A new true crime documentary series on Peacock will delve into some of the world’s most depraved and disgusting crimes, as well as the sadistic killers behind them.
Aptly titled The World’s Most Notorious Killers, each episode of the five-part series examines a different case.
Beginning with the horrific crimes of Fred and Rose West in Gloucester, England, the series then moves on to Austrian writer Jack Unterweger, who was later discovered to be a serial killer.
Elsewhere, it examines Belgium’s infamous serial killer, ‘The Monster’, the Australian case of Christopher Dawson and also includes an exclusive interview with convicted murderer Charles Sobhraj.
The series includes first-hand accounts from people involved in the crimes, including family members, former detectives and forensic scientists, to shed light on the murders.
Fred West appears in an exclusive clip shared with DailyMail.com from Peacock’s crime documentary series: The World’s Most Notorious Killers
An exclusive clip from the first episode, titled The West Murders, gives insight into the chilling case of Fred and Rose West, a couple who tortured, raped and brutally murdered 12 young women between the 1970s and 1990s.
The clip, shared with DailyMail.com, shows news reports from 1994 when police executed a search warrant at 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester, later renamed the House of Horrors, following an anonymous tip-off.
It was later discovered that she was the couple’s teenage daughter, Anne Marie West, who had run away from home.
Anne Marie had told police that her older sister, Heather, had been missing since 1987 and it became a running “joke” between her and her siblings that their father had murdered her and buried her in the backyard.
Cromwell Street’s victims – some of them teenagers, all of them women – were lodgers, nannies, students, hitchhikers and runaways. Fred, and sometimes Rose too, subjected them to brutal sexual assaults before mutilating or decapitating them.
“I thought we were looking for the body of just one girl,” a voice says in the clip, as police are shown lifting up paving stones and carrying boxes toward waiting police vans.
“These girls were tortured, raped and destroyed,” said another solemn voice, while another described Fred as a “psychopath.”
The second episode, The Vienna Strangler, sheds light on Austrian killer-turned-writer Jack Unterweger, who traveled between Austria and Los Angeles and carried out brutal attacks on women, most of whom were sex workers.
Heather West disappeared in 1987, but her remains were found in 1994, where it was discovered that she had been strangled seven years earlier, at the age of 16.
The first episode of the series offers insight into the chilling case of Fred and Rose West, a couple who tortured, raped and brutally murdered 12 young women between the 1970s and 1990s.
Fred and Rose West (pictured) tortured, raped and murdered at least 12 young women and girls, including members of their own family.
25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester, where the family lived and carried out their crimes.
He was eventually caught in Los Angeles after police recognized his trademark (strangling women using their bras or underwear) and he was arrested.
The third episode, titled The Monster of Belgium, focuses on pedophile and serial killer Marc Dutroux, known as The Monster, who held six girls hostage in his basement between 1995 and 1996.
The series then moves to the southern hemisphere, where, in an episode titled The Murder Down Under, the series looks at the disappearance of Lynnette Dawson, who disappeared in 1982.
Her husband, teacher Christopher Dawson, who was having an affair with his 16-year-old student, was later convicted of the murder, almost 40 years after the crime was committed.
The final episode, titled The Serpent, features an interview with serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who was accused of murdering at least a dozen Western tourists in Asia in the 1970s.
The Frenchman was released from prison in Nepal in December 2022 and sent back to France after serving 19 years of a life sentence. He will give a new televised interview in the series.
He World’s Most Notorious Killers will be available to stream on Peacock starting September 17.
