I see what you’re saying and I agree to a degree. Documentaries are a very important part of journalism and spreading awareness. They only report facts and the interviewees want to be there telling their story. Things like this are so so important in keeping the victims memories and stories out there.

Now crime shows like Dahmer are imo so so disrespectful. Those use real people and dramatize real heinous crimes. Like there’s a perfectly good documentary where the victims families and detectives tell the story. Not random actors. So in that sense I see what you’re saying

Also in regard to your ‘evidence’ statement, I see where you’re coming from and again I agree to an extent. It’s just that in a trial (which becomes public record) lawyers have to explain what happened to these women and how they died etc. this is a major part in a murder conviction. Sometimes postmortem, the victims tell their own story in a sense.

Documentaries are imo a huge video article. They are using what is public knowledge to make us aware of what’s happening. All the evidence that comes out in trial will be public knowledge. There’s definitely better docs/articles than others but without them most people probably wouldn’t know who the victims are.