Related article: ‘In the Heights’ – Behind the Scenes and Full Commentary/Reactions from Cast & Crew This genuinely crafted documentary ties together police and media interviews, survivors recounts, one-on-one sit-downs with journalists and bereaved family members, along with the Nilsen’s chilling un-heard recordings on just how he effortlessly got away with murder for nearly five years. While Nilsen’s story has been told countless times in the form of films, television specials, dramatized retellings, and podcasts, this was the first time the accounts are being told from the killer’s very own voice. In his directorial debut, Michael Harte (‘Don’t F**k With Cats’, ‘Three Identical Strangers’) unravels the story using thousands of written pages and over 250 hours of cassette records recorded by Nilsen himself in his jail cell where he describes in detail his life leading up to the gruesome crimes he committed. This is the man who disturbingly once referred to himself as the “murderer of the century”.
‘Memories of a Murder: The Nilsen Tapes’ is Netflix’s most recently released true-crime documentary that dives deep into the mind of one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers: Dennis Nilsen.
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