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Jewish director Joe Berlinger doesn t take a partial swing when it comes to true crime stories. For example, he made two separate features about Ted Bundy, one of them being a film starring Zac Efron (who also comes from a Jewish family) as the infamous killer. He s directed 15 different television documentaries, and a handful of feature films. Suffice to say, the guy has a thing for murder of all kinds, often digging deep into the story and coming away with a terrifying yet fascinating glimpse of the human species.Â
But that s not even half of the Berlinger appeal, something made even more evident by his latest docu-series for Netflix, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. Elisa Lam went missing at one of the most notorious hotels in the country-one located right in the middle of Skid Row-and these four episodes document the search for her, along with the toll it took on several parties.