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1. The Woman Who Wasn’t There
Tania Head’s 9/11 story shook the world. She was in the World Trade Center the moment the first plane hit. She walked down 78 floors. Her husband Dave died at Ground Zero. After surviving, her involvement as a founding member of the World Trade Center Survivors’ Network helped her conquer her grief and trauma.
Tania never told anyone her husband’s last name, but she told the story of their wedding in Hawaii, the moment they met. She’d bring a toy yellow taxi to his memorial. People mourned with her. An entire nation held on to Tania’s account of 9/11. Now comes the mind-blowing part. It was all lies. Why? Watch this documentary on Netflix.
3. Dear Zachary
Andrew Bagby was killed by his ex-girlfriend, Shirley Turner. After his death, she announced she was pregnant with Andrew’s baby. Amidst their grief, Kurt Kuenne, a close friend of Andrew’s decided to make a cinematic scrapbook for Andrew’s son Zachary.
Watch this documentary with a box of tissues to hand. There’s an awful turn towards the end of this documentary. Shirley kills Zachary by putting pills into his food and jumps into the Atlantic Ocean with him strapped to her chest. It is seriously devastating viewing but it raises important questions about mental health, the justice system, and parental obligations.
5. Making A Murderer
One of the most famous true crime documentaries of the past few years, Making A Murderer is back. The first season focused on Steven Avery, who had wrongfully been convicted of sexual assault and attempted murder. He was exonerated by DNA testing and released, only to be convicted in another murder case two years later.
This season, more evidence, more explosive revelations, and more confusion is coming. You’ll be sure that he did it one second, and then decide that he couldn’t have the next. You’ll have your own line of suspects lined up after watching this one.
7. The Keepers
The question at the heart of this documentary is who killed Sister Cathy? An English and drama teacher at Baltimore’s Archbishop Keough High School who suspected that a priest at the school was guilty of sexual abuse of students. She went out to buy an engagement gift for her sister and never returned.
After her death, allegations of the abuse and torment the students had faced came out, with one former student alleging that the priest in question took her to Cathy’s body and said “You see what happens when you say bad things about people.”
9. Evil Genius
On 28th August 2003, Brian Wells walked into a bank in Pennsylvania, he was carrying a cane fitted with a gun and had a bomb around his neck. The note he slid to the cashier instructed him to get $250,000.
The police intercepted him and, despite Brian’s pleas and bargaining, the bomb went off shortly after he robbed the bank. But this is not an open and shut case, for it was soon discovered that Brian had a series of scavenger hunt style tasks to complete in order to remove the bomb from his neck and free himself. He was not in charge of what happened. Next, a call comes in, a man declares there’s a body in his freezer, he knows who murdered him, and he’s turning all the information over to the police.
The two things are interlinked, it turns out, and police are in for a ride that’s stranger than fiction once they start unraveling this case, and the culprits behind it.
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