Who Is The Killer In True Detective: Night Country?

Making a minor character like Bee such a crucial part of the murder mystery is a tried and tested "True Detective" tactic that can be traced to Season 1, where Errol Childress (Glenn Fleshler) turns up fairly early but isn't revealed as the killer until late in the game. Clearing prime suspect Raymond Clark from the Tsalal deaths but revealing him and his colleagues as Annie's murderers is a neat twist, as well. But does this mean that the various supernatural elements in the show are mere misdirections? 

Yes and no. The two cases Danvers and Navarro investigate might be all-too-human tragedies, but "True Detective: Night Country" nigh-constantly insinuates that Ennis is experiencing "Twin Peaks" levels of strangeness. Rose Aguineau (Fiona Shaw) is adamant that the area is uncomfortably close to the spirit world. What's more, so many different people experience unexplained phenomena that it's hard to write all isolated incidents off as imaginary. Whether these are actual ghosts or simply the show's depictions of the various characters' anguish is, of course, up for debate.   

Even if many of them aren't connected to Annie's death or the Tsalal case, recurring strange incidents like the oranges, the polar bear, the increasingly eerie spirals, and the numerous sightings of dead loved ones all indicate that something strange is afoot. Perhaps future seasons of the series will explain more about these mysteries ... though judging by "True Detective's" track record of downplaying its strangest aspects, fans probably shouldn't hold their breath.