Director: 22. | Director: Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation. Documentary, Crime, History. Stars: Director: Dolores Canales, TV-MA Follows events and characters surrounding the January 6th, 2021 insurrection of the U.S. Capital Building in the days preceding the attack. This award-winning documentary from the '80s explores the wrongful arrest and conviction of Randall Adams, sentenced to life in prison for murdering a police officer. Lucie Jourdan | Director: | Cutie and the Boxer. Stars: | McCollum was found guilty and sentenced to death at her first trial but later avoided execution by winning an insanity plea. A hallmark of his career was the ability to keep his evidential distance from any of the violence and other crime from which he undoubtedly profited. Raoul Moat, [20], In 2014, Sean "Tommy" Adams and 13 other people believed to be affiliated with the Clerkenwell Crime Syndicate were arrested in a police operation codenamed "Octopod". $0.61M, TV-MA Stars: Eight months later, their chief money launderer, 48-year-old Solly Nahome, was gunned down on his doorstep by a hitman riding pillion on a motorbike. Kim Wall, PG-13 | Minutes earlier he'd sung "It's Not Unusual" down the phone to his wife, Joanna Barnes, in anticipation of a Tom Jones concert. They were the bad boys of hockey - a team bought by a man with mob ties, run by his 17 year old son, and with a rep for being as violent as they were good. [126] In a bit to knock Patsy Adams and his family, Davenport told the woman to seduce Patsy Adams and destruct him from recovering the money. [127] Before leaving the country, Davenport "worked" on Patsy Adams and his family, hoping that his female friend will help to divert Pat Adams' attention from recovering the 8.5 million pound debt from him [128] Having fled to Thailand and taken the money with him, Davenport knocked the Adams family for millions of pounds. In the following months, a gang of thieves used the car to conduct ram raids on petrol stations and jewelry shops, stealing around 20,000 worth of jewelry. Joker Gang, Stars: [74], Tommy Adams was charged with involvement in the handling of Brink's-MAT gold bullion but in 1985 was cleared of involvement in the laundering of the proceeds during a high-profile Old Bailey trial with co-defendant Kenneth Noye. 114 min | After September the 11th, Scotland Yard began diverting manpower and resources away from fighting organised crime, and towards the war on terror. Director: The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist. [109] Adams, together with his wife was charged in October 2015 with attempted murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life. Documentary, Biography, Crime. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn't stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction. | The story of Theranos, a multi-billion dollar tech company, its founder Elizabeth Holmes, the youngest self-made female billionaire, and the massive fraud that collapsed the company. New Hatton Garden heist theory claims involvement of crime family A sexual wellness company gains fame and followers for its practice of "orgasmic meditation" until members come forward with disturbing allegations. [45] Starting out as an armed robber, he worked his way up the criminal career and was involved in West End protection rackets together with his brothers. Andy Baker leaving court in May of 2006. With Carolyn Jones, John Astin, Jackie Coogan, Ted Cassidy. For two decades he walked around freely, all while 13 people were kept in the police witness protection scheme, some after giving evidence against him when he was prosecuted and then acquitted for kidnap, extortion and murder. Terrorism Close Calls. Documentary, Biography, Crime. Stars: | Amy Berg 49,048 83 min Lucille Gall, TV-MA 118 min [118], On a separate occasion Adams instructed Schillings solicitors to sue two police officers each of whom posted selfies on Instagram with Adams handcuffed in a police custody suite,[118] when he was not in a position to object to being photographed. Director: Following the style of some of the world's most prolific street artists, an amateur filmmaker makes a foray into the art world. Gum Gang, Documentary, Biography, Crime. Mike Dowd, Days after 9/11, letters containing fatal anthrax spores spark panic and tragedy in the US. This documentary follows the subsequent FBI investigation. The Cornerman's story starts in the early 1990s, in Chelsea's high society nightclubs. Fox on Parkinson's and how he finds "optimism is sustainable", Preview: Michael J. Documentary, Crime. Later that month Terry Adams paid back an additional 50,000 to Westminster Magistrates Court despite claiming poverty to avoid returning to prison for non payment of court costs. 