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’

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.