Netflix true-crime docuseries tend to always cast doubt on the official version of events. In a way this is positive, because the official theory usually has very loud "speakers". On the other hand, it can be dangerous, because with the audience that these documentaries have, they can contaminate a case (this could be what happened with 'Making a murderer').
The Netflix documentary "The Alcàsser Murders" (El caso Alcasser) is peculiar because it takes the opposite stance: supporting the official story.
'The Alcàsser Murders' focuses on one of the darkest episodes in the 90s in Spain, a case that defined the decade in the country: the triple murder of Alcasser where three young girls where kidnapped, tortured and murdered. The Netflix documentary supports the official theory by harshly attacking the two more notorious critics of the official theory, depicting them as only interested in the fame and money, which is a risky accusation to make considering that one of them is actually one of the murdered girls...
But this documentary is not the unbiased portrayal of the facts that it pretends to be. Many things have been left out, important things that show a clear intention to manipulate the viewer.
The first thing is that in 2017, only two years before the documentary premiered in Netflix, a teeth was found in the location where the bodies had been found in 1992. This clearly shows that the unearthing of the bodies was, at least, problematic. In fact, after the documentary aired, a couple found more bones in the site.
But there are other issues that the documentary suspiciously leaves out or downplays:
- DNA from between 5 and 7 different people were found on the corpses, that didn't belong to the suspects (one was later condemned, another ran away and has never been captured) [El País]. Still now, this mistery has not been solved [El País].
- How could the police find a hospital document that allowed to track one of the accused, in the burial site of the victims in the country after 75 days, after all kinds of weather including windy and rainy days? This document, that had the name of the brother of one of the suspects, didn't fall from a pocket, as it had been torn in several pieces... Meaning that the suspect had allegedly torn it and thrown it away... exactly were he and his accomplice buried three murdered girls...
- How could such a suspect (who forgets a document with his brother's name on a burial site of a triple murder), escape the police, flee the country, and never be found? Why this almost-impossible escape is skipped in the documentary?
- Why the documentary doesn't mention the also unbelievable key element of the official version that the two murderers with the three kidnapped girls arrived at the location of the murders in an Opel Corsa when even the documentary explains that the police could only get to the place with 4WD cars?
- The documentary also fails to mention the similarities between the Alcasser murders and a previous triple murder in Macastre (a town 40 km from Alcasser), only three years before the Alcasser murders.
Although Juan Ignacio Blanco and Fernando García, the two critics that the documentary focuses on, had made some big mistakes and taken wrong decisions, the choice to make them the center of the documentary feels like a debatable strategy to defend the official version.
The Netflix documentary "The Alcàsser Murders" (El caso Alcasser) is peculiar because it takes the opposite stance: supporting the official story.
'The Alcàsser Murders' focuses on one of the darkest episodes in the 90s in Spain, a case that defined the decade in the country: the triple murder of Alcasser where three young girls where kidnapped, tortured and murdered. The Netflix documentary supports the official theory by harshly attacking the two more notorious critics of the official theory, depicting them as only interested in the fame and money, which is a risky accusation to make considering that one of them is actually one of the murdered girls...
But this documentary is not the unbiased portrayal of the facts that it pretends to be. Many things have been left out, important things that show a clear intention to manipulate the viewer.
The first thing is that in 2017, only two years before the documentary premiered in Netflix, a teeth was found in the location where the bodies had been found in 1992. This clearly shows that the unearthing of the bodies was, at least, problematic. In fact, after the documentary aired, a couple found more bones in the site.
But there are other issues that the documentary suspiciously leaves out or downplays:
- DNA from between 5 and 7 different people were found on the corpses, that didn't belong to the suspects (one was later condemned, another ran away and has never been captured) [El País]. Still now, this mistery has not been solved [El País].
- How could the police find a hospital document that allowed to track one of the accused, in the burial site of the victims in the country after 75 days, after all kinds of weather including windy and rainy days? This document, that had the name of the brother of one of the suspects, didn't fall from a pocket, as it had been torn in several pieces... Meaning that the suspect had allegedly torn it and thrown it away... exactly were he and his accomplice buried three murdered girls...
- How could such a suspect (who forgets a document with his brother's name on a burial site of a triple murder), escape the police, flee the country, and never be found? Why this almost-impossible escape is skipped in the documentary?
- Why the documentary doesn't mention the also unbelievable key element of the official version that the two murderers with the three kidnapped girls arrived at the location of the murders in an Opel Corsa when even the documentary explains that the police could only get to the place with 4WD cars?
- The documentary also fails to mention the similarities between the Alcasser murders and a previous triple murder in Macastre (a town 40 km from Alcasser), only three years before the Alcasser murders.
Although Juan Ignacio Blanco and Fernando García, the two critics that the documentary focuses on, had made some big mistakes and taken wrong decisions, the choice to make them the center of the documentary feels like a debatable strategy to defend the official version.
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