Haunted by the murder of his brother Scott in 1988, Steve Johnson -- a wealthy tech entrepreneur -- embarked on a decades-long search for justice.
Scott Johnson was a gay America man living in Australia, working on a doctorate in mathematics. One day Scott's unclothed body was discovered at the bottom of a cliff. Authorities conclude he died by suicide, but his brother, Steve, thinks there is more to the story. And there is.
Most of the authorities seemed to operate more out of incompetence and a desire to wrap up what they believe is a open-and-shut case. There is one police officer, however, Pamela Young, who presented herself as a frightfully insensitive, a person utterly without a heart, a "mean girl" who seemed to feel absolute glee at road blocking Scott Johnson's grief-stricken brother. At one point, Pamela actually has to pause because she's laughing too hard at some memory of working on the case -- a murder case. Of the hundreds -- if not thousands of documentaries -- I have seen over the years, I have never seen a person present herself in as shabby a manner as Pamela Young.
Steve Johnson's tenacity paid off. Kudos to Australian police. Some of them listened. Some of them took an interest. Some of them solved the crime.
Scott Johnson was a gay America man living in Australia, working on a doctorate in mathematics. One day Scott's unclothed body was discovered at the bottom of a cliff. Authorities conclude he died by suicide, but his brother, Steve, thinks there is more to the story. And there is.
Most of the authorities seemed to operate more out of incompetence and a desire to wrap up what they believe is a open-and-shut case. There is one police officer, however, Pamela Young, who presented herself as a frightfully insensitive, a person utterly without a heart, a "mean girl" who seemed to feel absolute glee at road blocking Scott Johnson's grief-stricken brother. At one point, Pamela actually has to pause because she's laughing too hard at some memory of working on the case -- a murder case. Of the hundreds -- if not thousands of documentaries -- I have seen over the years, I have never seen a person present herself in as shabby a manner as Pamela Young.
Steve Johnson's tenacity paid off. Kudos to Australian police. Some of them listened. Some of them took an interest. Some of them solved the crime.