22 h. ago Netflix's Adolescence dethroned as true crime show becomes most

Netflix's true-crime documentary, Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer, has officially become the most-watched series on the streaming platform across the world

Events

25 h. ago Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold review: the real Cora Crippen

The author of The Five, about the Ripper murders, turns her attention to another tragically misunderstood victimIn the canon of British true crime, the case of Dr Crippen routinely gets billed as the first “modern” murder. It wasn’t that there was anything particularly original about the doctor’s motives or methods: in January 1910 he slipped poison into his wife’s bedtime drink so that he could marry his secretary instead. Rather, it was the way that Crippen was caught that turned this run-of-the-mill suburban love triangle into an international cause célèbre.Realising that it would only be a matter of time before his wife’s dismembered remains were discovered in the cellar of the marital home in north London, Crippen and his secretary Ethel Le Neve fled to Canada in disguise. Such was the media hoopla surrounding the case that the sharp-eyed captain of the SS Montrose quickly spotted the runaway lovers among his passengers. This was despite their unconvincing cover story...

Events

35 h. ago Netflix Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer – Where is Rex Heuermann now?

A new Netflix true crime documentary delves into the Long Island Serial Killer case, which has remained unsolved for 13 years - here's everything you need to know about the case

Events

37 h. ago Netflix fans demand 'stop what you're doing' and watch 'chilling' serial killer doc

Netflix has released a chilling new true crime documentary series that has left viewers in tears

Events

4 d. ago Family pay tribute to 'true gentleman' after alleged road rage van death

Paul Bowles, 50, died at the scene in Broadway, Chadderton on Wednesday

Events

4 d. ago The Five author Hallie Rubenhold: ‘I really hate true crime’

The award-winning writer turned the Jack the Ripper case on its head. Now she is giving Dr Crippen the same treatment – and questioning how we tell stories about murderous menIt was called “the crime of the century” and “the north London cellar murder”, and more than 100 years after it happened, the name of the murderer is still widely known. Dr Crippen has been the subject of multiple books, movies and TV shows and had a waxwork made of him at Madame Tussauds. But the story of his crimes, writes Hallie Rubenhold in Story of a Murder, remains one “predominantly about women but told almost exclusively by men”. As such, Crippen’s victim is long forgotten. Her name was Belle Elmore, and in Rubenhold’s book she is brought back to life.Rubenhold and I are in a cafe in Muswell Hill, north London, a 10 minute walk from where Elmore is buried, and where the 53-year-old author lives with her barrister husband, Frank. Writing Story of a Murder was nerve-racking, says Rubenhold, partly because...

Events

7 d. ago Netflix's Con Mum star Graham Hornigold's life now after shocking documentary

Netflix's Con Mum is a true crime story about how popular pastry chef, Graham Hornigold, was scammed out of money after a woman contacted him claiming to be his long lost mother

Events

1 week ago Happy Face review – Dennis Quaid is a grinning caricature in this shoddy, half

This (sort of) true-crime series about a real-life serial killer’s daughter is deeply disappointing TV – even before you factor in the terrible script and flat actingPerhaps, like politicians’ careers, all intellectual property must eventually end in failure. You begin in one medium – a viral video on social media, perhaps, which brings your story to the attention of the masses and the makers of a podcast; then on to a streamed drama or documentary, maybe knocking out a book on the subject as you go. But eventually it hits a wall. The new translation doesn’t work, it’s running on empty, it doesn’t capture interest, the moment has passed. People get bored, they move on, and that’s the end of your IP’s journey.The new true-crime drama Happy Face, created by Jennifer Cacicio and executive-produced by the mighty Robert and Michelle King (The Good Wife, The Good Fight, Evil, Elsbeth), began life as a book – Shattered Silence, the 2009 autobiography of Melissa Moore, in which sh...

