Disturbing new true crime series hailed as ‘one of the best documentaries ever’ by ‘expert’-Pierra Willix-Entertainment – Metro

A new ‘jaw-dropping’ true crime documentary series has left viewers labelling it one of the best they’ve ever seen.

The Sky programme The Body Next Door delves into one of the most bizarre and shocking true crime stories of the past decade.

The three-part series tells of an ‘astonishing and macabre discovery’ made in Beddau, a sleepy former mining village in the heart of the Welsh Valleys, in 2015.

What began as a seemingly harmless prank involving a medical skeleton took a horrifying turn when it was revealed that the ‘skeleton’ was, in fact, a real human body which was found in the secure garden of a quiet residential block.

What emerged was a gripping murder mystery intertwined with a dramatic family saga, making headline news and sending shockwaves from the heart of the Welsh Valleys to the suburbs of New Zealand.

It also ‘meticulously recounts this extraordinary story, offering viewers unbelievable twists and turns, and unravelling a case that sends shockwaves around the world’.

A new true crime series as been hailed by viewers as ‘one of the best they’ve ever seen’ (Picture: Sky)

‘Wow, this is one crazy documentary, can’t believe it actually happened, you have to watch it to believe it! That woman was pure evil!’ Tee posted on X.

‘Wow!!! just watched The Body Next Door… if this true story was a film you’d say no way, so farfetched & could never happen,’ Willie shared.

‘I’ve just finished watching all three episodes of #TheBodyNextDoor……I was riveted! What an absolutely extraordinary story.  It just shows you really don’t know who people are and if you have a monster living in your midst. Highly recommended viewing,’ Karen added.

The Body Next Door tells the story of what happened after a skeleton was found in Leigh Ann Sabine’s garden in Wales (Picture: PA)

Others called it ‘bonkers’, ‘jaw dropping’ and an ‘must watch’.

Another called it the ‘most compelling true crime series’ they’d seen in awhile.

Writing for the i, critic Emily Watkins said the series was one of the best true crime documentaries she had ‘ever seen’.

Her husband John Sabine had last been seen in 1997 (Picture: PA)

Viewers called the three-part series ‘compelling’ (Picture: X)

Another said they watched it all in one sitting (Picture: X)

This viewer issued a spine-tingling warning (Picture: X)

Many viewers said they were captivated by the twists and turns, including discovering that the prime suspect in the case, a woman called Leigh Ann Sabine, had in fact died just a month before the body was discovered.

It was later discovered that the body was that of her husband John Sabine, who hadn’t been 18 years.

Speaking in the documentary, one of the couple’s five children (who they’d abandoned years earlier) shockingly shares: ‘I have no doubt my mother was capable of murder.’

The Body Next Door is streaming on Now.

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