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Although New Yorkers may still deride the tourist spot, it wasn't always full of Broadway shows and M&M stores, and the docuseries examines its history in the '70s and '80s when the neighborhood was mainly for drug use and sex work, allowing for the Times Square Torso Ripper to run rampant.
The series tries to make sense of theories that arm chair detectives have evaluated for years, ever since the case's surveillance footage went viral online, and there are enough peculiarities here to keep you from cutting your stay short. Then, for its second season, the series heads across the country and back in time to examine another site of infamy: Times Square. The subject of this doc, though, is the death of Canadian traveler Elisa Lam, whose body was discovered in a water tank in the hotel in 2013. In its first season, The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, the series checks into LA's scariest hotel: the Cecil, which has experienced more than a few horror stories. Crime Scene is an anthology from Paradise Lost trilogy and The Ted Bundy Tapes filmmaker Joe Berlinger, with each installment unpacking the infamy behind specific locations where crimes have taken place.