Just started the first episode of the HBO docuseries on the 1989 Austin frozen yogurt shop murders. Have always heard about this case, but don't know too many details about it. Locked in for this one.
Researching this story now. I'll spoiler tag for anybody who wants go into the doc cold In 2023 in Ocala, Florida a racist Karen develops a pattern of harassing the kids in the neighborhood. It comes to a boiling point when she calls throws something at a child for leaving stuff in her yard. This prompts the mother of the child to angerly knock on her door to confront her. The Karen proceeds to shoot a gun through her locked door killing the mother. She tried to claim Stand Your Ground (Florida), but it doesn't work. She was convicted and is serving 25 year sentence for Manslaughter.
The Perfect Neighbor was the best true crime doc I have seen in a decade at least. Revolutionary for the genre.
I admittedly laughed when the lady fell for the old "would you like to write a letter to the victim's kids?" cop trick during interrogation. lol I learned about that shit from The Wire.
One of the creepiest parts of The Perfect Neighbor was when the deputy knocks at her door at night and she screams "ONE MINUTE!!!!" so aggressively the cop was even taken aback. Then she changed her tune as soon as she saw it was a cop. That was the one slight glimpse we the viewer saw how that lady actually is when cops aren't around.
This is wild. The debate to release her or keep her in custody had been going on for months and she was just released a few weeks ago. Slender Man stabbing attacker missing, cuts off GPS monitor