True Crime Mania

On 25 January 1998, American couple Tom and Eileen Lonergan mysteriously disappeared while on a scuba diving trip off the coast of Australia. A month later, two wetsuits and a disturbing message appeared off a Queensland beach: Forgotten at sea? Eaten by sharks? What really happened to the Lonergans?

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On July 18, 1984, Denise Morelle, a famous Quebec actress, was found raped and brutally murdered in a flat. For her family, her stage friends and her fans, the death of "Dame Plume" caused deep consternation. For who could have been so angry at this simple, respectful woman as to subject her to such abuse and kill her with such barbarity?

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On 28 May 1934, on a small farm in Canada, Elzire Dionne beat the odds to give birth to five identical girls. They are the first recorded quintuplets in the world to survive infancy. The girls became wards of the state, housed in a nursery that eventually turned into Quintland, a tourist attraction for visitors from around the world.

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On 6 April 2017 in Durrenbach, a small town near Strasbourg, a horrifying tragedy shook the surrounding tranquillity. Beatrice Bowe, a 60-year-old pensioner, was found in her house, stabbed with thirty-six stabs and her face torn off. Who could blame the woman that everyone so affectionately called "Granny Football"?

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Murders, suicides, settling of scores, revenge, creaking doors, black water running from the taps, corpses hidden under the floor...but what is the curse that pursues the Cecil Hotel, a place that has everything to impress!

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Chloe Ayling is a young English model. At just twenty years old, she has several magazine covers to her credit. However, everything changed on 10 July 2017, when she was invited to take part in a photo shoot in a Milanese studio. Drugged, handcuffed, thrown into the trunk of a car, the nightmare begins for Chloe when she learns that auctions are underway for her sale on the dark web to a powerful human trafficking network: The Black Death

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Billy Milligan is a suspect like no other. He is under arrest for the kidnapping and repeated rape of three young girls he kidnapped. On closer inspection, the twenty-three year old accused may look like any other young man of his age. However, after thorough psychological examinations, it turns out that Billy Milligan is not the person they thought he was. For in reality, there is not just one Billy, but many!

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Between 1983 and 1996, the department of Isère experienced one of its darkest periods when children between the ages of five and fifteen began to disappear mysteriously. Some were found murdered while others were never found. Who is behind the disappearance of the children? A serial killer, a dangerous sexual predator? Are they one, two or more individuals?

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On 9 February 1949, on a cold windy day, a corpse floating in a wicker trunk was discovered in the Puits d'Enfer chasm in Les Sables-d'Olonne. Only one element makes it possible to identify the victim, the initials "R.T." sewn into his suit. Two culprits are in the police's sights: Andree Farre, a housekeeper, and her lover Roland Plannet, a young idler.

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It is Monday, March 20, 1995, and many commuters on the underground lines in the outskirts of Tokyo are waiting for their train to go to work. Suddenly, disaster strikes! An unbearable smell invades the carriages, the passengers feel increasingly ill and struggle to breathe. That day, five underground lines were hit by a deadly sarin gas attack.

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