Carles Porta, the director and narrator of the ‘podcast’, the Catalunya Ràdio program and the TV-3 program ‘Crims’ watches a lot of ‘true crime’ due to professional deformation, but not everything is interesting to him. However, he highlights four works that are his favorites: ‘Making a murderer’, ‘The jink’, ‘Death in Leon’ and ‘The John Wayne Gacy tapes‘. The other four ‘docuseries’ that appear below correspond to upcoming releases.
Documentary with two seasons of 10 episodes each that explores the Steven Avery Story, a guy from Wisconsin who was 18 years in jail for the sexual assault and attempted murder of a woman. He was later exonerated by a DNA test and filed a lawsuit against officials. And they returned it to him, linking it to another murder. It is an original series of Netflix, that can be seen on the platform.
One of the most enigmatic and addictive crime documentaries that recounts a case that inspired Andrew Jarecki’s film ‘All Good Things’: that of Robert Dursta suspected millionaire heir to the disappearance of a womanr. After the premiere of the film, Durst called Jarecki to give his version of the events, and he captured it in a six-part miniseries. When the last one was broadcast, he was arrested for another murder. Available on HBO Max.
Porta highlights this documentary for having a delicacy and a narrative purity Very powerful. The story narrated in the miniseries by Briton Justin Webster is the trial for the murder of the President of the Provincial Council of León Isabel Carrasco, which occurred in May 2014, which changed the lives of four women. can be seen in RTVE Play (free). And on HBO Max ‘Death in León. Case closed’, the final chapter in the form of a documentary feature film.
‘THE JOHN WAYNE GACY TAPES’
known as ‘The killer clown’, John Wayne Gacy was an American assassin who dressed up as a clown for parades and children’s parties and who violo and killed 33 young men between 1972 and 1978. Most of them were buried in the basement of his house. Until he couldn’t fit any more. He was inspired by Stephen King to write your cult book ‘It’. Joe Berlinger (Emmy award winner and Oscar nominee) has captured this terrifying story in a miniseries of three chapters, after the discovery of 60 hours of chilling footage between Wayne and his lawyers. premiered this year on netflix.
‘MADELEINE MCCANN. PRINCIPALSUSPECT’
Coinciding with the 15th anniversary of the disappearance of little Madeleine McCann in Portugal and just when the German pedophile Christian Brueckner has just been indicted by the Portuguese justice system, the television channel AMC Crime premieres this three-episode documentary miniseries on the case on Tuesday, 3 (11:00 p.m.). the old detective Mark Williams-Thomas undertakes the first active British TV investigation into Christian Bruckner and, in a world exclusive, reviews his statement. AMC Crime can be seen on payment platforms such as Movistar Plus+, Vodafone TV and Orange TV, among others.
‘DO NOT TELL ANYBODY’
The Atresmedia payment platform, Atresplayer Premium, delves into the production of true crime docuseries with this five-part miniseries which was originally going to be called ‘Kisses Marvin’. The protagonist is Patrick Nogueira, a 19-year-old Brazilian he murdered his uncles and little cousins in its Pioz’s house (Guadalajara), in the summer of 2016, and shared his crime through by WhatsApp with his best friend, Marvin Enriques, 17. It will premiere in Atresplayer Premium.
Flooxer, the youth channel of Atresmedia, is preparing ‘Crimes Online’, a documentary series starring Samantha Hudsonwhich focuses on criminal activities on the net and crimes bizarre and truculent counting on their own victims and on the justification of their acts by criminals. It mixes the usual ‘true crime’ code with a touch of humor and surrealism. It can be seen before Atresplayer Premium.Maybe this summer. Then in Flooxer.
HBO Max premieres on Friday, 6, the series ‘The Starcaise’starring Colin Firth, which recounts the case in which he investigated the docuseries of the same name by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade (winner of the 2002 Oscar for Best Documentary Film with ‘Murder on a Sunday Morning: that of a accused novelist to murder his wife. The French ‘docuseries’, made up of 13 episodesrecorded in 2004 and then between 2013 and 2018, can be seen complete on netflix. Perhaps better after watching the HBO Max series, because it shows the outcome.