True Crime Mania

Between 1979 and 1983, the city experienced one of its darkest episodes: several disturbing disappearances of children were reported, most of them little boys under the age of ten. Despite the search by the police, the predator or predators remain elusive.

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Catherine Cesnik was a Catholic nun. On 3 January 1970, her body was found in a rubbish dump following a blow to the skull. Prior to her murder, Cesnik had been trying to help students at her school who had allegedly been abused by the priest. Did her death have anything to do with the sexual abuse? 

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In 1984, Fritzl Josef, a sick monster, lured his 18-year-old daughter, Elisabeth, into his cellar where he drugged and raped her repeatedly for 24 years. From these incestuous unions seven children were born who only saw the sunlight for the first time in 2008.

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First, Audrey Marie Hilley murdered her husband Frank Hilley and almost got away with it until she tried to kill her daughter. Then she jumped bail and avoided capture for years, but was finally arrested when she faked her own death.

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Coming from a poor background and suffering from blindness, Baba Vanga began to have visions at a very early age, which were considered disturbing by those around her. But the predictions of the "Nostradamus of the Balkans" will become more and more disturbing. Who was Baba Vanga really? A mystic? A superstitious peasant woman manipulated by the Politburo or simply a woman born with a unique gift for clairvoyance?

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Midsi Sanchez was on her way to her 8th birthday party when she was kidnapped by Curtis Dean Anderson, who killed 13 other girls, in August 2000. Anderson asked little Midsi for help reaching into his car, so he grabbed her and held her captive for two days, sexually assaulting her...

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This is not a single crime, but 28 murders: Twenty-eight people, men, women and children shot in a series of hold-ups and robberies in Belgium. These people were killed by a gang that was never identified: the Brabant Mad Killers. Who were these killers?

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The Blair Witch Project is about three film students who set out to investigate the legend of a witch who has haunted the Black Hills forest for centuries. Everything leads us to believe that the film is a decoy and that the events took place exactly as they did on the big screen! But beyond the urban legend, what is really going on? Where does the fiction end and the real story begin, the one rarely told?

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Franklin Delano Floyd is an American murderer, rapist and death row inmate. He was convicted of murder and child abduction. Incidentally, his wife was kidnapped by Floyd at a young age... It's a chilling crime story. So if you have an uncomfortable fascination with criminal minds, this story is for you!

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His name was John Joubert and he was a master of deception. Joubert rose to the highest rank in the BSA, before becoming assistant chief scout. No one knew how dangerous he was until the bodies of three young boys were discovered.

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