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For years, the “true crime” It’s one of the fashionable television genres that sweeps away the audience. The True crime documentary films and series They have become regular premieres on both cable channels and platforms. The fascination with serial killers and professional scammers is gaining followers every day. Probably because it’s proof that sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. Furthermore, analyzed from a psychological point of view, they activate the morbidity to find out the sinister and hidden motivations of human beings when these lead them to commit atrocities.
A new and very convincing production of A&E Investigates puts a fresh spin on the genre by exploring some of the most notorious homicide investigations of this century, focusing on the fingerprints of several murder victims. By accessing social media posts, text messages, emails and podcasts (among other records) of each of the victims, along with archival materials and police investigations, investigators discover motives, means and opportunities in each tragic event.
Initially, detectives used physical clues along with preliminary work and interviews to solve murders. Then came DNA evidence, including fingerprints, which opened up a world of suspects and opportunities for scrutiny by authorities. But today, in addition to contact with people and evaluations of crime scenes, important and valuable information is displayed in virtual personal accounts, computer hard drives, search histories and cell phone data that are unavoidable to decipher. crimes.
This first season of ten episodes includes the cases of Natalie Bollinger, a 19-year-old girl who disappears without a trace and the confusion generated by the information in the media. The brutal murder of a young couple in their own home, in the quiet town of Mountain City, in the state of Tennessee (USA), which allows us to unravel a set of sinister secrets within the family. The incident of virtual harassment that finally manages to unravel a deadly web of lies. A gruesome quadruple homicide that ten years later clarifies the mystery of a serial killer, in addition to the surprising and tortuous crime of a young pregnant woman. All the shipping stories are real and chilling.
