4 d. ago Netflix true crime thriller slammed by critics as ‘underwhelming’

An intriguing true crime thriller has shot to the top of the Netflix charts, but it has left critics divided

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4 d. ago Netflix’s ‘chilling’ murder mystery shoots to top of the charts despite ‘underwhelming’ reviews

A murder mystery film is currently at the top of Netflix’s movie chart - but is it worth watching?

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2 w. ago ‘A new form of mass murder’: the terrifying, twisty unsolved mystery of the Tylenol killer

One of the most shocking true crime stories of the 80s is re-investigated in Netflix docuseries Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders“You’ve got an old one, huh?” asks James Lewis, eyeing the bottle of Tylenol with suspicion.“No, just off the shelf today,” replies a voice off camera. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Netflix fans are binging new true crime documentary that's 'truly horrifying'

A new true crime documentary has landed on Netflix, and fans of the streaming service can't get enough as they're binging the docuseries, despite it being 'horrifying'

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2 w. ago Tiger King Joe Exotic pleads for Trump pardon after husband deported

Exotic, who is serving 21 years for murder-for-hire plot, urges president: ‘Just let me go to Mexico’Joe Exotic – star of the 2020 Netflix true crime documentary Tiger King – is publicly pleading for Donald Trump to pardon him from federal prison after his husband was deported to Mexico.“It’s really past time to have one of your people watch Tiger King Season 2, where they all admitted to perjury and a plot to kill me on world television and let me out,” Exotic, whose name is Joseph Allen Maldonado, wrote late on Sunday on social media to the president whom he has politically supported. “I know that you are not fond of my lifestyle, but I supported you just allow me go to Mexico with my husband.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Inside Netflix’s Fred and Rose West documentary: ‘There are huge, huge lessons here’

The director of the streamer’s latest ‘A British Horror Story’ series tells Ellie Harrison why he agreed to make a show about the husband-and-wife serial killers – and how he wanted to challenge the traditional true-crime audience

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3 w. ago ‘These murders still live with me’: the show that goes inside Fred and Rose West’s ‘house of horrors’

Featuring moving interviews from the relatives of victims and chilling new footage of a handcuffed Fred locating the bodies at Cromwell Street, a new Netflix documentary pushes the true crime genre to its limitDez Chambers waited 15 years to get the news she didn’t want. All that time, she thought her missing little sister, Alison, might still be out there. Dez would watch documentaries about homelessness to see if perhaps she’d recognise a face, and even attempted the Salvation Army’s family tracing service. “It was hope,” she says from her home in the Netherlands.Hope faded one day in 1994. Calling her from the UK, Dez’s mother-in-law cried down the phone. There was panic, there was confusion, “so I had to ask her. And then she said it was in the papers that the remains had been identified as Alison.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Who were the murderous couple behind the Gloucester's 'House of Horrors'? How sick Fred West grew up raping his sister before going on to marry his partner

A new Netflix true crime series is set to stream on the platform tomorrow, titled Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story. But who were the infamous serial killing couple?

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