"We are always aware, I think, of man's inhumanity to man. The latest true-crime documentary from Netflix is here to remind you that this is an umbrella term. It is undoubtedly rarer, though precisely why is unclear, but women can inflict the most awful suffering too and here, a pair of them do so on children. Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story is the latest offering from Skye Borgman, who is the undisputed queen of the genre, specialising in high-end takes on the most extreme,"
"She made her name with 2017's Abducted in Plain Sight, about the case of Jan Broberg, who was kidnapped not once but twice by Robert Berchtold, a close friend of the Brobergs and a sexual predator who effectively groomed the whole, spectacularly naive family. The Girl in the Picture, five years later, tells the story of a young woman known as Sharon Marshall, found after her death in a suspicious hit-and-run accident"
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story examines women who inflicted severe suffering on children and situates the case within a pattern of extreme, often only-in-America depravity. The filmmaker specialises in high-end true-crime films that take sober, unsensationalised approaches to shocking cases. Previous films detailed abduction, long-term sexual abuse, and concealed familial violence, combining witness testimony with facts, timelines and evidential challenges. The films give victims and witnesses time to speak thoughtfully while interleaving police and prosecutorial perspectives. Evil Influencer includes measured accounts from Detective Jessica Bate and centers on a 12-year-old boy whose appearance at a stranger's door revealed alarming neglect.
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