American Nightmare Documentary on Netflix .

Yes I remember this case when it was going on since it's somewhat local to me. It's just a crazy and the documentary left me with so many unanswered questions.

I will put that on my list to watch, thank you. I am watching a series about a professor in Canada, Sasha Reid, who teaches a class about the makings of a serial killer. She had gone to high school with an indigenous girl who was killed and nothing was done about it. It haunted her. She started assembling a data base of missing people and serial killers, expanding it as her research provided more information. It has grown to be the largest and most comprehensive list in the country.

There was an area of gay people where gay men started being killed. The police announced on television that it was absolutely not the work of a serial killer. She felt it was and started looking through her data bases and what attributes she felt the serial killer would have. She came up with a name and was right! She profiled that the killer would have a job where he worked with his hands. The guy was a landscaper and was burying the bodies of these men on one of his job sites.

She realized she couldn’t do all the work herself so she started searching for other women with backgrounds in forensics, psychology, data base management, and who had a strong investigative interest. They call themselves the Midnight Order. Together these women are compiling and investigating all the cases of missing or murdered women that some police departments have just brushed aside, predominantly those of indigenous women.

Hearing what some of the police did to bungle the case at the start of one missing woman just disgusting. One young girl that had grown up with 4 older brothers had spent the evening with her family at an event and left to go home. She did not go to work the next day and did not call in. The brothers met this police officer at her home to start the case. There was a half cup of tea on the kitchen table. The police officer picked up the cup, no gloves, and threw the tea into the sink. One of the brothers was alarmed and asked if he should be touching things like that. The cop laughed at him and said what do,you think we will do? Fingerprint things? And he said the sister wasn’t missing and would be back in a few days. They never found her body. Not all police are so dismissive of women disappearing or being murdered, but there shouldn’t be even one. Far too many just don’t take it seriously and have no business being police officers in my opinion.

Although the professor did say that some police are taking her more seriously after she pointed out the serial killer in the gay part of town when they told her and the public that there was no serial killer. She said they welcome any intelligent women who have the required skills and the interest to come and work with them to help find these missing women whose cases are being ignored. She said if their name is in her data base of missing people, she cares and will work to find out what happened to them. It is both sad and very inspiring.