This true story’s themes of domestic violence, traumatic injury and addiction are unpacked in the straightforward documentary “The Fire That Took Her.”

It would be a disservice to Judy and her family to warn viewers about just how graphic some scenes are in The Fire That Took Her. That’s the point. Facing that pain is just one small way that we, the audience, can pay our respects.

Although she was murdered, Malinowski’s story is not that of a victim, but of a woman who fought for justice — not just towards the man who murdered her, but also unfair laws in the state of Ohio — until the bitter end.

A genuinely harrowing but also hopeful true crime tale that is a cautionary tale both of domestic abuse as well as the opioid crisis that reminds us how much women's voices matter and that justice occasionally shines through the darkness.