True-Crime Docuseries, ‘Homicide: New York’, From the Creator of ‘Law & Order,’ Coming to Netflix
The docuseries revisits some of the city’s biggest cases through the eyes of the officers who solved them.
“New York is an ugly city, a dirty city,” novelist John Steinbeck once wrote. “But there is one thing about it –– once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.” In Homicide: New York, the new five-episode docuseries from executive producer Dick Wolf, detectives, officers, and other members of the New York Police Department reveal just how ugly the city can be, sharing their recollections of some of their grisliest cases.
From the 1997 stabbing murder of a man in Central Park to the 2001 Carnegie Deli massacre – in which five people were found shot in an apartment above the restaurant – Homicide: New York features interviews with the NYPD, as well as survivors, friends, and families of the victims. The series has all the twists, turns, and harrowing details one might expect from Wolf’s widely-known Law & Order franchise — except on Homicide: New York, every part of the story is real, from the intense grief experienced by those left in the wake of a violent crime, to the complicated process of bringing perpetrators to justice. As one law enforcement officer puts it in the series, “Every single case takes a little piece out of your soul.”
Homicide: New York is a production of Wolf Entertainment alongside Alfred Street Industries, with executive producers Dick Wolf, Tom Thayer, Jane Lipsitz, Dan Cutforth, Nan Strait, Dan Volpe, and Adam Kassen. The series premieres on Netflix on March 20, followed by Homicide: Los Angeles later in 2024.
