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True-crime documentary fans can now watch both seasons of the popular series “Bloodline Detectives Hosted by Nancy Grace,” the unique series that explores familial DNA search and testing used to uncover elusive criminals, now that Season 2 is joining the first season on numerous free streaming platforms. Hosted by preeminent legal analyst and renowned former prosecutor Nancy Grace, the series takes viewers behind the scenes of cold cases as detectives solve years-old murder investigations using two kinds of technology: genetic genealogy and familial searching. Detectives can harness these techniques to pinpoint an unknown criminal’s relatives and then trace the path of a family tree to reveal the killer, as used in high-profile cases such as The Golden State Killer and The Grim Sleeper. Grace opens each episode by detailing a highly publicised and violent crime with unknown motives whose assailants were ultimately caught using Familial DNA Search, the ground-breaking method used to reveal the identities of notoriously elusive criminals. Viewers
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When it comes to true crime, there are thousands of documentaries, and if you’re like me, you’ve probably seen a lot of them. There’s one new documentary headed your way that is different, more profound, and more emotionally charged, Lovely Jackson. In the documentary, the life and wrongful incarceration of Rickey Jackson are explored. Rickey was convicted of murder while just a teen and sentenced to death before his sentence was commuted to life in prison three years later. He spent the next 39 years fighting for his freedom. You see, Rickey was innocent, and the only thing that tied him to the crime was a lie told by a 12-year-old boy, who eventually recanted his statement. Rickey was convicted without evidence and even had a witness tell the police he wasn’t the man. But still, Rickey spent the majority of his life in prison until the Ohio innocents Project came to his aid. Finally, he was set free. Lovely
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Can you imagine being sentenced to death, having it commuted, only to spend 39 years facing the brutality and real horrors of prison and knowing that you are completely innocent? That was the reality for Rickey Jackson, prisoner A144-061. In the new documentary Lovely Jackson, we are introduced to Rickey and the hardships he experienced for many decades. Lovely Jackson is not your average true crime film. We rarely see through the eyes of someone who has experienced so much suffering at the hands of a failed justice system. You may be wondering how an innocent man found himself in such a situation, the state’s entire case hinged on a statement made b12-year-old-old, and it was a complete lie. Rickey waited for thirty-nine years for him to tell the truth. You would think Rickey would be bitter, but no. Somehow he remains kind and found forgiveness for the man who almost put him in the electric chair. I wasn’t sure
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The upcoming true crime-inspired film, When George Was Murdered, explores what happened inside of the jail where the ex-cop who killed George Floyd was being held in the Spring of 2020. As the guards and the inmates are witnessing what is taking place in their city and around the world due to George Floyd’s murder, the news of the killers’ presence in the jail has spread. Inside the jail, the guards know that doing their job to keep the killer safe will not be an easy task. And they have recently become aware that none of the minority guards in the jail are being allowed to work the unit where the killer of George Floyd is being held. In addition, there is the mounting pressure of the inmates, who have begun making outright threats against the Killer ex-cop as their own form office, threats that every one of the guards knows could potentially happen. It does not take long before
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The trailer for Apple’s highly-anticipated limited series “Black Bird,” a gritty, suspenseful psychological thriller, has just debuted. “Black Bird” stars Taron Egerton as Jimmy Keene, Paul Walter Hauser as Larry Hall, Greg Kinnear as Brian Miller, Sepideh Moafi as Lauren McCauley, and Ray Liotta in his final role, playing Jimmy Keene’s father, Big Jim Keene. The series is adapted from the true crime memoir “In With The Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, and A Dangerous Bargain for Redemption” by James Keene and Hillel Levin. Inspired by actual events, when high school football hero and decorated policeman’s son Jimmy Keene (Egerton) is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison, he is given the choice of a lifetime — enter a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane and befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall (Hauser), or stay where he is and serve his full sentence with no possibility of parole. Keene quickly realizes his only way out is
