The investigation suggests a much larger and darker conspiracy than a backwoods serial killer.
A group of connected and powerful men may have gotten away with a series of heinous crimes.
Weve seen good cops do really bad things onTrue Detective.
Weve seen bad cops do remarkably good things.
It is a bigger truth Wayne has been hunting with an obsessive inflexibility.
One so deep we believe Hays could never let go of its pursuit.
It passes through his eyes quickly, bypassing his policemans intuition and into very real shared fright.
What Hays sees in that dead boy chills him just a little more than it saddens him.
Not much, but enough to telegraph to the audience this is evil beyond what he wants to investigate.
He doesnt want to go there.
A pact with the devil has nothing on that.
She then asks Hays what he knows about the Franklin scandal.
He served 13 months in county jail and the investigation was halted.
The rings alleged connections reached presidents and future presidents.
Hoyt Foods also has connections.
Kindt was a lowly West Finger District Attorney in 1980.
He ascended to the chief position by poisoning the Purcell investigation.
His office leaked information on the chaff dolls found at the scene, contaminating the detectives investigation.
He had full access to all investigative and beat patrols.
That evidence convicted Woodard posthumously.
Closing the case before it went any further up the areas hierarchical ladder.
James went on to become the head of security for Hoyt Industries.
Kindts political stock rose.
In 1990, it is suggested Tom planted the evidence and Kindt is just as quick to accept it.
Detective West doesnt come off any less likely to drop the case than Hays.
But the probe is effectively halted.
Family Ties Bind
The scandals in both seasons are family affairs.
In season 1, we learn most of the family backstory from the maid Ms. Delores.
Her reasons for snatching the children may not be ritualistic.
Her motivation comes from wanting to replace her lost child.
But similiar mechanisms could be put into play.
Both Dan and Lucy worked for the Hoyt family one way or another.
She worked on the chicken line.
Maybe she also inadvertently confessed to selling her daughter Julie to Hoyt for money.
He wants $7,000 to share this highly privileged information but never gets to deliver.
That doesnt rule out dual usage if Dan was vetting the daughter for procurement for whatever reason.
Their family is nothing, and did you see that pink room?
True Detectiveseason 1s murderer Errol Childress, played by Glenn Fleshler ofBoardwalk Empire, is also very connected.
The Childress name is stamped on a generational tradition of under-the-radar acts of familial transgression.
A cop on duty when Guy Francis killed himself was a Childress.
The Spaghetti Monster lawnmower man is a Childress.
The world is a flat circle.
The familys ties are strung along the trees of some of the most influential lawns in the state.
Senator Edwin Tuttle and related to the governor of Louisiana.
The reverend has the influence to direct the police task force to focus on anti-Christian crimes.
We learn the chicken plant founder lost his granddaughter early in season 3.
The ring may very well stretch into the area of Arkansas season 3 is set.
The Hoyt Foundation also gives money to people who have missing children.
They were even giving to the Purcell family.
His files were either damaged by a flood or stolen from his home during the investigation.
The first season ofTrue Detectivewas at least partially inspired by the Hosanna Church scandal of mid-2000s.
Lamonica confessed to sacrificing a baby in what was called the Youth Room.
The ritual site sounded likeTrue Detectives Carcosa in the first season.
The investigation turned up a child pornography ring,according to theNew York Times.
The victims were aged from 1 to 16 years old.
Lamonica named his co-conspirators, including his wife Robin, who was called The Lady.
Langes hands were posed in the same prayerful repose as the body of Will.
The perimeter of the Lange crime scene was littered with devil nets.
Wills body was found after Hays followed a trail set off by a chaff doll.
Lange had a crown of antlers on her head.
A crooked spiral was painted on her back.
We even see a flock of birds form the pattern during a particularly evocative sequence.
Her implication is the Arkansas State Police investigation was stymied by the power of an underage sex ring.
Hays tells her I dont think thats right.
He should have at least remembered the appreciation Harris showed over Hays well-maintained body.
Wills body was found after Hays followed a trail set off by a chaff doll.
It didnt show signs of sexual abuse, which goes against the child molestation assumption.
Dora Lange was an adult woman, not a child, which also subverts the conclusion of pedophilia.
There are five hooded figures in a picture with Dora Lang at her mothers house.
Marty Harts daughter Audrey positions five clothed Ken dolls standing over a naked Barbie.
This points to how far into the family the danger came.
Marty executed Reggie when he and Rust found two other young children hed victimized, one to death.
Dewall got himself killed by running into a landmine.
Hart and Cohle shot up the woods to cover up the agonized execution.
Like Woodard and Tom Purcells convictions, Reggies death ended the investigation.
We never learn their name of the cult from Season 1.
They were never brought to justice, and may still be operating.
The Crooked Spiral cult could have Yellow King mythological roots.
They may also have a chapter in Arkansas protected by its powerful members like the gatherings at Bohemian Grove.
The 2015 documentary producer Elisa Montgomery may have evidence the Crooked Spiral was forged in Carcosa.
The lead detective onTrue Detectivemay be ensuring its longevity.
He is also a father.
Unless, of course, Amelia is the killer.
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