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Netflix Releases 'Manhunt: The Child Snatcher,' Reviving Robert Black Case

The two-part film features first-hand accounts from investigators alongside families recounting the nine-year UK manhunt.

Overview

  • Netflix added the two-part documentary on February 23, bringing the 2023 Channel 5 programme to a wider audience.
  • The series focuses on Scottish serial killer Robert Black, who abducted and murdered four girls in the 1980s while employed as a delivery driver.
  • Testimony explains how his long-haul routes enabled cross-border offences that hindered coordination across police forces for years.
  • Black was arrested in 1990 after a witness foiled an abduction in Stow, then convicted in 1994 of three murders and in 2011 of Jennifer Cardy’s 1981 killing.
  • He died in 2016 in Maghaberry Prison, with Devon and Cornwall Police later stating they were weeks from charging him over Genette Tate’s 1978 disappearance.