True Crime Documentaries

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We all leave a digital footprint. Now they’ve become a critical forensic key to solving murder. Telling the inside stories of three individual landmark murder investigations, this ground-breaking true crime documentary follows detectives and digital forensics experts as they track suspects via their virtual trails. This is a new type of criminal chase, fueled by the traces of our high-tech lives.
Murder In A Teacup

When colleagues at a photographic equipment supplier started falling ill, many believed there was something harmful in the firm’s water supply. But when two men suffered slow and painful deaths, foul play was suspected. This true crime documentary looks at the case of the Teacup Poisoner, a young man with a violent and toxic past that the authorities mistakenly believed had been rehabilitated.
The Murder of Molly McLaren: Social Media Murders

Molly McLaren met Joshua Stimpson on romance app Tinder. In 2017, after dating briefly then separating, he was responsible for her death. An avid social media user, Molly documented their relationship online, but these sites not only played a role in bringing them together, but also allowed the killer to track her movements. To what extent was social media responsible for this despicable crime?
The Interview: Yulia Navalnaya

Alexei Navalny was President Putin’s most vocal critic. Poisoned by a deadly nerve agent and later jailed in Russia, Navalny died in February 2024 in one of the country’s most brutal penal colonies. As his memoir, Patriot, is published-including never-before-seen prison diaries-his wife Yulia tells their story to the BBC and explains why she would like to be President of Russia.
Face Down: The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer

The story of how one man’s abduction by terrorists from his Belfast home in December 1973 resulted in decades of trauma for generations of his family, with tragic consequences. This compelling documentary follows the last remaining relatives of Thomas Neidermayer, as they uncover the shocking truth behind the events of 50 years ago involving terrorism, politics and murder in Northern Ireland.