Serial killers: the most dire stories to watch on Netflix

The stories of serial killers are quite a hit on Netflix and on all streaming platforms, we can assure that. It's enough to take a quick look to realize that productions about criminals abound on this streaming service. Therefore, below we will give you some productions about it that you might be interested in seeing.

1. Conversations with murderers: the Ted Bundy tapes

Ted Bundy is one of the most famous serial killers in the United States. He committed 30 crimes in the 1970s, which he first denied and then admitted. This documentary mini-series, Netflix original, delves into its history with four chapters of more than 50 minutes each. With interviews, archival footage and audio recordings, it offers a sharp profile of Bundy and, at the same time, allows you to enter Bundy's bizarre mind.

2. Mindhunter

The story of the FBI team led by Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff), Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) and psychologist Wendy Carr (Anna Torv) introduced us to the minds of serial killers. Based partly on real events, this team travels through different prisons in the United States to meet face-to-face with famous criminals. The idea? Understand how a person comes to commit these acts and what moves them.

Among those who appear here are Jerry Brudos, who explains the fetishes of murderers; David Berkowitz, who coined his acts that his neighbor's dog ordered them to be; Ed Kemper, who bragged about his crimes, and Charles Manson, famous for his cult and murders of Hollywood stars. With several episodes directed by renowned David Fincher and two spectacular seasons, Mindhunter is one of Netflix's must-have series.

3. Acosador nocturno

This Netflix production explores one of the darkest figures of crime in the United States in the 1980s: Richard Ramirez, who was christened by the media as “The Night Stalker”. It was Ramirez, a psychopath who caused terror among the inhabitants of the city of Los Angeles with his surprising home break-ins during the night, attacks that included robberies, rapes, murders and abductions of children.

This criminal had the local police on a search that lasted several months, especially two members of the Homicide Department: detectives Gil Carrillo and Frank Salerno. And the most interesting thing about this four-part docuseries is that not only are they the benchmark for research on this psychopath, but they are the main elements around which his story develops.

4. El destripador de Yorkshire

“The Yorkshire Ripper”, that is what they called the criminal who for several years, between the late 70s and the beginning of the 80s, sowed terror in the county of Yorkshire, in the north of England.

Over a five-year period, Peter Sutcliffe brutally murdered 13 women, most of them prostitutes, and always with the same modus operandi: first by beating them in the head, then stabbing them and finally by mutilation. A dark passage that revives this new documentary miniseries that manages to engage and avoid delving into the morbidity and details of crimes.

5. The Hidden Killer: In the Mind of Aaron Hernandez

The hidden murderer is not a serial killer as such, but it is about a man who hid his crimes behind a facade of an American football player, and not just any one; Hernandez was an idolized athlete with millionaire contracts in the NFL. That is, until the crimes in which he was involved became known.

This series shows this whole process in three chapters, in addition to the family problems he had and his repressed homosexuality.

6. Don't mess with cats

We tell you that not all serial killers get on people. The killer in this docuseries is a cat killer, a macabre story that animalists will have a hard time seeing. This is the case of a young Canadian who tortured cats and uploaded videos of these mutilations to the internet.

Two ordinary people, Deanna Thompson, from Las Vegas and John Green, from Los Angeles, decide to lead the cyber investigation of this killer and that is where the documentary is centered. While there are no explicit images of animal abuse, just knowing what will happen to these harmless kittens is painful and distressing. What it shows is human cruelty to animals, with the aim of cases so that they do not happen again.

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