Netflix’s new docuseries from Dick Wolf revisits five notorious New York murders.
Dick Wolf, the supreme ruler of theLaw & Orderuniverse, knows better than to fix what isnt broken.
They investigate the most brutal and difficult murders.

Cops on the scene at New York’s Carnegie Deli in ‘Homicide: New York’.Netflix
These are their stories.
The chung chung is implied.
What makesHomicidean above-average true-crime experience is its creators eye for intriguing characters.
Most true crime shows center on shocking events, of course.
You dont judge a book by its cover, he notes.
And in this case, it turned out to be true.
When I go to bed every night, I talk to him, says Frank, now 95.
But I cant get any answers.
Even so, the detectives we get to know inHomicideare quick to scrutinize themselves.
What did I miss?
Could I have paid more attention to something?
wonders retired detective Scott Wagner, who unwittingly interviewed one of the murderers years before he was caught.
That question still bothers me today.