Ahead of the premiere of Oxygen’s ‘The Killer Among Us,’ host Alan Cumming exclusively spoke to Us Weekly about the story that introduced him to true crime
“We still don’t have as many true crime shows at all, ratio wise,” Cumming said. Harlan Coben is known for keeping readers on their toes with his killer mystery novels — but how much inspiration does the author take from true crime cases?
“I will see a case, I’ll look at the headline and that’ll maybe spark something. But I never want to dig into it,” Coben exclusively told Us He said that when he was “a little boy” in Scotland, there was a story about a woman who “was having an affair, she went missing, her body was never discovered. ” “They think it was kind of those roadworks being, you know, a new part of the roads we made.
I think she was buried under the concrete, and it went years and years and years and years, until they finally found out who did it,” he shared, adding that the story was recounted on a BBC Scotland special.
“I always, as a little boy, was fascinated by that sort , because it was kind of rare that it would be something so sort of dramatic and glamorous happening, and it happened near where I lived,” Cumming said. While he said he was “fascinated” with the story, he reiterated that true crime is “not so much part of our culture” in Scotland.
Despite not growing up an avid true crime fan, Cumming has embraced the genre as the host and producer of Oxygen’sThroughout the first season, Cumming will share stories of devious and deadly deception in which the victims were killed by people within their own social circles. News Licensing / MEGA The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures is bringing a new true crime series called The Lady to ITV, which will tell the story of Jane Andrews — convicted killer and former dresser to the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson.
The four-part drama series will offer a “partially fictionalized” account of Andrews’ “I like this one because of the idea that we all know that somebody’s being murdered, but the thing is, we are seeing … the person in the course of the story being told because we know at the start that the killer is among us,” he said of the project.
“So I just love that extra twist. It makes you pay more attention, and it makes you much more, sort of, analytical, I think. It’s also much more shocking because of that. ”'Off Campus' Creator Reveals Isn't Returning in Season 2
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