RTVE had announced the premiere, on TVE and RTVE Play, of the ‘docuseries’The murderer of the deck for this Tuesday, just one day after TV-3 broadcast the second chapter of ‘El cas de Febamar‘ and the last rerun of the four installments of ‘El crim de la Guardia Urbana: la versió del jurat’, with which the Catalan regional channel would end its successful season (with audiences of up to 25% share).
But it has not been like that, since at the last minute RTVE has decided to offer a thematic night on Eurovision with the emission of four chapters of ‘Journey to the center of the earth’, by what lovers of the ‘true crime’ genre will have to wait to see the new original documentary series from RTVE Play. This new sample of the genre follows, step by step, the research carried out to hunt aua serial killer who terrorized Madrid in 2003. The three 45-minute episodes will premiere, with a date yet to be determined, on TVE and RTVE Play, RTVE’s content and direct platform.
Produced by RTVE in collaboration with Goroka, ‘El Asesino de la baraja’ has had the executive production, and the undoubted stamp, of the journalist Carlos Portadirector and presenter of the series ‘Crims’, which broadcasts TV-3 in Catalan and offers later Movistar Plus+, in Spanish. It is a rfast-paced elato which is articulated through interviews conducted with those who, in their day, were part, in one way or another, of this history. With what the investigators of the National Police and Civil Guard, the crime journalists who closely followed the case, as well as lawyers and the victims who were able to survive the attacks. There is also the special presence of the criminologist Vicente Garrido, who acts as a criminal profiler to draw the mind of the criminal.
The story told was that of the serial crimes that occurred in Madrid, during the first seven months of 2003, which kept both the National Police and the Civil Guard in check, because they could not find the murderer. In addition to telling how the police work, the ‘docuseries’ focuses on how, parallel to the investigation, the media created a monster that only increased terror among the Madrid population.
A cinematic aesthetic
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‘The deck killer’ has a totally cinematic aesthetic and one narrative structure of ‘thriller’, in addition to graphic and sound material from the judicial and police archives that had never seen the light of day before and that provides valuable information to the story. The visual style, the types of shots and the staging are reminiscent of the great films of the 70s film noir directed by Don Siegel, Sidney Lumet or William Friedkin.
In addition to the three episodes, the ‘docuseries’, directed by Román Parrado with a script by Enric Álvarez and executive produced by Goroka, the producer of ‘Crims’ (with Guillem Cascante, Ruben Mayoral and Carles Porta in charge), will feature an extra transmedia chapter, as an epilogue, in which the criminal profile of the murderer is traced through expert analysis, and which will also be available, very soon, on RTVE Play.