THE ARCHIVE / DOCUMENTARY ESSAYS
People before
spectacle.
The names first. The record matters.
Films about what happens when real lives become stories for sale.
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We Built
the Butcher
Mary Hogan ran a tavern. Bernice Worden ran a hardware store. Their killer became a horror blueprint. Whose life gets room when the story is told again?
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