The pair were arrested and released without charge in 1999 over an alleged shooting incident at a garage in west London, while a few years later Spooner stood surety for Baker when he was tried and acquitted of kidnapping a printer involved in the club business. Director: | Money from crime in Manchester was collected and sent to Tommy via trusted associates. 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 . 90 min He needed to hide the baby because it was around the time he was running for state senate. Stars: 32 years later, the painting was found hanging in a New Mexico home. 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 . Director: Involving an incestuous family, a sex trafficking ring and the unsolved disappearance of a young mother. She told him that Irish Catholics are taught to be self-sufficient and that their official doctrine teaches not to engage in robbery, and refused to accept the groceries Adams stole from a high street shop in Islington. Stars: A troubled journalist (Amy Adams) returns to her hometown to cover the apparent murders of two girls in this limited series. [6] | Ironically, one of the men he sent out to find answers was someone detectives suspected was behind the killings. Watch True Crime Documentaries | Netflix Official Site Heather Woock, TV-MA Netflix's 'Murder Among the Mormons' uses the same stereotypes about Bryan Gibson, Votes: | Gross: | Stars: Directors: [109], After being circulated as wanted by the Metropolitan Police and the Interpol, Adams lived in a two bedroom boathouse docked in a canal in Amsterdam with his wife Constance. A young mother's mysterious death and her son's subsequent kidnapping blow open a decades-long mystery about the woman's true identity and the murderous federal fugitive at the center of it all. William Black, Sloane Klevin [101], His last imprisonment in 1984 devastated his wife who begged him to leave crime and move abroad as she did not want him to get dragged into another conspiracy by his friends in London and go to prison again. | [112] Upset that Adams does not want to engage in any criminal conspiracies and wants to continue running his legitimate property business, Teirnan pointed a gun at him and begun threatening to shoot him and take out other members of his family one by one,[111] hoping that by bullying he will make Adams change his mind. Puppet Master Netflix: New TV series tells shocking tale of Robert Documentary, Crime. | Stars: Documentary, Crime, Mystery. Dean Barrow, Randall Adams, Brother in the notorious Adams Family is jailed for cheating taxman "I've never met Wynter or had anything to do with him, and I told the police that.". | Baker is in turn linked to a Newcastle based violent criminal who fits the description of the suspect. [130], In November 2010 George Adams was arrested stealing 2,000 of stock from Zee & Co boutique in Upper Street, Islington. 114 min | Andri Snr Magnason, Elizabeth Holmes, [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. Want more true crime? Nan Talese, | | At the time, in December 2014, of the death of a bankrupt businessman Scot Young, who had been involved in 2013 in a high-profile divorce case, media reports that flagged Young's involvement with Patrick Adams asserted that Tommy Adams and Michael Adams faced no charges after their arrest earlier in 2014. Stars: 109 min | | | Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health. Stars: Jenny Popplewell [47] [76] Having acquired the rights and the stock, Davenport tried to make licensing deals abroad using the Patrick Cox name without Patrick Cox's approval. The story chimed with other police intelligence, which linked the Wynter and Nahome murders to a land deal in Lancashire. | Walter Yurkiw, [10] Two of his younger brothers were under surveillance by the MI5 and police in Spain. | Documentary, Crime. Jon Alpert Nicholas Barclay, Stars: McCollum had been receiving injections of some kind of intoxicating substance from Adams, but it was unclear whether she sought them out or he used the drugs to take advantage of her. Documentary, Crime. Director: 97 min Diane Schuler, Documentary, Crime, History. A sexual wellness company gains fame and followers for its practice of "orgasmic meditation" until members come forward with disturbing allegations. Errol Morris' award-winning 1988 documentary presents compelling evidence that Randall Adams was wrongfully convicted of killing a police officer in Dallas, Texas. | Documentary, Crime, Music. Jay Schuler, Not Rated Kai Lawrence, [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. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Later, in the late 70s he began selling waterbeds when he realised that those started becoming popular in England and by 1976 were in high demand. James Marsh It's Me, Margaret. Andrew Jarecki Joe Berlinger, Director: Bart Layton | Stars: Adam O'Brian, Nicholas Barclay, Carey Gibson, Bryan Gibson. By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy & to receive electronic communications from Vice Media Group, which may include marketing promotions, advertisements and sponsored content. Director: He was sentenced to nine months on the ammunition and one month concurrent on each of the drugs offences suspended for 21 months. Brad Mulcahy, Not Rated [97], In January 1994 Adams was investigated in connection with theft of Lotus Carlton 40 RA,[99] a 377-horsepower high performance saloon car with a top speed of 176mph which was used to raid petrol stations and jewelry shops and was last seen when chased by the police driving at the speed of 150mph northbound, up the M6 towards Scotland. [27], In March 2017 Adams lost his appeal against the order to pay 700,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act. Maclain Way James Galante, | Best Crime TV Shows | Watch on HBO | Stream on HBO Max Designer watches, six shotguns and large sums of money were found in other addresses across the city, with a concentration in north London. | [46], As a child, Tommy Adams suffered from asthma and was taken to the emergency room at the University College Hospital almost weekly due to him waking up unable to breathe. Notorious Adams crime family thought to be behind Hatton Garden heist . "Baker was my security consultant, who negotiated rates with security companies and made sure we were with the right ones that didn't have gangsters behind them," Spooner explained. [116], Adams was arrested in Amsterdam on 7 August 2015 during a complex joint surveillance operation by the MI5 and the Interpol, involving face recognition technology and satellites. He was convicted for running a money laundering operation with his associates, which was foiled in 2014 when undercover police heard him discussing the illicit activity at a central London caf in Hatton Garden. $0.87M, 77 min | One of these was a divan bed delivery company. | In 1998, Tommy Adams was convicted of organising an 8m hashish smuggling operation, and was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. Erlend Ofte Arntsen, R Directors: | The one that started it all, Errol Morris's The Thin Blue Line created the blueprint for the true crime documentary. 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. [74] He never gave Adams a pair nor paid back the funds Adams lent him to acquire the brand. 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. criminal organisation, allegedly one of the most powerful in the United Kingdom. Syndicate boss Terry Adams, 63, was jailed for seven years in 2007 for . 22. (disclaimer - fair use based on research and studying ) The Adams family led a criminal organisation, reported to be worth millions and MI5 were tasked with bringing them down. Documentary, Crime. | Stars: Documentary, Crime. Daniel Vernon Photo: EDB Image Archive / Alamy Stock Photo. Stars: Documentary, Biography, Crime. | Documentary, Crime, Sport. 97 min Was she really the reckless drunk, or the perfect suburban mother? 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.". He received a six months sentence, suspended for a year. Stars: [63], Despite investing millions in properties and having several children with different women, Tommy Adams continued living on his own in a one bedroom council flat near the family's traditional Islington base, wearing tracksuit and having beans on toast for dinner. Stars: 91 min Stars: Director: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Colette Camden He comes with a pedigree, as one of a family whose name had a currency all of its own in the underworld. | Cory Booker, Documentary, Crime. An exclusive behind the scenes look at the infamous unraveling of the Fyre music festival. Mark Jamieson, 96 min Adams had committed no crime when he was sentenced to die for the 1976 slaying of a Dallas police officer, but it wasn't until the 1988 documentary The Thin Blue Line made Adams' case a cause . "But with older folks there's still a great divide. | [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. [6] Having expanded over years, today it includes younger members of the Adams family and close friends. A.J. Shiyuan Deng, TV-MA The couple hadn't been married long, and had a baby daughter. Michael Moore, 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.