Girl in the Picture
A young mother’s mysterious death and her son’s subsequent kidnapping blow open a decades-long mystery about the woman’s true identity, and the murderous federal fugitive at the center of it all.
- Released:
- Runtime: 120 minutes
- Genre: Crime, Documentaries
- Stars: Natalie De Vincentiis, Mark Chinnery, Sarah French, Dana Mackin, Meg Schimelpfenig, Robert Christopher Smith
- Director: Skye Borgman
Comments
- ellie_may_louise - 30 January 2024
Best introduction to true crime
This is the best true crime documentary. It's a great one to begin with. Rewatched this with my friend who never watched true crime before and she loved it and she wanted to watch more. The story is heartbreaking yet also heartwarming. I don't normally cry when watching documentaries but this one got to me. I've watched it at least twice now. I wholeheartedly recommend watching this to anyone who loves true crime or anyone who wants to get into the true crime world. The people who made this clearly put their heart and souls into this and made sure that they told her story properly and get everyone's story told. - OneAnjel - 18 November 2022
A sadly common story that has a lense on it
I'm surprised at how reviewers are blubbering over how well done this is. To me, it's just Netflix cashing in on their mystery genre audience by drawing out one of the many such cases that happen in the 50s & 60s, and one of the few that had some closure. It's a heartbreaking story, no doubt. But in that time, it wasn't unusual for women to get pregnant young because there was no communication to kids about sex or pregnancy; women we're treated like 2nd class citizens and kids were thought of as livestock. So it's really not an unusual story. The unusual thing about it was that the story has an ending, of sorts. What bothers me is no one seemed to check on the father's background during all those years of investigation. They would have discovered he had been married and that he had step children, including Sharon. It's also strange to me that Sharon was so bright academically but so unwilling to do anything about get situation. But as I said, women were almost thought of as property then and there would have been few options for her to turn to. Most women and children just never questioned what was happening. Babies we're often unwanted and considered a financial burden unless you had a farm where they would be used as farm workers and earn their keep. Interesting story but not that fantastical. - unknownduck - 16 August 2022
Girl in the Family Tree
Very convoluted documentary, I gave it a seven just for the sadness of the story as it wasn't very well made and would be a four or five in that regard. Film students could have put this together better. - desirekay - 27 July 2022
Overall great.
Overall it's a great documentary, leads you down a rabbit hole you just wouldn't expect. But leaves you with a lot of questions, because of some missing information/things they just didn't discuss. Like where are the 2 sisters she had now? The mother was a absolute joke, was and is she ever going to be investigated. I feel as if she sold her daughter to him, the empathy the tried to display felt disingenuous. You watch your friend get raped by their father and don't tell anyone immediately. Overall sad story about a beautiful girl with a tragic twisted life that ended too soon. I wish she was alive to tell her story. That man is the definition of evil.