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Is there anything worse than being punished for a crime you didn’t commit? Today, we have a new clip from Zodiac Features’ new biographical true crime docu-thriller, Lovely Jackson, the feature directorial debut from filmmaker Matt Waldeck, p.g.a. (“I See You”) ahead of its world premiere at the iconic American Black Film Festival on June 17th. Lovely Jackson is a boldly cinematic epic journey that begins in tragedy, hopelessness, injustice, and death but ends in triumph, beauty, and new life. Focused on America’s longest wrongfully held exonerated prisoner, Rickey Jackson, returns to the actual prison where his 39-year journey of survival began in 1976 and guides his younger self from death row to freedom while facing his real-life accusers along the way, along with critical assistance from The Ohio Innocence Project. Lovely Jackson is a shocking and moving true story about perseverance through the darkest and most hopeless of circumstances that begins in violence and ends with love. This documentary
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Peacock is gearing up to deliver heartbreaking stories and mysteries in the new true series, “Dateline: The Last Day,” which examines the final hours of victims’ lives leading up to their deaths, Deadline reports. The eight-episode series will feature reports from the Deadline time that have never before been featured during broadcasts. NBC News correspondents Keith Morrison, Josh Mankiewicz, Stephanie Gosk, and Andrea Canning will “examine the final day of a victim’s life – the split-second decisions and pivotal moments that made the difference between life and death. Detectives retrace those crucial hours looking for clues to solve the mystery.” When it comes to crime, Dateline has long been telling those stories and captivating viewers longer than anyone else,” said Rod Aissa, EVP Unscripted Content, NBCUniversal Television & Streaming. “We are thrilled to have the first original series from this iconic brand on Peacock and bring even more of these stories to our streaming audience.” “Dateline: The Last Day” premieres
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The streaming service Cinehouse, which has a great library filled with the best in movies and series, has just announced the arrival of several hit true-crime docuseries, “The New Detectives,” “The FBI Files,” and “Interview With A Murder.” Can science solve history’s coldest crimes and strangest mysteries? True stories of crime investigations using forensic science are explored in “The New Detectives,” as part of their newest channel, Crime Hunters. “The FBI Files” reveals the crime-busting techniques and forensic science used by the FBI to solve the most baffling cases. James Kallstrom, former head of the FBI’s New York Office, hosts these true stories of crime and detection, taking you behind the scenes with re-enactments and interviews with actual participants. Join FBI agents as they work to bring the most notorious criminals to justice. Criminologist Prof David Wilson conducts a series of interviews with convicted murderer Bert Spencer, the man suspected of – yet never charged with – killing paperboy Carl
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Hulu’s new true-crime series “Captive Audience: A Real American Horror Story” delves into the strange story surrounding Steven Stayner and his family, in three episodes. This is the story of how a story gets told, and how the media’s magnifying glass impacts the characters caught in the narrative. Siblings Ashley and Steven Stayner Jr. never knew their famous father Steven, the child victim of a shocking California kidnapping, who tragically died in an accident when they were young. In 1972, seven-year-old Steven went to school – and never came home. His mother Kay struggles to keep the media interested in the case and to hold her family together. Then, after seven years, a miracle: Steven returns. The media can’t get enough of the story and frantically descend on the Stayner home – but this isn’t the Hollywood ending it appears to be. Now fourteen years old, Steven struggles to adapt, and his family grapples with life under the media microscope.
