I Am A Killer Season 5 Review: Exploring the Depths of Darkness and Beyond

I Am a Killer returns to Netflix for a fifth season and explores true crime through intimate documentary interviews with incarcerated murderers. Maintaining the style long-time fans have come to expect, this season delves deeper into understanding the psychological factors behind violent crime and how people can change after committing another human being’s ultimate transgression.

Each episode profiles a different convicted murderer and presents the account of the events along with commentary from victims’ families, investigators and others connected to the case. Some still protest their innocence today, years later, while others express deep remorse. The series not only tells the facts of each tragedy, but also explores what events in a person’s life could lead them down such a dark path and whether redemption is possible after someone is killed.

Over the course of this review, we’ll look at how some stories touched me more than…