Crime documentary discussion thread

[Sandyclaws]

Did anyone watch the unknown caller catfish on Netflix???? I couldnt believe the outcome

 

[Be More Pacific]

I watch a lot of true crime but not really documentaries - mainly week on week series to be honest, via a guy who uploads all the latest stuff to a Russian website #iykykaiydkgtk My favs are Cold Justice, The First 48, Dateline, 48 Hours, On The Case with Paula Zahn, See No Evil/Murder on CCTV plus loads more.

But I have just finished the new Sky three part documentary Death of a Showjumper. I don't follow cases in Northern Ireland but I was aware of this one. Worth a watch.

Whilst I'm here, I'd also highly recommend the Murder Trial series available on BBC iPlayer. There's five of them in total (so far) and they all feature real court footage in Scotland, where they are allowed to film, along with interviews with the families, barristers, judges etc. I highly approve of this approach - edited highlights after verdict.

No doubt I'll be back!

 

[Lukeal70]

For anyone thinking of watching Should I Marry a Murderer on Netflix .
You may have potentially already seen it .. it was on the BBC last year . The 2 parter is called The Vanishing Cyclist

BBC Scotland - Murder Case, The Vanishing Cyclist, Episode 1

One phone call changes everything as dark secrets emerge in the hunt for Tony Parsons.

www.bbc.co.uk

eTA - it is a slightly different take on the case. The focus is different .

Came here looking to see if anyone had watched it.
I knew the story as I remember following it in the press & watched the BBC show last year.
You're right that the focus is different. How did she manage to make that poor man's murder all about herself ? Even the title was all about her.
She was undoubtedly in a terrible situation but she seemed to thrill at being at the centre of it all. She clearly ended up with serious mental health issues, if she didn't have them to begin with. Really feel for her parents.

 

[Tula]

Just finished Death Cap: The Mushroom Murders on Netflix. Had already watched a YouTube doc on this case but thought this one was really well done and showed a huge amount of respect to the victims.

 

[HitchhikingGhost]

I watched Twisted Sisters on Channel 5s YouTube channel. About the two sisters who ran into the motorway, survived and then one of them ended up a stabbing a man who tried to help a few days later.

I had never heard of this case before. The footage is pretty raw as the police were being filmed for Traffic Cops when they get called to the sisters. So you do see everything. I couldn't get over how they both got hit and then one of them got up and had the strength to run from police and into the traffic again and then physically fought off officers. Almost felt non human

 

[Kitty kat 20]

Anyone watch The Carman Family Deaths on Netflix?

I just watched it and it's Interesting. I do think he did them all though.

 

[Not Now Bernard]

I got Fred Dinnage mixed up with Fred Dibnah - I was very confused there (showing my age)

 

[Tula]

I’ve just watched The Perfect Neighbor on Netflix. Highly recommended.

 

[retroretro]

It is from 2015, but did anyone ever watch Making a Murderer on Netflix about Steven Avery? I've gone back and forth with this for years now and I still don't know what to fully make of it. I'm not sure if it's still on Netflix (I cancelled my subscription a few months ago) but there is stuff about him on YouTube still.

 

[LilPinkie]

Has anyone watched the crash ? On Netflix? I don’t know what to think

I do. Manipulative little bitch.

 

[Meringue22]

The real CSI is back next month on BBC ONE. New series starts 1 March. I love this programme!

 

[MissTeddy]

The Mother of all Cons on iPlayer.

Remind me again why Münchausen by Proxy isn't a crime of abuse carrying a sentence?

I have only just watched this and oh my goodness I am gobsmacked… there were so many WTF moments - the key one for me being the low flying prop plane over the Atlantic. That poor pilot put his life in danger and had the most traumatic experience that still haunts him. The whole thing was just extraordinary.

 

[LilPinkie]

I genuinely don’t lnow if you could say that this was calculated on Kenzies part .. manslaughter definately. The spanner for me is Davion - this takes away the idea that it was a love pact death or Kenzie deciding she wanted to hurt Dom.. I can see how the weed could have affected her driving .. but it does t make sense that it was fine to start and then all of a sudden she is doing 100mph..

