“No One Saw a Thing” on SundanceTV

Avi Belkin, the director and executive producer behind SundanceTV’s (currently streaming) true crime series No One Saw a Thing, has described his six-part look at a nearly four-decade-old cold case as a Rashomon-style inquiry. The Israeli director – whose Mike Wallace Is Here premiered at Sundance back in January and in theaters just this past July – revisits the 1981 murder of “bully” Ken Rex McElroy (and the multiple violent incidents that followed his death) in Skidmore, Missouri by going to the small town and interviewing those who were there at the time. Literally. For though no one was ever charged with shooting McElroy in the head, while his wife sat beside him in his truck, there were by some estimates around 60 witnesses to the killing. And yet, once investigators came calling the entire town closed ranks. No one was convicted back then because “no one saw a thing.”

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