A deep dive into one of the most intriguing true crime cases in recent history, Netflix’s Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel tells the story of Canadian college student Elisa Lam’s tragic death at the Los Angeles hotel.
Today we are speaking with the documentary’s Emmy-award winning director Joe Berlinger about the problems with the true crime genre — a term Berlinger rejects — and the lessons of his other documentaries, Paradise Lost and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.