Watching The Detectives - Inside The Major Crime Team

[Smowball]

Is this a reconstruction or actual footage?? If real then how and why did the police decide to film everything from the day of the crime?? People being arrested, fingerprinting the house - police meetings - everything. Do they normally do that?

[elliemay1]

I wondered about that too, smowball

[Smowball]

Very confused though after the scenes I've just watched of the friend being interviewed that is definitely real as I recognised her from the news - she is so unusual looking.

[Mamyalynne]

I wondered why it all felt familiar then realised it's a repeat.


I presume the case coincided with the making of the series ( a bit like 24 Hours in A&E) but that's only a guess.

[Smowball]

Ahh that's a possibility. But the chances of filming coinciding with such a brutal well publicised case?

[sherrardk]

It's a factual documentary - http://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep3week17/detectives-inside-major-crimes-team

[Smowball]

Ohh. But why did they film it from the very beginning as they must get loads of murders? I'm confused.

[Mamyalynne]

Why did they film it?

To show as part of the series of documentaries.

[Smowball]

And they knew early on it was going to be a major case do you mean?

[Mamyalynne]

They may have filmed the start of others that never made it to the screen for whatever reason.


That case developed and resulted in convictions, so was the full package.

[Smowball]

Yes that makes sense. Thankyou

[goodgoalie]

I didn't understand why (it was said) there were around 40 detectives on this case. It seemed very clear from very early on who the main suspect was; and why did the trial last 6 weeks - the evidence was damning, including the victim's blood in the sink of the main accused.

[Smowball]

Yes the six weeks didn't make sense. And I wanted to know had Kit really made up the memory problem as she seemed to remember everything in the end?

[Mamyalynne]

You'd need to research the Court Case for those details but it certainly looks like she was faking.

[goodgoalie]

I think there's always more than is shown in these sorts of programmes. Last night I watched 'Reported Missing', about the search for an 83 year-old man with Alzheimers. Missing for over two days, and with the son having been very shifty and reluctant to speak, in the last 2 minutes of the programme the man was suddenly found in the woods somewhere, but absolutely no explanation of where he had been or how he came to be found. Or why his son had been acting strangely - frustrating!
Hope you've recovered from your unfortunate 'hugging' experience earlier, Smow

[Mamyalynne]

I was in tears at 'Reported Missing' last night, I think Archie had just wandered too far.

The Son was not very communicative was he?

[Postdog]

It's actually been on before, straight after the killer was convicted.
It was being filmed as part of a planned series, presumably this, when it was realised where it was heading.

[Smowball]

Ahh thankyou GG. Yes I've been watching most of these and it still staggers me as to how the minds of some people work.