The documentary investigates the serial killer who is believed to have killed 21 young boys and one adult from the mid 80s to the mid-90s on the Cape Flats.
‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story’ is one of Netflix’s most watched shows right now, but one of the real-life men it is based on criticised it for being “disheartening slander”.
The official trailer for the French-language psychological thriller Red Rooms is here, offering a dark look at society’s obsession with true crime.
Fiona Harvey referred to the seven-episode series, which she admits she hadn’t seen, as “obscene,” “horrifying,” and “misogynistic” in its depiction of her character Martha.
It seems like yonks ago that the convicted ‘Facebook rapist’ Thabo Bester was spotted shopping at Woolworths after everyone was told he had burned to death in his prison cell.
Twenty-five years later, Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines travelled to Lonoke to re-examine the case and its connection to one of the largest sex abuse scandals in American history.
In 2016, when Maya Kowalski was 10 years old, she was rushed to the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, with an array of strange symptoms.
Newly discovered organisms rewrite history of life on Earth, Zuma loses bid to prosecute Karyn Maughan and Billy Downer, Britney Spears quits the business, and meet the SA stars heading to the World Para Athletics Championships.
‘How to Create a Sex Scandal’ reveals that the small-town paedophilia case that sent seven people to prison was, in fact, an elaborate scam.
Words like “hair-raising”, “bloodcurdling,” and “downright dreadful” have been used alongside a review of ‘The Clearing’.
Joining the Netflix true-crime canon is the brainwashed Lori Vallow, the “cult mom” in ‘Sins Of Our Mother.’
There’s a lot more devastation when it comes to the fading family who managed to amass power and wealth in South Carolina for over 100 years.
The South Carolina ex-lawyer stands accused of murder and elaborate cover-up schemes to protect his alleged financial fraud and prescription painkiller addiction.
The game itself is harmless but there’s a sinister story linked to its history that’s now under the spotlight.
Born in 1960, Charles Cullen had a miserable childhood – ding ding – as the youngest of eight siblings who had lost their parents pretty early on.
Jeffrey Dahmer kept a few horrendous souvenirs from his multiple killings, which included a series of infamous, and truly disturbing Polaroid photos that he kept next to his bed.
It turns out ‘DAHMER – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’ has been stirring a rather large, and incredibly disturbing pot on social media and the internet at large.
Not everybody thinks that there needed to be yet another show about a serial killer, paedophile, necrophiliac, and cannibal who murdered and dismembered 17 people over the span of 13 years.
The true-crime genre is often a way to gawk at the misfortune of others. Sometimes, though, a series or podcast can lift the lid and lead to actual change.
Besides passionately advocating to keep impossible beauty standards alive (unless you have a heap of money), Kim also likes to advocate for criminal justice reform.
It has been more than 40 years since Lynette Dawson went missing from her home on Sydney’s northern beaches. As one of Australia’s longest-running cold cases, her body has still never been found.
The series focuses on the true story of Anthony Templet, a teenager in Louisiana who shot and killed his father in June 2019.
When investigative journalist Matt Birkbeck looked at the eyes of the little girl who sat next to her father in that picture back in 2002, he immediately knew something was “terribly wrong”.
As the trailer for ‘Our Father’ shows, all it took was a DNA test and an unfortunate stop on Ancestry.com for his “children” to put it all together.
John Wayne Gacy murdered at least 30 young boys and men and earned the nickname ‘the Killer Clown’.
The Orlando Pirates goalkeeper, who also captained Bafana Bafana on a number of occasions, was gunned down in front of six eyewitnesses. It’s the sort of murder that has long been whispered about.
Out of the hundreds of true-crime series to watch these days, NBC’s satire ‘The Thing About Pam’ has a number of factors that make it stick out.
Olivia Colman and David Thewlis are a seemingly ordinary British couple who get caught up in an extraordinary murder investigation.
You’ve watched ‘Making a Murderer’ and those other high-profile true-crime series, but maybe these have flown under your radar.
This limited Netflix docuseries tries to answer some of the questions that were left unanswered after a grisly crime resulted in the death of 11 people all from the same family.