‘The Asunta case‘, the series of Netflix that recreates the murder of Asunta Basterra, has already climbed to the top of the platform’s ranking in Spain. The production stars Candela Pena and Tristán Ulloa, who play the girl’s adoptive parents who were sentenced to 18 years in prison accused of her death. Mother, Rosario Portohe would not be able to fulfill them, because he committed suicide in prison.
In recent years, Spanish fiction has begun to recreate some cases of the recent black chronicle of the country in the form of a series and, above all, a documentary. Here we propose five of them if you liked ‘The Asunta Case’, apart, of course, from the docuseries that already addressed the same murder, with the same title and created by the same production company, Bambú, which is also available on Netflix.
Another media case, that of crime of the Urban Guardinspires this series of Netflix. The appearance of a charred corpse inside a car in the Foix reservoir (Barcelona) in May 2017 uncovers a crime in which the Barcelona police force is involved: both the victim, Pedro Rodríguez (José Manuel Poga)like those convicted of murder, Rosa Peral (Úrsula Corberó) and Albert López (Quim Gutiérrez)were members of the Urban Guard.
Crims / Light in the Dark / Tor
He crime of the Urban Guard is one of the many cases that this TV3 docuseries created by Carles Porta, available on the 3Cat platform. It can also be seen in Movistar Plus+ and on Netflix as ‘Crimes’. The Catalan journalist has also created another ‘true crime’ for the Telefónica platform, ‘Light in the darkness’and in 3Cat and TV3 has just released another docuseries about a case that has obsessed him for three decades, that of the murders in a small town in the Catalan Pyrenees, Tor.
Dolores: the truth about the Wanninkhof case
The case of the murder of the young woman Rocío Wanninkhof in 1999, in the province of Malaga, it has inspired several docuseries. Like this six-episode one available on HBO Max and Mitele that addresses the mistakes that led to prison Dolores Vazquez, the ex-partner of the victim’s mother. The woman explains the consequences that the sentence that led her to prison had on her life. Netflix also addresses the same crime in the documentary film ‘The Wanninkhof-Carabantes case’which also delves into the murder of the young woman Sonia Carabantes.
docuseries five episodes from the same production company as ‘The Asunta Case’, which analyzes the most high-profile murder in recent decades in Spain: that of the three teenagers from Alcàsser (València), Míriam, Desirée and Toñi, whose bodies appeared in November 1992, after several months without having any clues about the girls. In addition to including interviews, the work reviews the evidence again.
Before Spanish true crime became fashionable, TVE had already recreated some of the most notorious murders in Spain during the 19th and 20th centuries in the series ‘The Trace of Crime’. Throughout the three stages issued (1985, 1991 and 2009)some of the best directors and performers of Spanish cinema gathered (Terele Pávez, Sancho Gracia, Carmen Maura, Victoria Abril, Carlos Larrañaga, Juan Echanove…). It can be seen in RTVE Play.
