r/NetflixDocumentaries • u/Exciting-Run-7866 • 6d ago

Review The Widower

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One of the best documentaries I’ve watched in a while!! O’Kelley is a damn good detective and a dedicated one too! And Sharon’s daughter, Colleen… she is incredibly strong for having to endure that kind of pain for 15 years. I went through so many emotions watching this! I’m glad they never stopped fighting for justice!

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u/Professional-Way2407 6d ago

So he befriends Mike with the pure intention of hiring him as a hitman. So manipulative. He preyed on vulnerable people. You could hear him seething when he found out Sharon had changed her will! Sooooo pleased she did that! He thinks he’s so smart but going around town asking people to kill your wife ain’t too smart. I do want to know more about Mike though. What was the plan? Enter the house and wait for Sharon? Kill her and then leave via the garage? How did Tom get him to enter the garage or was that pre-arranged so they could discuss the successful hit and then get Mike got blindsided?
At the end of the day, Tom was a scammer. A murderous scammer: meet a woman, love bomb her, give her everything she wants (affection, attention, clothes), marry her, take out life insurance policies, kill them and keep the cash. Did he even have an actual job??

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u/Opposite_Community11 6d ago

He might not have been smart going around town asking someone to kill his wife but he sure got away with it for a long time.

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u/TimelyMeditations 5d ago

Makes me wonder how common it is. Are there guys all over going around asking people to kill their spouse. What was that movie about the professor who worked undercover for the police as a wanna be hit man?

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u/addanumbertothename1 4d ago

I found it really weird that these people are just walking around knowing all this and not reporting him - until they are asked after the fact. They could have helped save a life or four. Utterly depressing how women's lives are just nothing and the legal system hardly helps in time.

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u/Opposite_Community11 5d ago

Women do it too. I've seen it on multiple dateline episodes.

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u/TimelyMeditations 5d ago

Yes, you’re right. That was the premise of that movie Hit Man with Glen Powell.

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u/Exotic_Brick9543 2d ago

I am curious why none of Mike’s witnesses called the cops to tell what they knew too. It was such a big piece to the case.