Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestWhen 23-year-old Whitney Bennett goes missing, her disappearance is a mystery. No-one understands why this popular young woman would leave her home or children. After a 4 month search, police find her body, and a chilling story of murder is revealed.
Solving a murder is like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle. Sometimes, the pieces snap into place with ease and other times, they don't fit. The police must meticulously reconstruct the puzzle. Once all the pieces are found, investigators must then figure out how everything fits together, crack the case and bring justice for the victim.
Direction
Restrained vérité style lets case files speak louder than music cues.
Editing
Timeline reconstructions that turn chaos into sickening clarity.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series title refers to a nautical navigation technique—calculating position from last known point, mirroring how investigators reconstruct victims' final movements.
Released during the 2020 true crime saturation point, Dead Reckoning deliberately avoids charismatic killers to focus on systemic failures—a quiet rebellion against the Ted Bundy industrial complex.
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