The Crime Warp

I love a mystery based on real life happenings. This stylish and dark series is inspired by the memoirs of Fauna Hodel, the granddaughter of the infamous George Hodel, suspect in the gruesome and unsolved Black Dahlia murder case of 1947. Written by Sam Sheridan and starring Chris Pine as a veteran of the Korean war and now freelance journalist and India Eisley, who plays an adopted young girl who thinks she is of mixed-race parentage and is looking for her birth parents. The series is set in Los Angeles during the time of the Watts race riots and the Civil Rights Movement, and the setting oscillates between a poor black neighbourhood and the swish Californian surroundings of the privileged. Fauna Hodel (Eisley) travels to Los Angeles in an attempt to track down her grandfather George Hodel, a wealthy doctor and art lover. Even though he says he wants to see her, she never manages to establish a meeting. His ex-wife tells the girl that she is in fact white, but she ref...