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On December 31 2012, a two year old Cape Town boy is reported missing by his mother. She joins the massive police search for her child. But after the investigation begins, the story takes a turn, and she confesses to her son’s murder. This film tries to explain how a mother’s natural instinct became twisted into a passion for hatred, and led to perhaps the most awful crime of all - killing her own child.
Sabido Productions
Five miniature heart-shaped tomb stones can be found in the graveyard on a dusty village in Pampierstad. All five had been killed by their mother. Is it madness which would lead a mother to commit such a crime, or does society at large have a role to play in preventing it? This thought-provoking film explores the dark side of the maternal bond, when love turns to hate in an instant.
Sabido Productions
This documentary examines the media frenzy that followed the murder of Marike de Klerk, former First Lady of South Africa, the investigation by a crack police team, and the trial of Luyanda Mboniswa that made international headlines. We explore the investigation and, using interviews with the forensic pathologist and investigating police officers, retell the story of a political assassination.
Tholeni, a normal, quite rural village in the Eastern Cape, was turned into a hunting ground for a serial killer in 2008. Villagers were gripped for three years as the killer preyed on women and children. We retrace the story of the attacker and the attacks, using police records and expert investigators. Sometimes the chase for justice is as fascinating in real life as it is in a thriller.
Sabido Productions
When Garrett Rodriguez left home in San Diego to seek his fortune in the marijuana fields of Northern California, friends and family warned him to be careful. Within a year he had vanished, starting off a series of bloody events that haunt Humboldt County to this day. Now, against the backdrop of marijuana legalization, Humboldt’s secretive outlaws are speaking out for the first time about Garrett’s fate and the group of vigilantes who tried to serve justice in a lawless land.
Lightbox/Fusion Media Network/Netflix
Who killed six year old beauty pageant queen JonBenét Ramsey in the dead of the night? Twenty years after the child’s body was discovered in the basement of the Ramsey family’s Boulder, Colorado home, the mystery remains unsolved. Writer and director Lawrence Schiller explores the story with exclusive images and interviews, and uncovers fresh information from those involved to tell the story of JonBenét’s killing like never before.
Mommy, My Killer
1 x 30’, 2014, HD
A Mother’s Madness
1 x 30’, 2014, HD
Murder Mountain
6 x 60’, 2018, HD
The Murder Of A Former First Lady
1 x 30’, 2014, HD
Sabido Productions
WS Productions, Inc/1895 Films
The Monster Among Us
1 x 60’, 2014, HD
The Murder Of JonBenét
2 x 60’ or 1 x 60’, 2016, HD
Crime