Moving on to the final episode of The Keepers tonight. It's harrowing, sickening stuff, but incredibly compelling.
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Like all unsolved mysteries, it's wall-to-wall with:
(a) those maddening, tantalising near-misses (e.g. what was in that letter addressed to Sister Cathy's sister, in her handwriting, post-marked the day after she went missing? What was really in those boxes they dug up in the cemetery?) which leave you in very little doubt that if the criminal justice system functioned in real life like it does in the movies, the killer(s) would have likely been captured almost immediately, and the poor woman found within days rather than months. There's nothing in the show so far, for example (unless I missed it), about the police knocking on her neighbours' doors, fairly routine I would have thought, where they would have surely noticed something odd in Billy Schmidt's behaviour given how he supposedly unravelled over the following months, and
(b) unanswered questions, so many unanswered questions. Like, as soon as they mentioned that letter Sister Cathy apparently sent to Koob, I thought "nah, no way he killed her, not if she's professing her undying love to him and intention to have his kids". But then you think about that letter she sent her sister, handwritten on the front, and you think about how easy it would be to type up a letter saying anything you wanted from whoever you wanted, then leave it lying around for the police to find. Who knows? There's the discrepancy in the alibi too. Meanwhile, you wonder how Maskell and Magnus knew that the anonymous girl was in Sister Cathy's apartment the night before she went missing. Who else would have known, only her roommate, who apparently rang Koob first a mere couple of hours after Sister Cathy went out to buy something, perhaps a little early to be thinking she was missing?
To be fair, there's some wonderful stuff in the show as well. The love and affection that everyone seemed to have for Sister Cathy, the strength of those abused women, the unconditional support given to Jean by her husband Mike, and most of all the amazing work being done by Gemma and Abbie, truly a labour of love. In a show packed to the rafters with so many examples of evil in its purest form, there's also a huge amount of good which is every bit as critical to the story. I'm obviously not expecting any answers in the final episode, although apparently Maskell's body was exhumed after the show was filmed to collect DNA evidence, so maybe something might yet happen in the future.
Next for me will be the OJ documentary.
