In recent years, Netflix has produced a lot of blockbuster documentaries.
Alien Kingdom, Making Murderers, Guardians... It has received excellent word-of-mouth and ratings.
The viewing, suspense and bizarreness of these documentaries are no less than those of carefully filmed drama films.
"Making a Murderer," in particular, has sparked a frenzied discussion across the United States.
One of the highlights of the Netflix documentary series is the use of a large number of first-hand video materials.
Video recordings of interrogations of suspects, video recordings of crime scene investigations, witnesses' confessions, etc., are restored to the truth as much as possible.
This, of course, requires a huge amount of in-depth work and consumes a lot of time.
The film that Uncle Yu wants to introduce today, the director began in 2003, and it took 15 years to make it.
Evil Genius: America's Most Wicked Bank Robbery
Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist
The title is a bit long, but it actually contains two important points of information:
A demonic genius, a brutal bank robbery that caused a sensation across the United States.
To Uncle Yu's surprise, this demonic genius turned out to be a woman.
That is, the heroine of this film, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong.
Unlike ordinary demons, who grew up in twisted families, Marjorie was born into a wealthy family with only one daughter.
When I was a child, I was very tall, and the more I grew up, the more Peugeot came out, and I was the first big beauty in the crowd to attract your attention.
Also very good at playing, versatile.
What's more, she was a smart brainer, graduating from high school in the top 12 grades, and graduated with 5 degrees including a bachelor's degree in sociology and a master's degree in education.
Appearance, figure, education, family are first-class, this is the contemporary "white rich beauty + high IQ + high education" perfect woman.
Friends described her in one word, "magnetic." It's like a magnet that draws everyone around you to it.
However, the men who have been in contact with Marjorie have encountered misfortunes one after another.
One of the boyfriends, after breaking up with Marjorie, hanged himself on the beam of his house;
The other boyfriend froze to death in the refrigerator like chicken, duck and fish.
And her husband, who fell and hit his head on the coffee table, died.
She sued the hospital for negligence and received a large sum of compensation for it.
At least 5 men she's been in a relationship with in her life are bizarre! death!
She shot and killed and was successfully exonerated on "self-defense" grounds.
Yes, Marjorie is the "evil genius" in the eyes of the subject.
But even though she was involved in many murders, she still lived a free and prosperous life, bought a house and land, held a large amount of compensation, and did not have to work.
But by the time she reappeared in the public eye in her 50s, it had become like this.
At this time, she was involved in a "collar bomb" bank robbery that sensationalized the United States.
In 2003, a 46-year-old uncle delivering pizza in a small town in Pennsylvania robbed NPC Bank (one of the top ten banks in the United States).
But this robbery is very bizarre.
First of all, the blackmail method is too strange.
Generally speaking, we think of robbing a bank, pulling out a gun and yelling, "Don't move, give Lao Tzu money!" That's it, or at most a small note.
When the 46-year-old pizza uncle robbed, he actually gave the teller a full 2 pages of "extortion letter", like a paper.
Secondly, the weapon is very special, a strangely shaped "crutch gun".
It looks like a cane, but is actually a loaded pistol.
On top of that, Uncle Pizza had a bulge in his neck, which the police later discovered was a time bomb.
That said, it's not just a bank robbery.
Uncle Pizza was forced to rob him, and he carried another 6 pages with a hidden "scavenger hunt".
He needs to go to various locations within the specified time to get instructions and complete the task of robbing the bank in order to get the key to unlock the collar, otherwise, it will explode.
The letter asked for $250,000, and the final counter was only 8,000.
Shortly after Uncle Pizza walked out of the bank, under the siege of the police, the collar around his neck really exploded, and he was killed on the spot.
In order to save the integrity of the collar, the forensic doctor finally had to choose to cut off Uncle Pizza's head.
Pretty miserable.
Such a sensational case alarmed the FBI, the state police, and the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives), but the police searched around and still had no clue.
So what is the connection between this bank robbery and Marjorie?
That brings us to another homicide three weeks later, where the body was hidden in the refrigerator.
As mentioned earlier, the deceased was Marjorie's ex-boyfriend.
And the reporter, Rostan, was once Marjorie's boyfriend.
in Rostan
Rothstein confessed to the police that he had a man's body in his refrigerator and that he had carried the body into the refrigerator himself, adding that it was all because of Marjorie's seduction.
"She's very smart, very smart, she knows how to manipulate people."
According to Rothstein, one night Marie Jo called and said that her boyfriend had died unexpectedly at home, and she made a pitiful appearance of "only you can save me", hoping that Rothstein would help dispose of the body.
The body was frozen thoroughly, and it took the police 4 days to fully thaw it.
