EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is popping to infamous serial killers Fred and Rose West for its subsequent huge true crime doc sequence.
Fred & Rose West: A British Horror Story will characteristic relations of a number of the West’s victims talking for the primary time together with beforehand unseen police video and unheard audio recordings. Fred West, who died in 1995, is likely one of the UK’s most infamous serial killers, having murdered a minimum of 12 younger ladies between 1967 and 1987. He dedicated the vast majority of the murders along with his second spouse Rose West, who remains to be alive and is presently in jail.
Dropping on Might 14, Netflix’s sequence can be break up into three episodes, one titled “Fred”, one referred to as “Rose” and the ultimate named “The Trial”. The present follows 2022’s Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story, successful docuseries concerning the appalling sexual abuse crimes of the previous TV presenter.
Blink Movies is producing the West present and Dan Dewsbury (Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America) is directing. “Making this sequence has been an enormous enterprise for our workforce,” stated Dewsbury. “Gaining access to by no means earlier than seen video, by no means earlier than heard tapes, entry to individuals who have by no means beforehand spoken concerning the case, while additionally balancing the sensitivities of the households, after a long time of quiet heartbreak and power, has been inspiring to be a part of. We’ve enormous respect for the police investigation which led to Fred and Rose West being held chargeable for the crimes.”
A wealth of documentaries have aired down the years concerning the Wests together with a Channel 5 sequence with precisely the identical title as Netflix’s and one other Blink Movies-produced present referred to as Fred and Rose West: The Actual Story with Trevor McDonald.
Acceptable Grownup, a Channel 4 drama sequence concerning the police investigation, gained Dominic West a BAFTA in 2011.
The streamers are displaying no signal of lowering curiosity in true crime. Netflix is making each a documentary and a drama concerning the homicide of Rachel Nickell, Amazon has simply purchased an entire bundle of true crime reveals and Disney+ is making ready to launch Suspect: The Taking pictures of Jean Charles de Menezes.
Dan Chambers, David Herman and Fiona Stourton are producing Fred & Rose West: A British Horror Story.
