Why Did You Kill Me?

Why Did You Kill Me?

The line between justice and revenge blurs when a devastated family uses social media to track down the people who killed 24-year-old Crystal Theobald.

  • Released: 2021-04-14
  • Runtime: 83 minutes
  • Genre: Crime, Documentaries
  • Stars: Belinda Lane
  • Director: Fredrick Munk
 Comments
  • brandonjamessmith-04128 - 20 November 2021
    White privilege
    Where's the supposed white privilege that people like to bring up all the time? Did it not happen in this scenario coincidentally? Or rather is not real.....
  • reb-warrior - 6 May 2021
    A tale of the the dark side side of American people who aren't on the right side on the tracks. Pretty decent doc.
    Crystal Theobald is killed in a car shooting. Her cousin, Jaimie, comes up with the idea to pretend to be an interested young woman on My Space in order to smoke out the killer. Crystal's Mom, Belinda, later takes that over and goes extreme going after the killers. But not all is as it seems, as we have gang violence and drug usage-seller family that keeps secrets.

    I thought the doc was pretty good. The MySpace recreations were well done. The toy car scenarios are panned in a lot of the reviews but isn't that how they use toy cars in traffic court cases and other types, such as this murder, to demonstrate to the judge/jury what took place? I thought it was fine. Didn't mind it at all. It worked pretty well to show what happened that night.

    The sad part is that Crystal was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Tho, it is ironic that it just happened to be her brother that was driving the second white Ford Expedition. It's crazy that Belinda kept it secret that it was her son, Robert, that was driving the second car. I mean it's kinda important for the police to do their investigation. We find out that Belinda did drugs, meth, and sold it too. She and her sons had arrest records and convictions. So they believed in taking the law into their own hands instead of cooperating with the police.

    Jaimie was very clever in coming up with the idea in the early days of the internet, to create a fake MySpace account in order to smoke out the owner of the white Ford Expedition the gang used.

    This would be a good doc to show those young ones that want to join a gang, to say: "See, see, what happens to your life and your family's lives all because you were idiotic enough to join a gang."

    I thought the doc was pretty decent. A tale of the dark side of American people who aren't on the right side on the tracks. They're just people, people in poverty, people involved with drug usage, people involved with gangs. Every day people with different life experiences. It's sad that Crystal died, yet it seems she was a good influence on her cousin Jamie and her Mom(at the end). Her life had meaning, she didn't deserve this. 7/10.
  • katmat-67963 - 20 April 2021
    Well done but sad
    Unlike most of the reviews of this documentary, mine is positive. I thought it was interesting but heartbreaking. I didn't feel anything negative about the mother, I pitied her. She was as much a victim as her daughter was. Her life circumstances didn't give her many choices as to how she was going to support herself and her children. She did what she knew how to do, and when she knew better, she did better. No judgment here.

    All in all, I found this an interesting film. Sad, but a good glimpse into the lives of many people who drew the short end of the stick in life.