Autopsies showed that the man died in a gunshot and died 3 weeks before the collar bomb.
In the end, Marie Jo pleaded guilty, but repeated the trick by saying that she had a mental illness and was sentenced to several years in prison.
She is filled with resentment towards Rothstein for betraying herself and asserts that "he can't live without me".
As if under a curse, in less than a year, Rothstein lost weight and died of terminal cancer.
Rostan, like Mary Joe, was born into a wealthy Jewish family, was tall and handsome in his youth, and was "extremely intelligent" to help run the family's Coke bottling factory.
Rostan and MarieJo met as teenagers, dated, and even engaged at one point.
But somehow the two didn't end up together, and Rothstein hasn't been with another woman since.
However, is there any connection between the Frozen Male Corpse Case and the Collar Bomb Case?
Two years later, not a single suspect in the Collar Bomb case has appeared.
Fox News brought the case back into view with a major witness.
He claimed to have seen Mary Joe on the highway near the crime.
And I called the relevant agencies that year, but I have not been formally questioned.
Pushed by the media, when the police re-examined Mary Jo's belongings, they found a surprising piece of evidence.
A letter of complaint against PNC Bank.
Because the bank manager agreed that her father had taken the money that belonged to Mary Jo from the bank.
In the letter, she said she was angry at both her father and the bank.
On the other hand, Marie Jo, who is in prison, in order to transfer to a better prison, began to say that the dead Rothstein had been involved in the bombing.
Unexpectedly, this loosening mouth put herself in.
Then more witnesses appeared, involving two other collaborators.
Police have enough evidence that Mary Joe was involved in the bombing.
But the motive, why did she coerce Uncle Pizza into robbing the bank?
The answer sounds ridiculous —
She wants to get revenge on the bank and her father, so she robs $250,000 from the bank, then uses the money to hire killers and then murder her father.
True and evil people.
The documentary, which took director Trey Borzillieri 15 years, approached and interviewed almost everyone involved, and his final conclusion was already pointed out in the title:
Mary Joe was a pure Evil Genius.
(Directed by Trey Borzillieri)
She wasn't as bad as her original family, not by some unjust violence, or by being bullied.
In fact, some psychiatrists disputed her diagnosis: there was no mental illness, "she was just a very narcissistic person with a disordered personality."
Mary Jo once said to the doctor with indignation, "I used to be the prettiest girl in town."
If she was born evil, what's the point of the director spending 15 years getting to know her?
This reminds Uncle Yu that after the recent incident at Shanghai Shiwai Primary School, some media began to follow up on the report, trying to understand why this college graduate had to behave so extremely, and trying to explore structural reasons from various aspects such as class, population, and employment.
Because in any case, the amount of information contained in the phrase "revenge society" is too general, too simple.
At this time, some netizens began to scold, "Do you want to wash the floor?" Scum shoot is not good, why pull so much?"
To tell the truth, Uncle Fish is as angry with the murderer as you are.
But according to the logic of "why pull so much", the discipline of studying the psychology and motivation of criminals should not exist at all, and it would be better to lock them up or shoot them all.
However, the study of the personal and social motives of crime is not aimed at shirking responsibility, but at better preventing similar incidents.
Through the China Judgment Documents Network, Veteran Media Personality Professor Huang Zhangjin counted the number of "criminal causes of intentional injury that endanger public safety".
It is clear that similar intentional crimes against public safety are increasing year by year. If this is due to social factors, then let's see if the relevant institutions can improve it.
If criminals are personal scum, such as natural demons like Mary Joe, the media questioning is equally valuable.
Have you noticed that it wasn't until Fox News reported that the police didn't link Mary Jo to the bombing?
This actually exposed a big problem in the management of the judicial system: it was the state police who were responsible for the frozen male corpse case, and the FBI who was responsible for the explosion case, so the state police had a lot of evidence that was not given to the FBI in time, which led to the delay in the progress of the explosion.
The facts of the case could have been revealed sooner.
It is through media investigations that people have discovered the ills of the police, at least in the future, when similar cases are encountered, institutions will learn lessons and make justice known as soon as possible.
We are often in a hurry to get angry, anxious for results, and neglect the value of asking for details.
Without details, you will be misled.
"A person from a certain province, a certain university of science and technology, unemployed", if the criminal remains in the public mind only these few lonely labels, people will discriminate against a university and a province.
Sure enough, many people began to call for restrictions on "outsiders", and then shanghai also had to do a population cleanup?
During the medieval witch trial, people also followed the Pope's chanting "Burn her!" Burn her!"
Thousands of years have passed, can we take a breath after anger and think about it carefully, and carefully ponder the causes and consequences of the incident?
Not to wash the floor, but to really understand the details, our society can improve.
Assistant Editor: Spring Whale
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