IN COLD BLOOD: DIL MAANGE GORE?

Murders screen that explore chilling A look at shows on the small carried out with meticulous detail and planning

INDIAN PREDATOR: THE DIARY OF A SERIAL KILLER

The crimes committed by Raja Kolander, a man accused of ritualistic cannibalism and 15 murders, form the basis for the show. The three-part documentary series opens with the case of journalist Dheerendra Singh. Singh’s headless body was discovered after he had been missing for several days, prompting a police investigation and resulting in the discovery of the Kolander’s diary. The diary revealed the killer’s confessions about his heinous crimes and his animosity toward the system.

CANDY

The series is based on the life of Candy Montgomery, a Texas housewife who was charged with murdering her neighbour Betty Gore in 1980. The two grew close to each other, but , things started to go awry when Candy allegedly began an affair with Betty’s husband Allen. Gore was later discovered dead in her apartment. The neighbours first believed Gore had been shot, but it was later found that she had suffered 41 stab wounds that were made using an axe.

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Aftab Amin Poonawalla’s admission that he was inspired by the American television series Dexter to murder his girlfriend Shraddha Walkar kicked up quite a stir on the internet. Suddenly, shows and series that depict crimes in gory, meticulous detail were held as offering a blueprint for rare, heinous crimes. We look at five works that recreated historical crimes that shocked the public in the midst of the ongoing discussion.

The three-part miniseries is based on the 1983 arrest of the Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen, who was apprehended following the discovery of human remains that had blocked a drain near his home. The notorious killer admitted to murdering 15 young men in London in the 1980s. He would strangle his victims to death or drown them. After a few days, he would dissect the bodies and either burn them or boil the remains before flushing them down the toilet.

TED BUNDY: FALLING FOR A KILLER

The documentary series follows the crimes of probably the most notorious murderer in history, Ted Bundy. Often pretending to be hurt or in need of assistance as a ruse to lure young women, Bundy would then kidnap, rape and murder them brutally. Though several films and series have been made in the past around his crimes, Falling for a Killer presented the story from the perspective of the victims along with that of Bundy’s closest acquaintances.

DAHMER – MONSTER: THE JEFFREY DAHMER STORY Terrorising the US for well over a decade, Jeffrey Dahmer is easily one of the most hated serial killers in the country’s history. The show tells the story primarily from the perspectives of his victims. From 1978 to 1991, the Milwaukee Monster killed 17 adult and minor males, later mutilating their bodies, along with committing several sexual crimes and engaging in cannibalism.