94 min Director: [79] Nan Talese, David Bagby, Stars: When journalist Kim Wall disappears after boarding inventor Peter Madsen's submarine, his changing story about her fate masks a terrifying truth. | 99 min 109 min Documentary, Crime. Marcus Allen, Not Rated Last week the Adams family crime syndicate was targeted in a series of raids by more than 200 police officers on 22 homes in North London. Further corroboration of Baker's alleged involvement in the Wynter and Nahome murders came from an unlikely source his ex-wife. Stars: | Joe Berlinger, Director: Bart Layton | Stars: Adam O'Brian, Nicholas Barclay, Carey Gibson, Bryan Gibson. Roger Parloff, R 50,301 A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas. David Farrier, Adams was ordered to pay 650,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act. The arrests were linked to conspiracy to assault, money laundering, fraud and revenue offences.[21][22]. Clark Gregg, Adams pled guilty and was given a nine-month sentence, suspended for 12 months. Michael Dowd stole money and dealt drugs while patrolling the streets of 80s Brooklyn. [10] Two of his younger brothers were under surveillance by the MI5 and police in Spain. In the black community, the McCollum case was spoken of only in whispers, said Tameka Hobbs, a history professor at Florida Memorial University who grew up in Live Oak. Bill Benneyan, TV-MA [104], Having been arrested and handcuffed, Adams was recovering from the trauma of the arrest in the police custody suite when two policeman walked in and without Adams consent, took photographs of him handcuffed, and circulated it with the press. It's Me, Margaret. A documentary centered on a young man in Spain who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3 years. Liz Garbus Stars: [6] Merle Bean, | [54] His first was a wallet theft in Angel, Islington which made him 10 (which equals 197 in 2023) which he used to buy a new leather dog collar for his dog also named Tommy, and a pair of Adidas trainers for himself. "I've never met Wynter or had anything to do with him, and I told the police that.". A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence. [17] In May 2007 Terry Adams has been ordered to repay 4.7 million in legal aid and pay prosecution costs of 800,000.[18][10]. Alan Berg, $2.96M, TV-MA | [51] Despite being brought up as an Irish Catholic, Adams became disillusioned with the faith when he was 12 years old after an incident with his mother. Jim Benemann, David Harris, Stars: Brother in the notorious Adams Family is jailed for cheating taxman Ken Lanning, Arnold Friedman, 94 min | [73] After acquiring the rights to Patrick Cox brand, Lord Davenport kept the 2.5 million and moved the stock from Cox's Chelsea studio to 33 Portland Place, keeping the designer shoes for himself. | 92 min As a child, growing up in poverty he used to steal food from the school buffet and from the market stalls in Islington. He comes with a pedigree, as one of a family whose name had a currency all of its own in the underworld. Ava DuVernay Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence. Posing as a wealthy, jet-setting diamond mogul, he wooed women online, then conned them out of millions of dollars. According to a well-placed Adams insider, it would be ten years before the police revealed the man's name to Nahome's widow: Andy Baker. Randall Adams, Jesse Friedman, Known as the A-team", "The real-life mob family that inspired Gangs of London? 97 min | They were three of the most feared brothers in Britain, heading a notorious organised crime family linked to 25 murders during a 30-year reign of terror. Sam McCollum Jr., one of McCollum's children, told the filmmakers that a white doctor in the Jim Crow-era South was akin to a "God in the community.". 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Documentary, Biography, Crime. Support for the theory came from a former associate of both men, David Duff, who was taken into the witness protection scheme in 2003 after a fallout with Baker. "But with older folks there's still a great divide. 102 min With Ted Cassidy, Jackie Coogan, Cindy Henderson, John Stephenson. Clerkenwell crime syndicate - Wikipedia Adams, the eldest of 11 children, started as a street thug in Islington, North London, extorting money from market stall holders, but quickly moved into armed robbery - and then drugs. Baker was in London and has no alibi for the time of the shooting. Director: | Busted: The fall of Britain's most ruthless gangster 82 min Check out these must-watch true crime documentaries streaming now on Hulu. Director: [11] The family is believed to have connections with various criminal organisations, specifically with South American drug cartels and Cosa Nostra.[12]. 