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HBO Max is delving into the true-crime death of Kathleen Peterson in their new series “The Staircase” whose first teaser trailer has arrived giving us a look at what appears as an ideal family, but looks can be deceiving. Starring Toni Collette (Hereditary) and Colin Firth (Kingsman: The Golden Circle), the series examines the true story of novelist Michael Peterson who was accused of killing his wife in December of 2001, a story that captivated the world. Antonio Campos and Maggie Cohen (“American Crime Story”) serve as showrunners for the series that features three timelines, the days leading up to Kathleen’s death, the direct aftermath, and the present day. “The Staircase” also stars Rosemarie DeWitt as Kathleen’s grieving sister Candace, Parker Posey as prosecutor Freda, the Peterson children are played by Sophie Turner, Dane DeHaan, and Odessa Young. Joel McKinnon Miller also stars. On December 9th, 2001 in Durham, North Carolina, Kathleen Peterson’s life was ended. According to the 911
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True-crime documentary fans can now watch both seasons of the popular series “Bloodline Detectives Hosted by Nancy Grace,” the unique series that explores familial DNA search and testing used to uncover elusive criminals, now that Season 2 is joining the first season on numerous free streaming platforms. Hosted by preeminent legal analyst and renowned former prosecutor Nancy Grace, the series takes viewers behind the scenes of cold cases as detectives solve years-old murder investigations using two kinds of technology: genetic genealogy and familial searching. Detectives can harness these techniques to pinpoint an unknown criminal’s relatives and then trace the path of a family tree to reveal the killer, as used in high-profile cases such as The Golden State Killer and The Grim Sleeper. Grace opens each episode by detailing a highly publicised and violent crime with unknown motives whose assailants were ultimately caught using Familial DNA Search, the ground-breaking method used to reveal the identities of notoriously elusive criminals. Viewers
Continue reading →
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When it comes to true crime, there are thousands of documentaries, and if you’re like me, you’ve probably seen a lot of them. There’s one new documentary headed your way that is different, more profound, and more emotionally charged, Lovely Jackson. In the documentary, the life and wrongful incarceration of Rickey Jackson are explored. Rickey was convicted of murder while just a teen and sentenced to death before his sentence was commuted to life in prison three years later. He spent the next 39 years fighting for his freedom. You see, Rickey was innocent, and the only thing that tied him to the crime was a lie told by a 12-year-old boy, who eventually recanted his statement. Rickey was convicted without evidence and even had a witness tell the police he wasn’t the man. But still, Rickey spent the majority of his life in prison until the Ohio innocents Project came to his aid. Finally, he was set free. Lovely
Continue reading →
DocumentariesMoviesNewsReviewsTrailersTrue Crime
Can you imagine being sentenced to death, having it commuted, only to spend 39 years facing the brutality and real horrors of prison and knowing that you are completely innocent? That was the reality for Rickey Jackson, prisoner A144-061. In the new documentary Lovely Jackson, we are introduced to Rickey and the hardships he experienced for many decades. Lovely Jackson is not your average true crime film. We rarely see through the eyes of someone who has experienced so much suffering at the hands of a failed justice system. You may be wondering how an innocent man found himself in such a situation, the state’s entire case hinged on a statement made b12-year-old-old, and it was a complete lie. Rickey waited for thirty-nine years for him to tell the truth. You would think Rickey would be bitter, but no. Somehow he remains kind and found forgiveness for the man who almost put him in the electric chair. I wasn’t sure
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsThrillerTrailersTrue Crime
The upcoming true crime-inspired film, When George Was Murdered, explores what happened inside of the jail where the ex-cop who killed George Floyd was being held in the Spring of 2020. As the guards and the inmates are witnessing what is taking place in their city and around the world due to George Floyd’s murder, the news of the killers’ presence in the jail has spread. Inside the jail, the guards know that doing their job to keep the killer safe will not be an easy task. And they have recently become aware that none of the minority guards in the jail are being allowed to work the unit where the killer of George Floyd is being held. In addition, there is the mounting pressure of the inmates, who have begun making outright threats against the Killer ex-cop as their own form office, threats that every one of the guards knows could potentially happen. It does not take long before
Continue reading →
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The trailer for Apple’s highly-anticipated limited series “Black Bird,” a gritty, suspenseful psychological thriller, has just debuted. “Black Bird” stars Taron Egerton as Jimmy Keene, Paul Walter Hauser as Larry Hall, Greg Kinnear as Brian Miller, Sepideh Moafi as Lauren McCauley, and Ray Liotta in his final role, playing Jimmy Keene’s father, Big Jim Keene. The series is adapted from the true crime memoir “In With The Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, and A Dangerous Bargain for Redemption” by James Keene and Hillel Levin. Inspired by actual events, when high school football hero and decorated policeman’s son Jimmy Keene (Egerton) is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison, he is given the choice of a lifetime — enter a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane and befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall (Hauser), or stay where he is and serve his full sentence with no possibility of parole. Keene quickly realizes his only way out is
