Yes, this has plenty of talking heads and the family wasn't consulted.
But if it is your opinion that his defense was bullcrap (and it was), I found this quite satisfying. It only served to condemn him. Watch it before giving a rating or a review. I almost turned it off, too.
He had already confessed to murdering her. The defense has to come up with something and so they did with this tired defense.
Here's why you should watch it -
Thank goodness for the neighbor's security camera and the neighbor who heard screams when Brooke was being murdered. The crime scene, the murderer's own words, the text messages, the timeline that could be put together quite accurately - the prosecution had the before text messages (he told her to come over, so premeditated), we have the victim arriving on camera timestamped, we have the time of her screams that were heard, we have the time he left on camera, we have his incriminating statements, we have the crime scene, we have her defensive wounds, and the wounds on his body that required stitches, as he just kept stabbing and stabbing, starting in the bedroom into the living-room, we have blood splatter and other forensics that told the entire story of the victim's murder.
We also have his crap defense and we have a sleep expert saying there's no way you fall into a deep sleep and then go sleepwalking in the literal 0-5 minutes from when he said himself he was awake, talked to her, and even hugged her, fell asleep, got up and killed her, starting in the bedroom! What? She just stood there for the possible 5 minutes while he went to sleep? Oh come on! How did the defense think this would work?!
He hugged her and in all his loser rage, his life out of control, his additions, his lies to his family, his crappy job (meat slaughtering house), his spending up all his inheritance money, his past life (alcoholic dad's murder-suicide)... And he snapped, grabbed the knife by his bed, and killed her for the oldest reason on the books - if I can't have you, no one will.
Hearing the GUILTY of FIRST DEGREE MURDER VERDICT and the judge sentencing him to LIFE WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE was so satisfying. It was worth the watch.
Yes, it's hard to get through the trailer and the first moments of bs, but trust me, your frustrations will be satisfied at the end.
But as her broken father said - There are no winners.
PS I think the only thing the jury got wrong was to dismiss a sexual angle. He was friend-zoned by the victim and her sister (who oddly enough testified for the defense), overweight, not particularly attractive, and there was his very attractive female friend, who had zero interest in him and was leaving him and his crap life to go with her bf. He was also naked in her closet just the day before. What was he planning for? That she'd want to sleep with him for a last goodbye or was he going to rape her the day before?
He killed her in a loser's rage!
