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Erin Lee Carr has made a career in crime. When I arrive at Vidiots, the DVD rental store, hangout, and art-house cinema in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, I find her thumbing through O.J: Made in America, Hoop Dreams, West of Memphis, and Capturing the Friedmans and The Jinx, both by Andrew Jarecki. “He tries not to take sides so the audience has to decide what they think happened,” she tells me. “So that shows up in a lot of my work.”
Since 2015, she has been a director or producer (and sometimes both) on more than a dozen different true-crime projects, most of them documentaries ripped from the tabloid headlines, starting with Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop, about Gilberto Valle. On…
