Get ready to dive into a night of murder mysteries and mind-bending crimes as you binge-watch these mini-series.
Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: It’s a one-season series that tells The story of one of America’s most notorious serial killers, partly told from the point of view of his victims. The series dives into the police incompetence and apathy that allowed the Wisconsin native to go on a multiyear killing spree. It dramatizes multiple instances where Dahmer was almost apprehended, but ultimately let go.
YOU: a four-season series that was released in 2018, based on Caroline Kepnes’ bestselling books You and Hidden Bodies. It’s an American psychological thriller-crime drama developed by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble. The series follows a dangerously charming, intensely obsessive young man who goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of those he is transfixed by, where he quietly and strategically removes every obstacle – and person – in his way.
Fe Koul Osbou Youm Gomaa: an Egyptian TV series by Menna Shalaby and Asser Yassin that consists of 10 episodes. Laila (Menna Shalby) with her mysterious history makes a deal with Emad (Asser Yassin), who’s mental issues, to live with him as a wife. And then a series of ambiguous and terrifying crimes start happening every Friday.
The Ripper: a crime documentary series where survivors and investigators tell the story of Jack the Ripper who terrorized North England in the 1970s. It’s the story of Peter Sutcliffe, an English serial killer responsible for the brutal slayings of 13 women in Manchester and West Yorkshire between 1975 and 1980. Dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper by the press, he was a copycat killer to the notorious unidentified Jack the Ripper, who reigned terror in the streets of London in the 1800s. The series takes you on a chronological journey into the events from the mind of a monster.
Des: It’s the story of the Scottish serial killer, Dennis Nilsen, who was arrested after the discovery of human remains that had blocked a drain near his London home. Nilsen freely admits to police that it’s not just one or two bodies but “15 or 16, I think”. As the police try to secure a conviction and identify the victims, a biographer begins a game of chess with `Des’ in an attempt to understand his motives.
Conversations With a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes (2022): It’s the second in the series of Conversations with a Killer, it takes you on a tour into the dark and twisted mind of John Wayne Gacy, AKA The Killer Clown. Gacy was responsible for the horrific torture and murders of at least 33 young boys between 1972 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois, but that number could be higher. He spent 14 years on Death Row before his execution in 1994. The series contains chilling archival audio footage from John’s incarceration, interviews with police and others involved in the case, and his one surviving victim.
Get ready to experience a unique genre of TV shows from psychological thrillers like You and Des to bone-chilling crime documentaries like The Ripper and Conversations With a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes, These shows offer an enthralling and thought-provoking glimpse into the twisted minds of some of history’s most notorious criminals.