I do not buy the “ I had a medical emergency “ - if this was the case then surely would be some signs prior to this . One swerve at the wheel is not enough to convince me - this could easily have been Kenzie and Dom arguing - and the wheel was pulled or she lost control for a minute.. also why no slowing down at all? Muscles would relax if she lost consciousness??

Interesting that the lawyer was sat in on the interview - he was obviously coaching her . She came across as insincere when being asked questions. Suspect that she might try and appeal again and doesn’t want to drop herself in the shit. I got the impression that Kenzie thinks of herself of some kind of “ home girl “ with the stupid hairdo she had. The weed smoking etc ..

Dom was def dealing - unless his parents were extra rich or other option was he was shoplifting the stuff . Davion is the outlier in the planned to murder theory. I didn’t pick up anything to suggest that she’d want to hurt her friends - she came across as a very silly teenage girl who has had zero parental guidance in her life and therefore has no boundaries .

I don’t think she planned it. I think she threw a tantrum of rage and didn’t stop to consider the consequences. I think she thought herself untouchable and was never taught to be responsible for her actions. She’s a very narcissistic, spoilt individual who has learned nothing. The “little girl lost”, wide-eyed innocent look is all a manipulative act.

 

[Upintheair83]

Has anyone watched Maternal instinct on Netflix!?? What the hell have I just watched! It's completely mental, too awful for words!

 

[TapToBoreMeRigid]

There's a third in the latest series of The Real CSI on BBC tonight. It's already on iPlayer.

 

[rivermonster]

I watch a lot of true crime but not really documentaries - mainly week on week series to be honest, via a guy who uploads all the latest stuff to a Russian website #iykykaiydkgtk My favs are Cold Justice, The First 48, Dateline, 48 Hours, On The Case with Paula Zahn, See No Evil/Murder on CCTV plus loads more.

But I have just finished the new Sky three part documentary Death of a Showjumper. I don't follow cases in Northern Ireland but I was aware of this one. Worth a watch.

Whilst I'm here, I'd also highly recommend the Murder Trial series available on BBC iPlayer. There's five of them in total (so far) and they all feature real court footage in Scotland, where they are allowed to film, along with interviews with the families, barristers, judges etc. I highly approve of this approach - edited highlights after verdict.

No doubt I'll be back!

I have also watched the Murder Trial series on IPlayer.
I can't watch the C4 In Footsteps of Killers with Emilia Fox - I don't like how her and David Wilson interact with each other, don't know if it is their voices but I find them quite false.

 

[Melian]

Another poster mentioned doing one in the crime and murder thread

When you do post a documentary please can you also the streaming service / channel it's on? Thank you. I am aware that some documentaries will be repeated on more than one channel

Currently I'm binging Banged up abroad which is about people being caught doing illegal stuff abroad. It's usually drug smuggling but there are countries where alcohol and homosexuality is illegal.

Its on the My5 streaming service.

 

[Tryger88]

Did she mean to crash, most probably, but for anyone to die....., probably not!

I also watched tonight,

Spoiler: Spoiler

going 100 mph into a brick wall/building? Of course she wanted them to die!
In the heat of the moment, she went batshit crazy in my opinion, even if it meant her own life.
It seems her parents didn't raise her very well. They had no problems with her taking drugs and believed her innocence when she got in trouble at school.
I feel so sorry for the family who sat with her parents on the first day in court.

 

[Lars Guinard]

Do many of you fall asleep to True Crime documentaries?
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Is there a particular Crime documentary/case you can watch over again or have watched more than once?

 

[BobbyBoos]

Personally I don’t think the prosecution did go over the top showing her tiktoks. Was showing how she behaved after what she did. Was showing her true character.

As for her parents. They must have blinkers on.

Her mum was awful!! Especially when she said that Davion was just a new friend. That’s a terrible thing to say in front of his parents! Her dad was awful too, that boom t-shirt he was wearing was out of order. They were questionable, who lets their teenage daughter move in with her twenty year old boyfriend? And her friend was awful too!

I’ve watched something on this before and the Netflix doc left a lot out, she’d driven that route 3 days before. She knew what she was doing; and still now she’s shown no remorse. She only cares about herself.