19,488 | Jessie Misskelley, The story chimed with other police intelligence, which linked the Wynter and Nahome murders to a land deal in Lancashire. Katie Green, One of these was a divan bed delivery company. Adams was sentenced to nine years imprisonment having admitted shooting Paul Tiernan with a .45 calibre pistol in December 2013. ", Best movies and TV shows to stream this week: ''The Power,' 'Great Expectations' and more, "Paint" star Owen Wilson on his "incredible" luck. Director: 467 min Becca Baggenstoss, TV-14 Regan Burns, Documentary, Comedy, Crime. Director: [129], In June 2017 George Adams was involved in a shooting at his flat in Islington where Danis Salih who owed him 200,000 was wounded during a shooting. He admitted a single specimen money-laundering offence on 7 February 2007, and was jailed for seven years; he was released on 24 June 2010, but was recalled to prison in August 2011 for breaching his licence. | Documentary, Crime. Huie's conclusion didn't seem right to the documentary's producer Jude Hagin, a Florida film commissioner who discovered Huie's book 14 years ago. Talent Chioma Mundy-Castle, [129] Until Patsy's arrest and imprisonment in 2017, George Adams successfully operated a close protection racket together with his father from his house in Islington. This documentary explores the depth behind the case of a woman whose vehicle collision killed numerous people, including herself. [3], The shooting of the then 68-year-old "Mad" Frankie Fraser, a former enforcer for The Richardson Gang, in July 1991 was said to have been ordered by the Adams family though Fraser said he had been targeted by rogue police. Success "He's got a natural cunning when it comes to making money.". Danis was later arrested for possession of ammunition without a firearms certificate and possession of cocaine and other drugs recovered by police from his home. The Case: Filming on what would become a three-part documentary series began just a few weeks after the bodies of three eight-year-old boys were found in West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993. [69], In 2014 Tommy Adams met businessman Dave Sullivan,[70] the producer of The Rise of the Krays, who offered to buy 33 Portland Place for 25 million. The first film takes a look at the faulty police investigation into the three teenage boys - Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jesse Misskelley, best known as the West Memphis 3 -- who end up being convicted . $3.29M, 121 min The Clerkenwell Crime Syndicate | The Story Of The Most Dangerous Crime Family In London -Full Story Street Crime UK 51.9K subscribers Join Subscribe 225 26K views 1 year ago The. Nickole Atkinson, [105][2] Teirnan was tasked by the MI5 to pose as a criminal to obtain security-related information from one of the inmates at HMP Pentonville and met Adams during that assignment. Charity Lee, I thought he was a bit of a geezer that liked to drop loads of names. In The Family I Had, a mother recalls how her brilliant teenage son came to shatter their idyllic family through one horribly violent and shocking act. | Gross: In August 2011 he appeared before City of London Magistrates court charged with 8 breaches of his Financial Reporting Order imposed upon him in 2007. | The story of the Danbury Trashers. Bryan Gibson, Votes: | Criminals, detectives and crime reporters spread gossip that rival gangsters, perhaps from overseas, had ordered the contract killings, or that the murders were the twisted outgrowth of an internal feud. 'Broken Harts' Review: Examining a Family Tragedy "Andy was the brightest of a bunch of goons [working] for Gilbert," said the insider. Stars: Sarah Gibson, Documentary, Crime. She was eventually moved to a state mental hospital, and then freed in 1974 after the state's high court found her legally insane. Like Miami mobsters, Terry, Patrick and Tommy Adams lived large, broke bones or worse and paid off dirty cops and men in suits for "koshering up" their criminal proceeds. Hagin hopes the documentary helps inspire funding for a feature film, which actor James Brolin has signed on to direct, should they get the money. Last year, however, Baker's cockiness and choice of loose-lipped sidekicks finally proved his undoing when he was jailed for 11 years and six months on drugs and blackmail charges. David Farrier, Please enter valid email address to continue. But was he also behind two of London's most notorious gangland killings? The senseless murder of 16-year-old Ben Kinsella provoked a vengeful reaction from the Adams family, the underworld gang that once ruled north London. | Gross: In a confiscation hearing on 27 February 2020, Adams had his available assets determined by the Judge to be 1,243,270.75 and a Confiscation Order was made against him for that sum. Andy Baker declined to answer questions about the murders of Wynter and Nahome, which the Met are still investigating. | Watch: God Forbid. Director: Space Invader, Sloane Klevin 82 min The one that started it all, Errol Morris's The Thin Blue Line created the blueprint for the true crime documentary. [107] Teirnan accused Adams and his wife in blowing his cover and revealing to others that