EXCLUSIVE: The infamous London underground killer is being explored in a function doc by Prime Video UK and Eire.
The London Underground Killer delves into the lifetime of an Irish vagrant by the title of Kieran Kelly, who might probably be one of many UK’s most prolific serial killers. He was arrested for petty theft in 1983, and while in his holding cell, killed his fellow inmate, strangling him with a pair of socks. Within the subsequent police interviews, Kelly claimed to have murdered and attacked many extra individuals, together with pushing them in entrance of trains, setting others on hearth, and even poisoning. He died in jail in 2001. Dedicated over a interval of 30 years, his alleged crimes kicked off an investigation that delved right into a hidden world of delusions, concern and desperation on the streets of London.
Woodcut Media, which makes quite a few true crime docs for Amazon, is behind the function. Government producers are Matthew Gordon and Koulla Anastasi, producer is Emma Griffiths and Jo Conchie-Energy is director. Woodcut is distributing.
“As we discover the lifetime of Kieran Kelly, we shed some gentle on the internal workings of a person who lived on the sting of society,” mentioned Gordon. “His recollections of the heinous acts he claimed to have dedicated was confused by years of habit and in addition his personal mythology. This movie questions not solely the truth of those crimes but in addition society’s response to the violence carried out in an underground society that was hidden in plain sight.”
Prime Video has been delving additional into the true crime area of late and has each greenlit or acquired Woodcut collection similar to Homicide in a Tea Cup, Homicide at First Swipe and The Homicide of Sandra Rivett.
Woodcut boss Kate Beal runs the UK’s nascent Affiliation of True Crime Producers and was certainly one of a quantity interviewed by Deadline final week for our obligation of care deep dive.
