The crime
The 1990 murder and dismemberment of bank employee Beverly McGowan – by, police suspected, her roommate of recent vintage, "Alice" – and the subsequent credit-card and identity theft from McGowan's estate, as well as other various marks.

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The story, which may contain spoilers; to avoid them, jump to the last graf
I know everyone's sick of the "should have been a two-hour feature" crit about docuseries. Nobody's sicker of it than I am! I feel like I say it on a weekly damn basis about pointlessly serialized narratives, and not just true-crime ones, either.