Teirnan was an MI5 agent, and threatened to shoot Adams and his wife outside their flat in Islington with his 45 calibre pistol which Adams managed to wrestle from Teirnan, accidentally wounding him. John Hodgman, | On 18 May 2007 Adams was ordered to pay 4.8 million in legal fees to three law firms who had initially represented him under the UK's free legal aid scheme. After a woman's at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor. Crime boss Tommy Adams scrambling to sell London home to avoid seven | Alex Gibney, | He was handed a six-month sentence suspended for two years and was also given a one-year supervision order and told to pay compensation. Stars: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Marilyn Manson, | The Clerkenwell Crime Syndicate, also known as the Adams Family or the A-Team, [3] [4] is a criminal organisation, allegedly one of the most powerful in the United Kingdom. Cutie and the Boxer follows the inspiringbut turbulent40-year relationship of two Japanese-born artists living in New York. Top 50 Crime Documentaries - IMDb Cutie and the Boxer - Trailer. | Documentary, Crime, Mystery. Michelle Alexander, | | "Ken had been very close to Gilbert for decades and had stayed with Solly and Jo when he was down from Manchester. Carlye Rubin ", Spooner said he was unaware of the threat to his life from Wynter until the police mentioned it to him ten years later, while investigating Baker for the suspected murder of a prison guard of which he was acquitted. ", First published on January 1, 2015 / 1:17 PM. He received a six months sentence, suspended for a year. Victoria's Secret: Angels & Demons A documentary centered on a young man in Spain who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3 years. Stars: $0.15M, TV-MA Mark Jamieson, 96 min 76,915 Having searched Danis' home the police found 8mm bullets and drugs. Director: | Sean "Tommy" Adams gained high-profile public attention during a trial in 2004, when he was described as having attended a meeting in 2002 at the request of the former football international Kenny Dalglish. ", In 1997, Baker stepped up when Wynter went to visit his mother in Jamaica. Syndicate boss Terry Adams, 63, was jailed for seven years in 2007 for . Luke Epple, They planned to sell sand excavated from the quarry to builders and fill the hole with waste from the forthcoming 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. The family is said to be one of the most powerful crime syndicates in the country and have been linked to up to 25 murders. | Dee Dee Blanchard, [93] By 1980s when still in his youth, Adams began to develop reputation as one the most violent figures of London's underworld[24] after he cut off part of Frankie Fraser son's ear during a fallout over money which really angered the Krays. | [83], Adams was brought up the Sixties in the Barnsbury area of Islington, North London. "Baker earns 300 a week from us as a security consultant. | Banksy 150 min Terry Woods, $4.31M, 96 min Dick Clay, TV-MA | Alison Becker, Kristy Galeota, R Documentary, Crime, Mystery. Melina Abdullah, Gay Talese, Having acquired the freehold of the building with funds from the Adams family, Davenport used 33 Portland Place as his private residence and a nightclub, whilst Tommy Adams, despite being the official co-owner of the property, was not even invited to Davenport's high society events as he had a reputation of a gangster, wore shell suits and trainers and was a resident of a council estate. | The book relied on recovered-memory therapy to uncover Michelle's abduction by baby-stealing Satanists. This shocking documentary chronicles a happy-go-lucky nomad's ascent to viral stardom and the steep downward spiral that resulted in his imprisonment. [108] Teirnan requested to see Adams in Islington in December 2013 when Adams was briefly visiting his family in London. Richard O'Barry, | Documentary, Crime, Mystery. | Skye Borgman | Gross: Also, McCollum testified that Adams had a friend deliver the baby they had together and that she never received a birth certificate. Chris Charles Scott III Stars: He was placed on the same wing as a friend of Lord Edward Davenport. Documentary, Crime. She died in 1992. In November of 1998, the Adams family suffered a second blow when Solly Nahome was shot dead on his doorstep in Finchley. Philippe Petit, 38,260 Cory Booker, Duff claimed to the police that Baker had admitted murdering Wynter with the help of a childhood friend at a flat in Chelsea, to take over his security operation and retain Spooner as a "golden goose" client. Sigridur Benediktsdottir, Votes: Jan Broberg, James Marsh "I never had any contact with [the Adams] family," said Spooner. Designer watches, six shotguns and large sums of money were found in other addresses across the city, with a concentration in north London. David Blanchard, God Forbid premieres on Hulu Tuesday, November 