Channel 5 (UK) Documentaries

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil’s Triangle, is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and surface vessels allegedly disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Popular culture has attributed these disappearances to the paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial beings. The Bermuda documentary will show documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the incidents were inaccurately reported or embellished by later authors, and numerous official agencies have stated that the number and nature of disappearances in the region is similar to that in any other area of ocean.

This documentary examines the remarkable case of Issei Sagawa, who walked free from prison despite having killed and eaten a young woman in the early 1980s. The film interviews Sagawa alongside police officers, journalists and psychiatrists to piece together the shocking story of his crime and his subsequent rise to become a minor celebrity in Japan. In June 1981, police in Paris were alerted to the discovery of two suitcases containing human remains left by a small Asian man in the Bois de Boulogne park.

This is the story of British cannibal killer David Harker, who butchered a mother of four and boasted he'd eaten her flesh. It was a crime that shocked the country, and left a trail of human devastation in its wake, as David Harker played out a personal fantasy to become Britain's youngest serial killer.