VIA BEST OF THE WEB, I see that the town fathers of Pikeville, Kentucky are unhappy with the episode of City Confidential that focused on the Lillelid murders.

I found the episode — like most City Confidential episodes — to be a bit, um, dramatic. But in fact Pikeville has a lot to be embarrassed about where the Lillelid murders are concerned. As the Instawife’s documentary illustrates (the online trailer hits some of the key points), there were significant failures in the schools, the justice system, and the community that allowed those murders to take place. That doesn’t get the murderers off the hook, of course, but it does suggest that the Pikeville authorities should focus a bit on the beam in their own eyes, not just the mote in others’.

UPDATE: Not a lot of sympathy around the blogosphere.