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It nearly killed me. Might come as a rude shock for fans of true-crime documentaries, considering how humdrum it turns out to be. The crime in question is how in 2006, 24-year-old Crystal Theobald was shot to death in the middle of a street, with the police left with no leads to trace the gunman. Frustrated with the stale investigation, Crystal’s mother, Belinda Lane, decides to go the unconventional way and weaponises MySpace to hunt down the suspects.
While the subject matter is awe-inspiring, the documentary really fails to capture all the intrigue. In its attempt to get beneath the surface of the tragedy, the narrative drifts far away from the heart of it all and beyond halfway ends up losing steam. It doesn’t realise that a brooding mother’s pursuit to apprehend her daughter’s murderers is far more intriguing than a snapshot of California’s crime scene. The filmmakers’ inclination towards the ‘gangs’ behind the homicide robs us of the det
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The line between justice and revenge blurs when a devastated family uses social media to track down the people who killed 24-year-old Crystal Theobald.
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