16 h. ago Where Malcolm Fairley now as Netflix true crime series tops most

Manhunt: Chasing The Fox is now available to watch on Netflix and tells the story of Malcolm Fairley who became known as The Fox.

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16 h. ago Where Malcolm Fairley is now as Netflix true crime series tops most

Manhunt: Chasing The Fox is now available to watch on Netflix and tells the story of Malcolm Fairley who became known as The Fox.

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17 h. ago Netflix's 'insane' true crime series replaces The Beast In Me as chart topper

Netflix fans are flocking to watch a gripping true crime documentary that's now the number one most watched show in the UK.

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17 h. ago Is The Widower based on a true story? Gripping crime drama shoots up Netflix chart

The chilling three-part series starring Sheridan Smith and Reece Shearsmith has been a surprise hit on Netflix

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21 h. ago Inside Netflix true crime documentary series Missing: Dead or Alive as fans question if it's real

The second series of the true crime documentary series Missing: Dead or Alive? has now dropped on Netflix

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48 h. ago Murder Inc: how my failed attempt to make a Zodiac Killer film took me to the dark heart of the true crime industry

When my quest to make a cliche-free film about one of America’s most notorious cold cases fell apart, I ended up investigating something entirely different – our own morbid curiosityIf you think true crime is inescapable when you’re browsing Netflix or making small talk with your co-workers, try working in the documentary industry. As you traipse from one commissioning meeting to the next, pitching your passion project on the history of mime or the secret life of snails, you can almost hear the words before they’re spoken: “Got any other ideas?” Preferably something with a body count.I had just begun making documentaries in 2015, when the double whammy of HBO’s The Jinx and Netflix’s Making a Murderer brought true crime back to the dead centre of popular culture. Positioned as social justice projects as much as murder mysteries, those shows seemed to herald a new beginning for the genre. Soon enough, though, they gave way to a steady stream of interchangeable offerings, many of them...

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4 d. ago ITV I'm A Celebrity star dramatically storms off in new Netflix true crime doc

Netflix has released the trailer for a new true crime documentary which features an unexpected appearance from a "legendary" TV personality.

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6 d. ago Nathan Carman now: Where is Nathan from The Carman Family Deaths?

The Carman Family Deaths is the latest true crime documentary to land on Netflix and it tells the chilling story of a mother and son who went missing on a fishing trip

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6 d. ago Calls for public inquiry into 'catastrophic failure in border security' which allowed a failed asylum seeker to murder an innocent restaurant owner

Somalian national Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur, 47, plunged a knife into the chest of Gurvinder Singh Johal, 37, four months after his asylum application was rejected.

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6 d. ago The most astonishing theatre performance of the year? Jack Holden on his true crime sensation Kenrex

Jack Holden caused a stir earlier this year with his one-man true crime drama Kenrex - as it returns in December at a bigger venue he tells us about the story behind a remarkable piece of theatre

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7 d. ago 'Prison of the celebrities' and horrifying true crimes behind Amazon Prime hit

Amazon Prime's latest true-crime hit delves deep into one of the Americas' most notorious prisons - the same jail where footballer Robinho is currently serving time

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7 d. ago Child killers, rapists and footballers housed inside 'celebrity prison' now on Amazon Prime

Prime Video's latest true-crime series takes viewers inside one of the Americas' most notorious prisons

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7 d. ago Football icon, fertility rapist and murderous heiress behind bars in 'celebrity prison'

Amazon Prime's latest true-crime hit delves deep into one of the Americas' most notorious prisons

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9 d. ago I saw the dark heart of lawless Britain at a west London car boot sale

I saw the dark heart of lawless Britain at a west London car boot sale  The Telegraph

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1 week ago Review into safeguarding failures ‘shows Sara Sharif’s murder was preventable’

Despite a ‘great deal of information’ available to various authorities during her lifetime, Sara ‘was not protected from abuse and torture’.

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1 week ago We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir by Anthony Hopkins review – a legend with a temper

The Oscar-winning actor’s autobiography combines vulnerability with bloody mindedness and belligerenceIt’s the greatest entrance in movie history – and he doesn’t move a muscle.FBI rookie Clarice Starling must walk along the row of cells until she reaches Dr Lecter’s reinforced glass tank, where the man himself is simply standing, his face a living skull of satanic malice, eerily immobile in his form-fitting blue prison jumpsuit – immobile, that is, until such time as he launches himself against the glass, making that extraordinary hissing-slavering sound. A billion true-crime documentaries have since revealed that actual serial killers are very boring, with nothing like Anthony Hopkins’s screen presence. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'Gripping' true crime series about notorious Scots killer lands on Netflix

The three-part series Netflix with David Tennant playing the Scots serial killer is now streaming on Netflix

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2 w. ago Caroline Flack: Search For The Truth review — A repellant true crime framing of a tragedy

Raking over the TV presenter’s final moments to try and find conspiracy is gruesome buisiness

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2 w. ago Caroline Flack: Search For The Truth review — A repellent true crime framing of a tragedy

Raking over the TV presenter’s final moments to try and find conspiracy is gruesome buisiness

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2 w. ago Brits shun gritty modern dramas for classics like Murder, She Wrote and Diagnosis Murder

Despite the dominance of intense true crime dramas and documentaries, many Brits are changing the channel to find a crime show that's more wholesome and classic

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