series we’ve inhaled over the last few years and all the times we’ve been perplexed and baffled and gobsmacked by the actions and words of certain individuals involved in various murders or kidnappings or heists or cons, the events of “Mind Over Murder” might just be the most mind-blowing of all.

The background. In 1985, in the small town of Beatrice, Nebraska, a beloved 68-year-old mother and grandmother named Helen Wilson was sexually assaulted and killed in her small apartment.

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