My Father, the BTK Killer 2025 Movie Review
Today’s modern society is obsessed with true crime and primarily the (mostly) men who commit the most horrendous acts. I am partially in the group of people that have always looked into these cases, although I believe I somewhat differ to most as I’ve always enjoyed researching more on the forensic side of things rather than the supposed reasons they done the their crimes after the fact. So I was quite relieved this was a documentary told from a different perspective rather than from a group of supposed tv expert’s who had little to no relation to the actual case itself throwing in their two cents.
The documentary does bounce a lot between narratives, and although the documentary presents itself as from Kerri’s perspective, in retrospect she really doesn’t have that much screen time as compared to former detective’s and news reporters from the time. While it was interesting to hear Kerri’s story, it really didn’t delve all that much into her life and story as much as I had hoped.
The detective’s point of view, law enforcement and news reporters, to be honest ive seen so many documentaries on BTK now that I really didn’t feel we needed their story again so that part of the documentary felt awfully repetitive especially when there was little of anything new being said from them that I didn’t already know.
What I will say that the programme highlights on is the fact society doesn’t just blame the perpetrator it blames those closest to them. Unintentionally myself I’ve always thought of this woman as BTK’s daughter not by her actual name Kerri. It also raises concerns that society wether through media influence or whatever that we blame victims, we are made to at least think the question, “well how didn’t the family realize what they were living with?”, when if you think logically, the reason these people get away with these terrible crimes for long, is they are able to hide in plain sight, even right in front of the people that love them the most.
Like I said, I think this show was well intentioned, I admire Kerri’s bravery, I think most would hide and try and move on, possibly rightfully so (for her own well being) but for herself she was blindsided too by evil, she got questions she wanted answered, and it takes a hell of a lot of bravery to face the horrible truth herself. Bit of a shame the programme couldn’t focus just on that instead of trying to be a generic true crime doc as well, but overall a decent watch.
