The lifetime of the infamous Kray twins and the homicide of British architect Joanna Yeates are among the many newest true crime tales headed to Prime Video.
The Amazon streamer has struck a ten-title cope with London-based distributor Sphere Abacus for rights within the UK and Eire. All of the reveals hail from British impartial producers.
The bundle contains Woodcut Media productions Krays: London’s Gangsters, The Homicide of Joanna Yeates, The Crossbow Cannibal, Homicide in Concrete, Confessions of a Feminine Serial Killer and Murdered or Lacking?; Yeti Tv’s Surviving the Tunisia Seashore Assault; Wag Leisure’s Assassin Behind the Masks, Middlechild Productions’ The Fb Honeytrap: Catching a Killer and not too long ago introduced decide up The Wimbledon Killer, which is from Blink Movies.
Single doc The Homicide of Joanna Yeates launches first, every week at present on April 22. It seems to be into the case of Yeates, who was discovered murdered on Christmas Day in 2010 after going lacking from her house in Bristol. The case turned a grim lesson how media frenzies can go flawed, with Yeates’ harmless landlord, Christopher Jefferies, accused of homicide and placed on trial by the press. A Dutch nationwide residing within the constructing was later jailed for the killing.
Krays: London’s Gangsters is a two-parter wanting how twin brothers Ronnie and Reggie Kray constructed a felony empire and turned themslves into underworld legends in London’s East Finish within the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties. The doc consists of never-heard-before audio of the brothers throughout their later imprisonments and explores the deep and complicated relationship between them.
The Crossbow Killer profiles assassin Stephen Griffiths, Homicide in Concrete seems to be into the case of a physique found in a concrete tomb, Confessions of the Feminine Serial Killer explores the 10-day homicide spree dedicated by Joanne Dennehy in March 2013 and Homicide or Lacking? seems to be at three generations of a household – together with an eight-week-old child – had been killed as a part of a cash laundering scheme.
Surviving the Tunisia Seashore Assault is billed as “the definitive account” of the 2015 bloodbath of vacationers that claimed 38 lives within the lower than 40 minutes, Homicide Behind the Masks seems to be into how profitable architect and seemingly joyful household Graham Dwyer secretly dedicated a homicide, and The Fb Honeytrap explores how the doting niece of murdered British expat Christine Robinson ensnared her aunt’s killer.
As we revealed final month, The Wimbledon Killer seems to be into the homicide of Rachel Nickell, who was stabbed to dying in broad daylight on Wimbledon Widespread. It’s one in all two docs on the killing, together with Netflix’s Wimbledon Widespread (working title).
“We’re extraordinarily pleased with the relationships we’ve constructed with a large group of indies all through the world,” mentioned Will Stapley, Sphere Abacus Head of Acquisitions. “The producers included on this important deal are greatest in school and we’re certain that these various, prime quality true crime titles will strongly enchantment to Prime Video subscribers.”
Prime Video has shopped at Sphere Abacus a number of occasions prior to now for true crime docs, taking a equally massive slate again in January 2024 in a single occasion.
Canada’s Bell Media not too long ago accomplished a deal to purchase Sphere Abacus, as Deadline revealed a couple of weeks again. Sphere Abacus had beforehand been offered to Sphere Media, by which Bell holds a minority stake.
