A "cry for help" documentary that's well-known enough to be put out on a streaming service as well as a network (Netflix and CBS). Yeah I'm talking about 2026's The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson, one of those 95-minute flicks that's more like a encomium to a murdered victim than a spell out mystery. I mean it's pretty brutal to endure what the Wilson fam has gone through right? And how unbelievably stoic is Moriah's convicted killer in Kaitlin Armstrong? And um, talk about some love triangle, green-eyed monster shtick in good old Kate. "My friend is laying on the bathroom floor." Yikes.
So OK, "Truth and Tragedy" is slickly shot by veteran Marina Zenovich, she of 30 for 30 and What Happens in Hollywood fame. There's the usual archives of yore (mid 90s and such), present-day interviews from Wilson family members that cut deep, and an initial suspect in Colin Strickland. You know, the dude who dated Moriah Wilson and unknowingly purchased the gun that offed her.
Uh, you want a 48 Hours episode that's more somber and without Mr. Peter Van Sant at the helm? Well you'll get that with "Truth and Tragedy". And do you want a docu where you feel the nerve endings of Karen and Eric Wilson and just about everyone else involved in Moriah's abbreviated life? Prego...it's truly in there. Natch.
Distributed by Netflix (duh) and filmed sequentially with sledgehammering sentiment, The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson is about of course, Moriah Wilson, a promising pro cyclist who gets murdered in May of 2022 by a covetous ex-girlfriend of Moriah's ex-boyfriend. The remaining Wilsons, well they want the world to feel their pain and why not. I mean why a foolish craven would end the entity of a young 25-year-old is truly beyond me. "Tragedy spring."
Written by Jesse Burleson
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