Subgénero: True Crime
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The Red Book: continuation (El libro rojo: Continuación)
BOOK I: 1868-1928 | BOOK II: 1928-1959 BOOK III: 1959-1979 | BOOK IV: 1980-1993 Contemporary Mexico told through its crimes. In 1870, Vicente Riva Palacio, Manuel Payno, Rafael Martínez de la Torre, Juan A. Mateos, and Francisco Zarco published The Reed Book: 1520-1867, a fictionalized history of crime and bloodshed in Mexico from 1520 to…
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Honor: The other victims of the Marquises of Urquijo Murder Crime (Honor: Las otras víctimas del crimen de los marqueses de Urquijo)
The truth behind one of the most well-known crimes in Spain. On the night of August 1st, 1980, the marquises of Urquijo were shot while they slept in their Madrid house. Although the murder weapon was never found, a few shells that belonged to the same gun used to kill them were found. Thanks…
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Caught by Language (Atrapados por la lengua)
Words that gave murderers away. In just a paragraph or a five-minute talk we leave behind inevitable traces which are studied by forensic linguists, a scientific discipline which has helped track down terrorists such as Unabomber, as well as many murderers with accents or wannabe scammers. Just like the tiniest piece of skin on…
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The Brotherhood of Evil (La hermandad del mal)
The Dismemberer of Majadahonda. Two women disappeared five years apart. They do not know each other and have never seen each other; Liria was born in Salamanca (Spain) and Adriana in Buenos Aires. The only thing that unites them is the house in Majadahonda (city on the outskirts of Madrid) where they both…
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No Corpses (Sin cadáver) (TV Series)
The dead that don’t exist. No confession, no witnesses, no dead bodies, no biological remains, yet a conviction. This is the real case of Ramon Laso, a Spanish serial killer convicted in 1993 for the murders of his first wife and six-year-old son, and in 2014 for the murders of his second wife…
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Death on a Playing Card (La muerte en un naipe)
Nine victims, a deck of cards, and a criminal who is just playing for fun. On January 24th, 2003, Alfredo Galán Sotillo leaves his house with the intention of going for a walk in Madrid and killing someone. Anyone. The first victim is a man who is feeding his young son. He asks him to…
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Dismantling the Perfect Crime (Desmontando el crimen perfecto)
Angi: The identity thief. María Ángeles Molina Fernández, nicknamed “Angi” and former boss, millionaire, and alleged friend of Ana Paez, spent a lot of time planning the perfect crime. In an apartment in Barcelona, the cleaning lady finds Ana Páez's lifeless body on the sofa, naked, with her hands tied and a plastic bag…
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The Hole. The Story of a Killer (El agujero. Historia de un asesino)
Fake Shaolin monk by day, murderer by night. He called himself Huan, but his real name was Juan Carlos Aguilar Gómez. He used martial arts as a tool to control emotions. Self-proclaimed as the first Western Shaolin monk, three-time world kung-fu champion and eight-time world champion of Spain, he traveled to China and returned…
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A Sensitive Subject (Un asunto sensible)
Three Cuban stories of crime and betrayal. The emotionally thrilling true crime story and its trial that struck the Cuban society and negatively shifted their opinion about the Castro regime. After having recently survived the failed invasion of officer Fulgencio Batista´s Presidential Palace, four children from the Revolutionary Directory were gunned down by the Havana…
