Original title
De Villamoord
Released
1/15/2020
Origin country
NL
Genre
Documentary
Status
Returning series
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
6
A documentary series about possibly the biggest miscarriage of justice in the Netherlands. The makers conduct research on the basis of unique material, including 160 interrogation tapes. Were nine men innocently imprisoned for years?
In 1998 an elderly woman is murdered in a villa in Arnhem. A friend of hers miraculously survives the assassination attempt. A group of nine men is convicted of this murder. Nevzat Altay receives the highest sentence, 12 years in prison. But from the start he says he is innocent. In the past twenty years, he appears to have done everything possible to challenge his conviction. His life has been ruined and he is still looking for reparation. That is why he and his lawyer ask for a review of the murder case. A reconstruction that provides a unique insight into the investigation of the police and the judiciary, based on 160 interrogation tapes of the police, the police file and conversations with forty people involved. The big question is what exactly happened that fatal evening. And is the police file correct?
In 1998 an elderly woman is murdered in a villa in Arnhem. A friend of hers miraculously survives the assassination attempt. A group of nine men is convicted of this murder. One of them, Dave Kuils, commits suicide in prison shortly after sentencing. In his suicide note, he insists he is innocent. More than twenty years later, Dave's sister is still searching for the truth: what went wrong in this police investigation? How did the nine men come into the picture so suddenly? And what happened in those interrogation rooms? More than 160 interrogation tapes show how the convicted men were put under pressure for hours by the detectives, including team leader Ad Baars, the man who also led the Putten murder case.
Nine men plan a major burglary in a villa in Arnhem in 1998, in which the lady of the house is shot dead in her bedroom. A friend of hers is slightly injured and is left for dead. The nine men are caught a few months later and then disappear behind bars for five to twelve years. But did it really happen? Are these men guilty? And if not, what could have happened?
The first season of the journalistic docuseries De Villamoord was called 'stunning' and 'sensational' by TV critics. On the basis of interrogation tapes and their own research, the makers reconstructed the bizarre story behind the police investigation into the Arnhem murder case from 1998. Nine, mainly Turkish men, were convicted on the basis of a false confession. In this 3-part sequel, the investigation into this murder case is further unraveled. Criminals, prostitutes and cops tell what really happened behind the scenes at the police. How nine men had to disappear behind bars at all costs.
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