Who Killed Dorothy Lou Thompson? Inside HBO’s ‘The Pet Cemetery Murders’

‘The Pet Cemetery Murders’: HBO’s Latest True-Crime Tale Is a Microcosm of American Trauma

“The trauma of America is in the land,” says Scottish filmmaker Philip Cairney, who tells VF that one strip of Louisiana property haunts all who touch it.

How was Dorothy Thompson’s murder solved? 'The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story' ending explained

HBO’s true-crime docuseries revisits a decades-old murder, a property dispute, a long-silent eyewitness, and the disturbing history.

‘The Pet Cemetery Murders’ Turns A Cold Case Into A Ghost Story

It is a strange turn of events when the ghosts are having more luck solving cold case murders than the local police are managing to accomplish.

Bayou crimes mostly go unpunished in the haunting HBO doc The Pet Cemetery Murders

The three-part series doesn’t try to reinvent the true-crime genre, but it does tell an engaging tale of Louisiana injustice.

Who Killed Dorothy Lou Thompson? Inside HBO’s ‘The Pet Cemetery Murders’

HBO’s “The Pet Cemetery Murders” explores the 1985 murder of Dorothy Lou Thompson, whose cold case was cracked after two people claimed her ghost haunted them.

Stream It Or Skip It: 'The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story' on HBO, about the 1985 murder of a Louisiana woman and the cursed land she called home

The three-part docuseries, directed by Philip Cairney, examines the brutal murder of Dorothy Lou Thompson.