Politics

1 week ago Netflix Mindhunter and Monsters fans told their 'next TV obsession' has arrived

One fan described the true crime show as a 'delicious binge worthy' watch

Politics

2 w. ago Dennis Quaid is brilliantly creepy in true crime serial killer thriller Happy Face

This gripping Paramount+ series avoids most of the pitfalls surrounding true crime and podcast adaptations

Events

2 w. ago The Alto Knights review – double De Niro makes for a laborious true

The actor plays Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, two warring mob bosses in 1950s New York, in a caper that lacks the richness of its writer’s earlier Goodfellas‘They’re the same – he’s marrying himself!” The speaker is an aghast Bobbie Costello, played by Debra Messing, addressing her shruggingly detached mob boss husband, Frank Costello, played by Robert De Niro. They are guests at the wedding of mercurial club owner Anna (Kathrine Narducci) to Frank’s hot-tempered mafia associate Vito Genovese. And Vito is played by Robert De Niro.This film is a laborious true-crime account of Frank and Vito’s homicidal falling out in 1950s New York, directed by Barry Levinson and written by Nicholas Pileggi, though with little of the perspective, light and shade and narrative richness of Pileggi’s earlier scripts. As Vito, De Niro is gloweringly resentful, taciturn, bad-tempered and wears glasses and a hat. As Frank, De Niro is gloweringly resentful, taciturn, slightly less bad-tempered and does...

Politics

2 w. ago Happy Face: this drama about a serial killer’s daughter is so mind

At times, this true-crime drama feels like a meta satire of an industry that milks private pain for entertainment. It is, however, no such thing You know the feeling: you’re watching a shocking docudrama about a toxic waste scandal, or the baseless prosecution of 555 sub-postmasters, or the fraudulent founder of a blood-testing biotech company, and you start thinking – did this all really happen? So you do some digging online. Usually, it turns out there has been a mild massaging of the truth in the name of narrative efficiency: a couple of characters conflated, a timeline slightly rejigged. Only very occasionally (once?) will a case of dramatic licence result in a hysterical media storm, a global debate about the ethics of dramatisation and Netflix being hit with a $170m lawsuit. And yet it is almost unheard of to settle down to watch a series based on real events – or, in the case of Paramount+’s Happy Face (from Thursday 20 March), “inspired by a true life story” – and be confron...

Events

2 w. ago Judge formally sentences Adnan Syed to time served in Serial murder case

Syed, convicted of 1999 murder and jailed for life, maintains innocence in long-running case of legal twists and turnsA Maryland judge has formally sentenced Adnan Syed to the time he has already served in prison, appearing to finally bring to a close a long-running case with numerous legal twists and turns that received worldwide attention from the true-crime podcast Serial.Judge Jennifer Schiffer had already decided that Syed would remain free in a recent written ruling, even though his conviction in the murder of his ex-girlfriend in 1999 when they were in high school still stands. Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago The Residence to Happy Face: the seven best shows to stream this week

A quirky whodunnit set in the White House starring Uzo Aduba, plus Dennis Quaid and Annaleigh Ashford head up a very meta true-crime show – and The Simpsons send up the White LotusWickedness in the White House? Who would believe it! This series from Shondaland is a quirky whodunnit about a mysterious death at the heart of US power. Uzo Aduba stars as Cordelia Cupp, a brilliant, eccentric detective who is charged with unpicking the details. As the body of the building’s chief usher is discovered, a state dinner is in full swing. Soon, Cupp (a keen birder whose binoculars come in handy for professional reasons too) brings searching questions and inconvenient truths to the occasion. It’s a gently comic genre piece; essentially a country house murder mystery with West Wing bells on. And it’s great fun, largely thanks to Aduba’s wry central performance. Netflix, from Thursday 20 March Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago Netflix fans all watching 'crazy' true crime documentary with 'wild claims'

It is already one of the most-watched titles among subscribers

Events

3 w. ago Tragic story of EastEnders star brutally murdered and chopped up before cruel twist

An EastEnders actress went missing, and what followed was a story of betrayal and lies from one of her own family, and the case is being revisited in a true crime documentary tonight

Events

3 w. ago Disturbing Charles Manson documentary leaves Netflix fans begging for one thing

Chaos: The Manson Murders was recently released on Netflix and true crime fans are urging fellow streamers to do one simple thing after watching the in-depth investigation

Politics

3 w. ago Candy: A Death in Texas chilling true crime show recounts mum who hacked pal to death

Candy Montgomery and Betty Grove's small argument escalated into a violent axe murder.

Events

3 w. ago Who was EastEnders star Gemma McCluskie and what happened to her brother after brutal murder?

The death of the soap actress will be explored in ITV documentary Murder in the Family: True Crime Presents

Events

3 w. ago 'Punch' review — James Graham's shattering play based on the true story of a one

'Punch' review — James Graham's shattering play based on the true story of a one-punch crime  LondonTheatre.co.uk

Politics