True crime is reaching a new Golden Age. In the era of everyone mining their lives for content, TikTok sleuths can investigate murders while whole documentaries can be made out of social media screenshots and archival footage. True crime podcasts have become a huge genre, boasting playful titles like “My Favorite Murder” and “Crime Junkies.” But behind all the spectacle and speculation is always a human life that was cut short — a truth that often falls by the wayside.
A new Netflix documentary takes one of the most famous unsolved murders in American history and lays out a case with new insight from the victim’s own father, never losing sight of the fact a little girl won’t be able to grow up because of what happened the night of Christmas 1996.
