3. Central Park

Photo: Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix

Central Park is obviously a key location in the original story, along with various locations in the park as the detectives try to desperately make sense of the contradictory geographical locations each of the boys give, compared to the actual scene of the crime. The scenes are actually filmed in the park, and early in the first episode, you see Kevin Richardson, the 14- year old promising trumpet player, enter the park in the hopes to be able to hang with the kids. As he approaches the Gothic Bridge, made of cast-iron near 94th Street, he sees the altercation and punch that sets the whole story in motion.

Other scenes are shot near the 110th Street entrance (such as the image above, where you can also see the Heritage towers in the distance) and where Trisha Meili enters the park jogging. Meili testified that she usually entered Central Park near the Metropolitan Museum of Art.