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 package deal contains Woodcut Media productions Krays: London’s Gangsters, The Murder 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 Seaside Assault; Wag Leisure’s Assassin Behind the Masks, Middlechild Productions’ The Fb Honeytrap: Catching a Killer and just lately introduced decide up The Wimbledon Killer, which is from Blink Movies.
Single doc The Homicide of Joanna Yeates launches first, per week immediately on April 22. It appears into the case of Yeates, who was discovered murdered on Christmas Day in 2010 after going lacking from her residence in Bristol. The case grew to become a grim lesson how media frenzies can go fallacious, with Yeates’ harmless landlord, Christopher Jefferies, accused of homicide and placed on trial by the press. A Dutch nationwide dwelling within the constructing was later jailed for the killing.
Krays: London’s Gangsters is a two-parter trying how twin brothers Ronnie and Reggie Kray constructed a prison empire and turned themslves into underworld legends in London’s East Finish within the Fifties and Nineteen Sixties. The doc contains never-heard-before audio of the brothers throughout their later imprisonments and explores the deep and sophisticated relationship between them.
The Crossbow Killer profiles assassin Stephen Griffiths, Homicide in Concrete appears 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? appears at three generations of a household – together with an eight-week-old child – have been killed as a part of a cash laundering scheme.
Surviving the Tunisia Seaside 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 appears into how profitable architect and seemingly completely satisfied 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 last month, The Wimbledon Killer appears into the homicide of Rachel Nickell, who was stabbed to loss of life in broad daylight on Wimbledon Frequent. It’s one in all two docs on the killing, together with Netflix’s Wimbledon Frequent (working title).
“We’re extraordinarily happy with the relationships we now have constructed with a large group of indies all through the world,” stated Will Stapley, Sphere Abacus Head of Acquisitions. “The producers included on this vital deal are finest at school and we’re certain that these various, top quality true crime titles will strongly enchantment to Prime Video subscribers.”
Prime Video has shopped at Sphere Abacus a number of instances up to now for true crime docs, taking a similarly large slate back in January 2024 in a single occasion.
Canada’s Bell Media recently completed a deal to buy Sphere Abacus, as Deadline revealed a number of weeks again. Sphere Abacus had beforehand been bought to Sphere Media, wherein Bell holds a minority stake.
