AMERICA’S MOST OUTRAGEOUS
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This six-part documentary series, which will help launch the Sky Documentaries channel, details how former cop Jerome Jacobson was the mastermind behind a scam which saw $24 million (£19.5 million) being stolen from the Mcdonald’s Monopoly game over 12 years from 1989.
Now TV and Sky Documentaries, coming soon.
TIGER KING: MURDER, MAYHEM AND MADNESS
The action centres on gun-toting, gay, country singer Joe Exotic. He runs a zoo in Oklahoma, with lions and tigers.
The seven episodes reveal absurd details of his life and his plan to kill cat sanctuary boss Carole Baskin.
Netflix documentary.
THE STAIRCASE
This is the twisting story of how Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the foot of the stairs in the North Carolina home she shared with her husband, Michael in 2001. He was charged with murder and the 13-part series tells of his fight to clear his name.
Netflix documentary
THE ACT
Gypsy Rose Blanchard was the tragic girl who, according to her mother Dee Dee (played in this dramatisation of the true story by Patricia Arquette), had leukaemia, asthma, muscular dystrophy and more. Except Gypsy Rose was healthy, the illnesses made up by Dee Dee to get attention – so Gypsy Rose plotted a gruesome revenge.
Amazon drama
This is a powerful two-part series, produced in consultation with the murdered children’s relatives, about one of the most shocking crimes of the 20th century. It is the untold story of how child killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, played by Sean Harris and Maxine Peake, were finally caught and is based on two years of research involving interviews with detectives and key witnesses.
Amazon drama
WHO KILLED JONBENET RAMSEY?
Six-year-old beauty queen Jonbenet Ramsey was found dead in the basement of her Colorado home in 1996, eight hours after her parents reported her missing.
They and her brother Burke, then nine, were then subject to gossip that one of them killed her. This film has new footage of family members answering questions about her death.
Amazon documentary
DON’T ***K WITH CATS: HUNTING AN INTERNET KILLER
This astonishing three-part story is about obsession; both of a killer who wanted fame and notoriety, and the internet strangers who would spend two years tracking him down.
Netflix documentary
THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE
It might be titled The Assassination Of Gianni Versace, but the multi-awardwinning series which was originally shown on BBC2, isn’t really about the fashion designer whose brutal murder shocked the world in 1997, but his enigmatic killer Andrew Cunanan.
Versace was Cunanan’s fifth murder in the space of three months. He’s in the subset of serial killers called a spree killer – someone who kills in a frenzied way in a short space of time.
THREE GIRLS
This three-part drama pulls no punches in its criticism of those who allowed girls in a Lancashire town to be groomed and raped by men, some of whom were old enough to be their grandfathers. Three Girls shows the police and social services failing to investigate multiple allegations of rape because – it is claimed – they thought the victims would be unreliable witnesses when the cases against the Britishpakistani men came to court.
BBC iplayer and Netflix drama
AMANDA KNOX
In November 2007 in Perugia, Italy, British student Meredith Kercher was discovered semi-naked and with her neck cut. This one-off looks at what happened next, focusing on the arrest and incarceration of her American flatmate Amanda Knox and Knox’s Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, and the mistakes made by Italian prosecutors. Knox and Sollecito were later acquitted.
Netflix documentary
DIRTY JOHN
John Meehan is a charming pschopath who made a career out of conning women and stealing drugs. ‘This was a pretty unique opportunity as the story was so fascinating,’ said Eric Bana of his first TV role.
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