Netflix Spotlighting Fred & Rose West For Its Next ‘British Horror Story’​on April 16, 2025 at 6:30 am

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is turning to notorious serial killers Fred and Rose West for its next big true crime doc series.

Fred & Rose West: A British Horror Story will feature family members of some of the West’s victims speaking for the first time along with previously unseen police video and unheard audio recordings. Fred West, who died in 1995, is one of the UK’s most notorious serial killers, having murdered at least 12 young women between 1967 and 1987. He committed the majority of the murders with his second wife Rose West, who is still alive and is currently in prison.

Dropping on May 14, Netflix’s series will be split into three episodes, one titled “Fred”, one called “Rose” and the final named “The Trial”. The show follows 2022’s Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story, a hit docuseries about the appalling sexual abuse crimes of the former TV presenter.

Blink Films is producing the West show and Dan Dewsbury (Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America) is directing. “Making this series has been a huge undertaking for our team,” said Dewsbury. “Getting access to never before seen video, never before heard tapes, access to people who have never previously spoken about the case, whilst also balancing the sensitivities of the families, after decades of quiet heartbreak and strength, has been inspiring to be part of. We have huge respect for the police investigation which led to Fred and Rose West being held responsible for the crimes.”

A wealth of documentaries have aired down the years about the Wests including a Channel 5 series with exactly the same title as Netflix’s and another Blink Films-produced show called Fred and Rose West: The Real Story with Trevor McDonald.

Appropriate Adult, a Channel 4 drama series about the police investigation, won Dominic West a BAFTA in 2011.

The streamers are showing no sign of decreasing interest in true crime. Netflix is making both a documentary and a drama about the murder of Rachel Nickell, Amazon has just bought a whole package of true crime shows and Disney+ is preparing to launch Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes.

Dan Chambers, David Herman and Fiona Stourton are producing Fred & Rose West: A British Horror Story.