UPDATE: |Netflix’s Fred and Rose West documentary to feature ‘previously unseen and unheard’ details News

Unseen footage has been found of the convicted killers in a new three-part series

A new documentary to air on Netflix that looks at the serial killers Fred and Rose West has promised to feature “previously unseen police video and unheard audio recordings”.

Fred & Rose West: A British Horror Story will hear from the families impacted by the couple’s murderous spree, and explain how Gloucestershire Constabulary uncovered their crimes.

The documentary is directed by Dan Dewsbury, who worked on Hatton and Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America, and executive produced by Dan Chambers, David Herman and Fiona Stourton.

The couple tortured, raped and murdered an unknown number of women between 1967 and 1987, mostly at their home in Cromwell Street, Gloucester.

Fred married Rose in 1972, when she was 18. The pair had been having an affair since she was 15 and this was his second marriage.

Rose is currently serving a life sentence after being convicted in 1995 of murdering 10 young girls and women, including her daughter Heather and her stepdaughter Charmaine who was aged eight-years-old at the time of her death.

Meanwhile, Fred did not stand trial after taking his own life in prison in January 1995 after nine bones were found under the patio and cellar of the house.

It will be a three-part series that begins with Fred being questioned over Rose’s eldest daughter Heather, aged 16, going missing before her remains were uncovered at their home known as the “House of Horrors”.

The second part of the show will look at Rose, and her unravelling as an accomplice and murderer, before the final instalment focuses on the trial and the search for bodies beyond Cromwell Street.

Netflix have confirmed that the documentary has “exclusive access to previously unseen police video and unheard audio recordings” and gives an “insight into the pain and torment” the victims’ families “went through for decades”.

The trailer itself is harrowing as it showed a person open up about how Fred described murdering his daughter without “floods of tears”, and as a “black and white set of facts”.

A recording also hears a voice say: “I thought dad was a very sick man, but nobody could have known.” A voice that appears to be Rose also says: “You’ll never get a confession out of me for something I haven’t done.”

This is not the first time that a documentary has been made to look into the dark crimes of Fred and Rose. Fred And Rose West: Reopened – on ITV found possible evidence to suggest the body of 15-year-old schoolgirl Mary Bastholm could be buried in the cellar of the Clean Plate cafe in Gloucester.

A detective chief inspector said in 2021 that Fred was “always indicated” to be involved, as he was a regular at the café – then called the Pop-In – where Mary worked as a waitress. However, the police did not find human remains during that year.

Channel 5 also had the 2001 documentary Fred and Rose – The West Murders, which prompted complaints over the broadcasting of taped interviews with the killers.

The then regulator, Broadcasting Standards Commission – which later became Ofcom, said the series was “serious, unsensationalised”, and cleared the programme.

Fred & Rose West: A British Horror Story will be released on Netflix on May 14th.