This psyche-shatteringly crazy true-crime documentary meticulously shows not just the frailty of humanity – but how a damaged community can be repaired
In terms of its content, Mind Over Murder (Sky Crime) is as psyche-shatteringly batshit as any of its many stablemates in the true-crime documentary genre. Formally, it is a thing of precision-engineered beauty.
It could have, should have sprawled, if for no other reason than the number of alleged perpetrators involved. The Beatrice Six, as they came to be known, comprised Joseph White, Thomas Winslow, JoAnn Taylor, James Dean, Debra Shelden and Kathy Gonzalez. The terrible murder of which they were accused and the case built against them nearly 40 years ago are laid out in the first two episodes of this meticulous six-part docuseries by Nanfu Wang.
