New True Crime Show

Today, I watched a new Hulu show called Lessons of Murder in which a former FBI agent who now teaches a graduate program at the University of South Florida and her students analyze murders to see if they can figure out why they are killers as they profile them. They do this by interviewing family and friends of the victim(s) and the murderer when possible and looking into their past. Then, they interview the murderer. It is interesting to see the similarities in each person as well as the differences. When they interview the murderers, it is a bit eerie. In the first episode, he reveals one more victim as he claims that he did what was best for her because she was close to death anyway. The second guy continually declared his innocence even though there was enough evidence to put him on death row. The third episode featured a female serial killer (something very rare). When she was interviewed, she basically blamed the other people involved and gave a different timeline than anyone else. Also, I remember seeing her a few years ago on an HLN series about women in prisons. Back then, I felt sorry for her. I didn't really feel that way after listening to her actual crimes and history. 

I would highly recommend this show for anyone who likes true crime. It can be a bit disturbing, but it does not go into as much detail as some other shows. Also, the crimes are not being described in a way that shows how they figured out who committed the crime. We already know that. They are getting into his head and pointing out that these are not traits of most people in the world.