True Crime Movies

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197-Method (2004-U.K.-1:33) Visions of serial killer Belle Gunness

Trailer:

[video=youtube;P1qY0zY7jJ0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1qY0zY7jJ0[/video]

 

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198-Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas (2009-U.S.-1:31) Another version of the serial killer

Trailer:

[video=youtube;yEuvMeQcjy4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEuvMeQcjy4[/video]

 

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199-Speck (2002-U.S.-1:19) Mass murderer Richard Speck

Site trailer:

[video=youtube;wtmUs1gvcxw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtmUs1gvcxw[/video]

 

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200-Perfect Murder, Perfect Town (2000-U.S.-2:58) The JonBenet Ramsey murder

Opening sequence:

[video=youtube;kDdRSTsq1kk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDdRSTsq1kk[/video]

 

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OK-There's some kind of visual for all my Top 200. :takeabow:

 

[Sulamith]

I just watched "The Confession Killer" on Netflix. It's about Henry Lee Lucas. I thought it was wonderful. Twists and turns! 2019 series and got a 7.8 rating on IMDB.

The Confession Killer (TV Mini-Series 2019) - IMDb

"Henry Lee Lucas was known as America's most prolific serial killer, admitting to hundreds of murders, but, as DNA results contradict his confessions, will they expose the biggest criminal justice hoax in U.S. history?"

 

[Sleeper75]

These are great recommendations!

 

[Miguel Bosworth]

Great TOP movies. Many of them I had to see. And I really liked them. I have not seen some of the films from the TOP, so I will definitely review it soon.

 

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My top 10 and the actual crimes they were inspired by with (Year of release-Country of making-Running time):

10-Lonely Hearts (2006-U.S.-1:48) The slayings by Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck

9-In Cold Blood (1967-U.S.-2:13) A grayscale rendition of the Clutter Family massacre

8-Murderous Maids [Les Blessures Assassines] (2000-Fr.-1:34) The killings by the Papin Sisters

7-Let Him Have It (1991-U.K.-1:55) The controversial Bentley and Craig Case

6-Borderland (2007-U.S.-1:45) The cult murders at Matamoros

5-The Man From the Pru (1989-U.K.-1:30) The unsolved murder of Julia Wallace

4-True Confessions (1981-U.S.-1:50) A film inspired by the unsolved Black Dahlia murder

3-10 Rillington Place (1971-U.K.-1:51) The crimes of serial killer John Christie

2-The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1994-U.K.-1:39) The serial murders of Graham Young

1-White Mischief (1988-U.K.-1:48) The unsolved murder of Lord Errol

I just learned something fascinating today-#9 and #10 are connected in crime history. Truman Capote, who wrote In Cold Blood after interviewing the Clutter Family murderers, was essentially kidnapped when he was 10 years old by a 16-year-old girl who had a strange romantic interest in him. That girl was future serial killer Martha Beck who, along with fellow Lonely Hearts Killer Raymond Fernandez, murdered 3-20 people in the late 1940s. They were both executed in the electric chair in 1951. Obviously, Truman survived.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

I just learned something fascinating today-#9 and #10 are connected in crime history. Truman Capote, who wrote In Cold Blood after interviewing the Clutter Family murderers, was essentially kidnapped when he was 10 years old by a 16-year-old girl who had a strange romantic interest in him. That girl was future serial killer Martha Beck who, along with fellow Lonely Hearts Killer Raymond Fernandez, murdered 3-20 people in the late 1940s. They were both executed in the electric chair in 1951. Obviously, Truman survived.

Match Made in Hell: How the 'Lonely Hearts' Killers Seduced Their Prey with Newspaper Ads During Murderous Spree

Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck were suspected of killing multiple women whom they lured through personal ads in the 1940s.

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Martha Beck was an extremely overweight, and by all reports, unattractive woman when she joined a lonely hearts club advertised in a romance magazine. Her first letter came from Ray Fernandez in Brooklyn. After World War II, he suffered a serious head injury in an accident that left him bald and with serious headaches. He became a petty criminal and wore a cheap black toupee to cover up his baldness. He convinced himself that he had a power over women that could turn them into his sexual slaves.

In 1946, Fernandez found his first mark in a lonely hearts club. He dated the older woman until he had gained enough of her trust to loot her bank account. The next year, he took the latest in a line of victims to Spain, where she turned up dead in a hotel room. Fernandez responded to Beck’s note with the intention of conning her, but after a brief affair, Fernandez and Beck apparently fell in love. When he confessed his original idea, Beck liked his scheme so much that she decided to join him.

Over the next two years, Beck posed as Fernandez’s sister as he seduced older women before stealing from them. By 1949, they had murdered one victim and killed another accidentally with an overdose of sleeping pills. The end came when Fernandez hooked up with a younger woman in Michigan. The woman was a bit suspicious of the “brother and sister,” and although she allowed them to move into her home, wouldn’t marry Fernandez immediately and provide him access to her funds. When the jealous Beck got tired of waiting, the pair killed the woman and her two-year-old daughter and buried them in the basement.

Police officers, challenged by Fernandez himself, searched the home and found the makeshift grave. Beck and Fernandez confessed readily in the belief that their lives were safe in the non-capital punishment state of Michigan. But they didn’t count on being extradited to New York, where the electric chair was an option. At the last minute they attempted an insanity defense, but were unable to convince the jury.

Their depraved story was the subject of a particularly sordid 1969 movie The Honeymoon Killers.

The Lonely Hearts Killers are executed | March 8, 1951 | HISTORY

The Lonely Hearts Killers, aka Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez, are executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in New York. The couple had schemed to seduce, rob and murder women who placed personal ads in newspapers. Beck and Fernandez boasted to killing as many as 17 women...

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