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Driven by the belief that there’s always more to the story, Unseen delves beyond the headlines to uncover the quiet resilience, courage, and humanity at the heart of real cases. With a focus on the untold and the overlooked, Unseen shines a light on what’s often left in the shadows, creating moments of connection and understanding.
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On July 13th 2007, a woman is found murdered in the middle of the night. Her husband, who was asleep upstairs, immediately becomes the prime suspect, but police have no idea that the true culprit, a masked serial killer, has already struck again, miles away, leaving a trail of crime scenes undetected along the Northeastern US. However, everything changes when he breaks into the bedroom of 15-year-old Shea McDonough, who will team up with her entire family to make sure the killer is brought to justice for all of his crimes.
Jeannie McDonough, Shea’s mom, wrote a book detailing her family’s intense ordeal and fight for justice titled “Caught in the Act: A Courageous Family's Fight to Save Their Daughter from a Serial Killer.” It can be purchased here: https://www.amazon.ca/Caught-Act-Courageous-Family...
Credits:
Directing, writing, & editing by Maxime Desrochers
Researched by Tianyi Zhang
Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader
Voiceover by William Akana
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Sources:
48 Hours Mystery Live to Tell Hunting Humans - CBS News I survived a serial killer 2013 - E! Entertainment Television Dateline NBC S17 E66 A stranger in the house - Dateline NBC The Coroner: I Speak for the Dead - airing on Investigation Discovery; Production Company: Finch Productions Murder on Main Street: Nightmare Next Door - Investigation Discovery Hunting Humans 2002 : production company Kangas Kahn Films; distribution company IFM World Releasing News ABC News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r3OhxMakVw CNN News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8wDUEXz9Go&t=49s CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/extra-victims-advoca...
Driven by the belief that there’s always more to the story, Unseen delves beyond the headlines to uncover the quiet resilience, courage, and humanity at the heart of real cases. With a focus on the untold and the overlooked, Unseen shines a light on what’s often left in the shadows, creating moments of connection and understanding.
It's 1978, and Ron Jenkins, a detective with the Huntington police department, suddenly straightens up on his couch at home, unable to look away from the TV. The popular "Dating Game" is on, where a young bachelorette, Cheryl Bradshaw, is blind dating 3 men, and Bachelor no. 1 is terrifyingly familiar to Detective Jenkins. That same afternoon, a parole officer called him to identify a suspected serial killer from a sketch, giving him a name: Rodney Alcala—that man is the same one who's on TV now, winning the show. However, the Dating Game Killer has no idea that his 8 year old victim from years ago is actually alive, and that she will be the one to ultimately take him down.
Credits:
Directing, writing & editing by Justin Chalifoux
Research & script revision by Manon Lafosse & Tanvi Rajvanshi
Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader
Voiceover by William Akana
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ABC 20/20 Discovery+ /
Surviving a Serial Killer
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
True Crime Central
Peninsula Television Production
Woodcut Media Production
Sky
CBS / 48 Hours
A&E Television Network
ABC News
Reelz Channel
Investigation Discovery
Make Believe Media
HLN Prime News
CNN
Orange County Register
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Driven by the belief that there’s always more to the story, Unseen delves beyond the headlines to uncover the quiet resilience, courage, and humanity at the heart of real cases. With a focus on the untold and the overlooked, Unseen shines a light on what’s often left in the shadows, creating moments of connection and understanding.
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On March 19th, 2018, 91 year old Mary Bartel is getting ready for her aerobics class, when she hears a loud knock at the door. On the other side, in an innocent looking disguise, is one of the most prolific serial killers in all of Texas history. As Mary unknowingly greets Billy Chemirmir, she must now fight for her survival and try to remember everything she can about him, or else he may never be stopped.
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Credits:
Directing & editing by Matthew Rice
Research by Tiffany Loxton
Writing by Manon Lafosse
Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader
Voiceover by William Akana
Sources:
Texas Crew Productions (Paramount: The Pillowcase Murders)
Driven by the belief that there’s always more to the story, Unseen delves beyond the headlines to uncover the quiet resilience, courage, and humanity at the heart of real cases. With a focus on the untold and the overlooked, Unseen shines a light on what’s often left in the shadows, creating moments of connection and understanding.
On January 15, 1974, 15-year-old Charlie Otero began his day like any other in Wichita, Kansas. His father dropped him off at school that morning, and everything seemed routine. But just hours later, Charlie returned home to a nightmare that would haunt him for decades. Inside his family home, Charlie discovered the bodies of his parents, Joseph and Julie Otero, along with his younger siblings, Joseph Jr. and Josephine. They had been brutally murdered.
The Otero family had become the first victims of a sadistic killer who would later be known as BTK—short for "Bind, Torture, Kill." With no evidence or clear suspects, the case plunged the Otero family into turmoil. Charlie, once an ordinary teenager, was left grappling with unimaginable grief and the constant fear that BTK might come for him next.
Meanwhile, BTK continued his killing spree, targeting more victims while taunting police and the media with letters detailing his crimes. Over the years, his messages grew bolder, mocking law enforcement’s inability to catch him. It would take 30 years to finally catch him, after taunting the police repeatedly, where Charlie would finally be able to confront his family’s killer face to face, and get his revenge.
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Driven by the belief that there’s always more to the story, Unseen delves beyond the headlines to uncover the quiet resilience, courage, and humanity at the heart of real cases. With a focus on the untold and the overlooked, Unseen shines a light on what’s often left in the shadows, creating moments of connection and understanding.
On July 21st, 1985, Australian single mother Andrea Blanchard lived in constant fear, hiding with her young daughter Trudi. Every time the phone rang, Andrea braced herself for the worst: another bomb had exploded, and this time, hundreds of people were severely injured. The terror that had gripped New South Wales for years was the work of the elusive Family Court Bomber—a man unbeknownst to authorities at the time to be Leonard Warwick.
For years, law enforcement had been unable to catch Warwick. The bombings continued, each one more horrific than the last. But Andrea knew something the cops didn’t—something that could finally put an end to the carnage. She knew what the Family Court Bomber wanted: her daughter, 7-year-old Trudi.
Andrea’s fear for her daughter's life pushed her to take matters into her own hands. She was determined to stop this madman, even if it meant putting herself in harm’s way. With no one else to rely on, Andrea became the only person capable of ending the bombings—and saving Trudi from becoming the bomber’s next target. But in the face of such unspeakable danger, would Andrea be able to outsmart a killer who had already eluded the authorities for so long?
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