You’ve watched Lover, Stalker, Killer. What now?
the true crime that's worth your time
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Lover, Stalker, Killer is certainly a sensational-sounding title, isn’t it? Based on the name, you can be forgiven for assuming the Netflix documentary feature is more ID in nature than streaming prestige. But the film (a concise 90 minutes, thanks be to god) is a surprisingly thoughtful look at a romance turned stalking case that did indeed involve a homicide, so the name describes what’s in the tin.
It’s a tin that a lot of folks are opening, if the number of emails I’ve received since my interview with Lover, Stalker, Killer‘s director and one of its producers ran on Vanity Fair’s website. People are into this doc, even more than I expected! Perhaps you are too?
With its Midwestern setting (the central figure, Omaha mechanic Dave Kroupa, could be Larry Bird’s nephew, he’s that classically middle America), twists and turns, and tech adjacent themes, there is a lot of worthwhile true crime that shares a little of L,S,K‘s DNA. Super Bowl? What Super Bowl. Do this instead.
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