I think Ali let her guard down around Conway. OK so back to Conway - often times people with advanced personality disorders are meticulous with the image they portray to the outside world. Something that would both make her capable of committing it and able to separate mentally from the burden years later. I think Ali has much deeper psychological problems like multiple or split personality disorder. She was very ill and says “one day I just decided I didn’t want to be sick anymore.” What?!įull disclosure, I do believe Ali did it. She says she was diagnosed with Borderline at a young age but we know how strong her mind is. Here’s my theory: because Ali has much more complex psychological issues than we know about. I wouldn't take Conway's order of events as the gospel. And that's without the elevated stress and anxiety of being in the middle of a family tragedy.Īnyway, Ali could have easily made the crime scene comment after the body was found. Despite the deliberate effort to remember details and keep them fresh in my memory, there were things I couldn't recall or started to second guess once I was on the witness stand. (Law enforcement runs in my family.) The trial kept being delayed until we were finally in court nearly 18 months later. At the time of the incident, I was doing my best to record as much data as possible in my mind. I'm not suggesting that she's lying, just that memory is a funny thing.įor instance, I was a witness in a drunk driving case a couple years ago. Between the trauma, alcoholism, and health issues, she has a lot going on. Finally - and this is a big point - Conway is an incredibly unreliable narrator. They remembered seeing the road being blocked off by police. Also, the same person said that morning was very gray and overcast. The person who lives in Madison noted that most of the other homes on Middle Beach Road are summer homes, so there wouldn't have been people around to see anyone approaching the house. Apparently it was very difficult to see the home from the road or the golf course. There was many more trees and a lot of old-growth brush around the property. Someone who lives in Madison - or maybe it was in one of Madison's interviews - noted that the house was almost completely hidden at the time. Conway said the police left the purse at the house after they released the crime scene. woman clean out her basement at the time of the attacks. Conway was living elsewhere and said she was helping a 90-y.o. Others have noted that it takes about 15 minutes to drive from the school to the house. Ali was at school from 7:54 to 10:50 a.m., so she was there nearly three hours. The final scene in which he cuts to a clip from an old home movie of himself as a toddler with his mother was incredibly touching, and a rightful ending reminding viewers that the person at the centre of this tragedy was indeed a person.A few things to answer your questions and some others. No doubt it is precisely *because* he is the son of the central figure in the documentary that he is able to avoid the exploitation and de-humanization that so often mar true crime documentaries, where the gory details and detective work overshadow the humanity of the person whose life was lost, and the trauma, loss, and humanity of all those who loved that person. To me, the greatest success of this documentary is that while I started watching it for the reason that I suspect we all watch true crime documentaries - for the thrill of trying to solve the mystery myself from my living room - I continued watching it because Hamburg was so earnest in his desire to discover his mother as a person, and never lost sight of that as the ultimate goal of this project. Instead, Hamburg was able to craft a story that was thoroughly compelling for viewers while maintaining what appeared at all times to be sincere compassion and empathy as a family member. Or indeed, that he would have already made his mind up as to who murdered his mother and would have a singular vision in bringing that person down. I was skeptical at first that being so close to the story in question, Hamburg would not have the objectivity needed to investigate all angles and expose often ugly truths about his own family. Considering that this is Madison Hamburg's first-ever documentary and that his own mother and family are the subject of the docuseries, I was surprised at how excellent this was.
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