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Anyone else notice this?


This is an interesting show but the last episode of the first season "Web of Lies" seems to be a reenactment or there is far more to the story than is led on.

The detectives follow the phone trail to a girl named Jaziza who lives in a "college apartment" in Fort Wayne. They interview her about the phone calls she has been receiving from the victim's phone. On the wall behind them a picture showing Jesus crucified is bordered by two identical and longer pictures with a child looking up (for some reason the two side pictures are blurred out in some scenes and left clear in others). After intense questioning back in Indianapolis the girl is eventually cleared.

The focus then shifts to her x-boyfriend. They end up enlisting the help of US Marshals and seem to have tracked the x-boyfriend down. The scene shows them preparing to get him from a "nearby apartment complex." They enter the apartment looking for the guy and shockingly the same three pictures are on the wall. It seems that they had tracked this guy back to Jaziza's apartment. It's the exact same room but there is no mention of this fact. It would seem that the detectives would find it pretty incriminating if they tracked their suspect back to someone they had already cleared. At the very least it's remarkable and you would think the narration would acknowledge this fact. It's really strange and makes me question the "reality" of this show.

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I noticed that as well. My assumption is that Jaziza agreed to get Christopher Conwell over to her apartment and then allowed the police in. The show was real, no doubt. If you look on the IDOC website you will see that Christopher Conwell is incarcerated for killing those two people. What the episode did NOT reveal is that Avery Elzy was a man, or was at least born a man. Google Layia Lovely.

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I didnt notice but now it makes sense why he was naked.

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I'm sure it has to do with the way the film crew edit and narrate the episode. The show is 100% real but if they cut out key elements and narrate wrong information, it will have the feel of being staged.

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