Continue reading →
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Is there anything worse than being punished for a crime you didn’t commit? Today, we have a new clip from Zodiac Features’ new biographical true crime docu-thriller, Lovely Jackson, the feature directorial debut from filmmaker Matt Waldeck, p.g.a. (“I See You”) ahead of its world premiere at the iconic American Black Film Festival on June 17th. Lovely Jackson is a boldly cinematic epic journey that begins in tragedy, hopelessness, injustice, and death but ends in triumph, beauty, and new life. Focused on America’s longest wrongfully held exonerated prisoner, Rickey Jackson, returns to the actual prison where his 39-year journey of survival began in 1976 and guides his younger self from death row to freedom while facing his real-life accusers along the way, along with critical assistance from The Ohio Innocence Project. Lovely Jackson is a shocking and moving true story about perseverance through the darkest and most hopeless of circumstances that begins in violence and ends with love. This documentary
Continue reading →
NewsPeacockStreaming TVTrailersTrue CrimeTrue Story
Peacock is gearing up to deliver heartbreaking stories and mysteries in the new true series, “Dateline: The Last Day,” which examines the final hours of victims’ lives leading up to their deaths, Deadline reports. The eight-episode series will feature reports from the Deadline time that have never before been featured during broadcasts. NBC News correspondents Keith Morrison, Josh Mankiewicz, Stephanie Gosk, and Andrea Canning will “examine the final day of a victim’s life – the split-second decisions and pivotal moments that made the difference between life and death. Detectives retrace those crucial hours looking for clues to solve the mystery.” When it comes to crime, Dateline has long been telling those stories and captivating viewers longer than anyone else,” said Rod Aissa, EVP Unscripted Content, NBCUniversal Television & Streaming. “We are thrilled to have the first original series from this iconic brand on Peacock and bring even more of these stories to our streaming audience.” “Dateline: The Last Day” premieres
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsStreaming TVTrue Crime
The streaming service Cinehouse, which has a great library filled with the best in movies and series, has just announced the arrival of several hit true-crime docuseries, “The New Detectives,” “The FBI Files,” and “Interview With A Murder.” Can science solve history’s coldest crimes and strangest mysteries? True stories of crime investigations using forensic science are explored in “The New Detectives,” as part of their newest channel, Crime Hunters. “The FBI Files” reveals the crime-busting techniques and forensic science used by the FBI to solve the most baffling cases. James Kallstrom, former head of the FBI’s New York Office, hosts these true stories of crime and detection, taking you behind the scenes with re-enactments and interviews with actual participants. Join FBI agents as they work to bring the most notorious criminals to justice. Criminologist Prof David Wilson conducts a series of interviews with convicted murderer Bert Spencer, the man suspected of – yet never charged with – killing paperboy Carl
Continue reading →
DocumentariesHuluNewsStreaming TVTrailersTrue CrimeTrue Story
Hulu’s new true-crime series “Captive Audience: A Real American Horror Story” delves into the strange story surrounding Steven Stayner and his family, in three episodes. This is the story of how a story gets told, and how the media’s magnifying glass impacts the characters caught in the narrative. Siblings Ashley and Steven Stayner Jr. never knew their famous father Steven, the child victim of a shocking California kidnapping, who tragically died in an accident when they were young. In 1972, seven-year-old Steven went to school – and never came home. His mother Kay struggles to keep the media interested in the case and to hold her family together. Then, after seven years, a miracle: Steven returns. The media can’t get enough of the story and frantically descend on the Stayner home – but this isn’t the Hollywood ending it appears to be. Now fourteen years old, Steven struggles to adapt, and his family grapples with life under the media microscope.
Continue reading →
HBO MaxNewsStreaming TVThrillerTrailersTrue CrimeTrue Story
HBO Max is delving into the true-crime death of Kathleen Peterson in their new series “The Staircase” whose first teaser trailer has arrived giving us a look at what appears as an ideal family, but looks can be deceiving. Starring Toni Collette (Hereditary) and Colin Firth (Kingsman: The Golden Circle), the series examines the true story of novelist Michael Peterson who was accused of killing his wife in December of 2001, a story that captivated the world. Antonio Campos and Maggie Cohen (“American Crime Story”) serve as showrunners for the series that features three timelines, the days leading up to Kathleen’s death, the direct aftermath, and the present day. “The Staircase” also stars Rosemarie DeWitt as Kathleen’s grieving sister Candace, Parker Posey as prosecutor Freda, the Peterson children are played by Sophie Turner, Dane DeHaan, and Odessa Young. Joel McKinnon Miller also stars. On December 9th, 2001 in Durham, North Carolina, Kathleen Peterson’s life was ended. According to the 911
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