1. Directors: Director: | "The stuff about the land deal is right," said the Adams insider. Jason Baldwin, [94] 117 min Debora Guetta, Votes: Julie Harmon, Stars: The young Baker started off as a bouncer in the Epsom, Surrey area where he was born, before catching his big break working for a group of well-heeled young nightclub entrepreneurs behind the Po Na Na group known as "the plums" who provided the Negronis and nights out to A-list celebrities and the Sloanie set. 38. A nightclub source close with knowledge of this relationship claimed the plums enjoyed the frisson of having Baker around: "They're almost Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels-type characters public schoolboys running clubs and someone's said, 'You need a gangster looking after you, sunshine,' and they've sucked it all up and thought it was rather glamorous.". Inside the Criminal Mind. A filmmaker decides to memorialize a murdered friend when his friend's ex-girlfriend announces she is expecting his son. [132], Danis Salih, 44, armed with a gun, came to George Adams place in Islington to settle the 200.000 debt but could not pay in full. [36] His fashion label's website states: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, Our name is an affectionate homage to Angel, Islington where head designer, Terrence Adams, was born and raised. [95]During his imprisonment he got into fitness, used the gym regularly and developed a good physique. [87][88] His first convictions at the age of 10 included stealing a Christmas Turkey from a carvery in Islington[89] on Christmas Day and robbing a festive gift shop on New Year's Eve in order to get a Christmas gift for his mother. [127], Member of the Adams family and son of Patsy Adams, George Adams has burglary and firearm related convictions dating back to 2010 when he was 21 years old. | Stars: Richard Brosal, James Galante, A.J. Gypsy Rose Blanchard, PG-13 When a judge ordered that he surrender some of his profits or. During an 18-month bugging operation by MI5,[3] Terry Adams was recorded speaking about his brother in very strident terms and suggesting that, in 1998 at least, relations between them were kept to a minimum. Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens. [123] She later came to visit him but it did not go any further. Danis admitted possession of ammunition without a firearms certificate and possession of 27 tablets of Alprazolam, 26.9 grams of cannabis, 3.02 grams of cocaine and 1.83 grams of opium. Directors: Heather Woock, TV-MA | In his telling, McCollum's relationship with Adams was consensual, and she became a drug addict and killed him after losing her mind. "He was always immaculate, almost dandy-like in the way he dressed and with his cane. Watch True Crime Documentaries | Netflix Official Site Jenny Popplewell Nelson Yester, The Inland Revenue was suspicious enough to ask Terry Adams to explain how he had amassed his personal fortune including his 2 million house and his collection of valuable antiques. [117] Adams instructed privacy lawyers Schillings to obtain an injunction to restrict publication of those photographs as he could not object to being photographed. Sean Horlor [71] Davenport used the money to pay off the compensation order imposed by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), which left him with 12 million profit. | Stars: One gangster used this new breathing space wisely. | Trump motion to declare mistrial in E. Jean Carroll lawsuit denied, U.S. to let Afghan evacuees renew temporary legal status, Tornado hits Virginia Beach, likely damaging hundreds of homes. Was she really the reckless drunk, or the perfect suburban mother? The Raincoat Killer: Chasing a Predator in Korea. Herman Koto, Stars: Documentary, Crime. District Judge Quentin Purdy said he was "shrewd and calculating"You wilfully and, in my judgment, arrogantly sought to frustrate the effect of a financial reporting order, well knowing that a significant confiscation order remains largely unpaid. With Carolyn Jones, John Astin, Jackie Coogan, Ted Cassidy. | | Money from crime in Manchester was collected and sent to Tommy via trusted associates. Documentary, Crime. Woman sues police who saved her from Adams crime family for | Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) Truly one of the most devastating true crime documentaries ever produced, Dear Zachary is an absolutely unbelievable story that will . [35] Later that year he made an appearance at the London Fashion Week where his collection was displayed. [9], The syndicate is allegedly heavily involved in drug trafficking and extortion as well as poisonings of the rivals[10] and hijacking of gold bullion shipments and security fraud. While Gomez and Morticia were away bat hunting, Mama resumed her old bad habit of fortune telling, which soon snags her an arrest on a municipal code violation. Meet the dirtiest cop in NYC history.