I’m watching the Oscar Pistorius documentary on iPlayer. Quite deep into episode 1. I have listened quite extensively to the Casefile podcast in the past - which is superb, but haven’t listened to that for a good while.
True Crime documentaries, recommendations and discussion please.
I don’t mean that facetiously - there’s a story worth telling. It could just be Northern stoicism, but it’s universally forgotten in the area, despite being the biggest gun massacre in the UK in this century.
We’re watching The Vow on Now TV at the moment, it’s about the NXIVM (nex-ium) pyramid scheme / sex cult.
The format is a little… uh art cinema for my tastes, particularly in terms of chronology, but it’s really interesting - particularly coming off a rewatch of Battlestar Galactica cos a couple of the cast are were, and continue to be, involved.
Also there’s absolutely loads of great first-hand footage, partly because of the nature of the organisation and their business, but also because one of the main guys who left was a documentary filmmaker who’d clearly been shooting stuff there for years.
Oh, true crime docs are my THING.
It’s youtubers you want to get into, there’s a few I can recommend that are great. Eleanor Neale, etc.
Apparently there’s a 70/30 split towards women, as in we’re much more likely to watch/listen to true crime stuff to “relax”, and there’s a psychological reason! So, the theory is that we’re so frightened all the time and assume everyone wants to hurt us that we watch these things to get tips to spot a potential predator, so we listen to these things not only to be like “oh, my situation could be worse” but also to help us try and spot the signs.
The Staircase
Paradise Lost trilogy (quite graphic at times from what I remember)
The Jinx
Outcry
Mommy Dead and Dearest
Tower
The Imposter
Serial - Season 1 (podcast)
In Your Own Back Yard (podcast)
Anyway, sorry,
Elanor Neale
Bella Fiori
Georgia Marie (she’s fine but not amazing, good to fall asleep to)
Kendall Rae (she’s amazing tbf, does such in depth rewatch and isn’t biased or anything!)
All of their videos range from twenty minutes to over an hour
The latest one about the Night Crawler was exactly this. Only 4 episodes but could have been done in 2 if there wasn’t loads of shots of the detective in a bar mulling over a drink
The 24 Hours In Police Custody episode called “The Detective and the Surgeon” is brilliant if you need a bit of light relief from all the murders and more serious crimes.
I’m halfway through the BBC 5 Live Paradise podcast, which has been soundtracking my daily walks this week. Pretty twisty so far although I don’t know how it’s going to end… Find the NI host/interviewer very creepy though
Halfway through the Ripper at the moment. I regaled my wife with the fact that Les Battersby was a suspect before we started and then it turned out that he just discovered a body.