True Crime Documentaries
The Body Next Door
This grisly true crime documentary series delves into the shocking case of a body discovered after 28 years of hiding in plain sight. In 2015, the sleepy Welsh village of Beddau was stunned when a prank involving a ‘medical skeleton’ revealed a dead body wrapped in plastic, setting the police on a global investigation to identify the victim. But who was responsible for the death?
Blackmailed: The Sextortion Killers
Sextortion – the sexual extortion of teens for profit is a fast-growing scam shattering lives around the world. Evan Boettler was 16 when he shot himself. Two hours before his death, an online predator tried to extort money from the Missouri teenager by threatening to release compromising photos of him. This hard-hitting documentary searches for Evan’s scammer on the streets of Lagos, Nigeria.
Lucan
It was a murder that obsessed a nation, and a disappearance that’s mystified police for 50 years. In 1974, the dead body of a children’s nanny was discovered in an opulent London home. The main suspect was the seventh earl of Lucan, who had disappeared and has never been found. But could the son of murder victim Sandra Rivett be about to solve the case of the fugitive Lord?
The Murder of Sandra Rivett
In 1974, an aristocratic household in London was at war as Lord and Lady Lucan fought bitterly over the custody of their children. One night, the couple’s nanny was murdered, while Lord Lucan vanished forever. This true crime documentary investigates why the hunt for Lucan has dominated the media for half a century, while the name of the victim, Sandra Rivett, has been forgotten.
The Killing Call
It was a killing that shocked India: Punjabi hip-hop legend Sidhu Moose Wala shot dead by hired hitmen in the pay of gangsters. Three years after the murder, the BBC investigates how one of India’s biggest music stars found himself on the wrong side of the country’s most feared gang—and asks the fugitive gangster who says he ordered the hit: why did he want Moose Wala dead?