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Disappeared: Mexico’s Missing 43

Season 1
Mexico, 2014. 43 students were violently attacked, then vanished. Someone, somewhere knows the truth. This intriguing true crime documentary searches for answers amid corruption, cartels, and conspiracies. Families of the missing, crime officials, politicians and insiders all give their views on what happened and who was responsible. Can the real culprits ever be caught?
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  1. S1 E1 - The Disappearance
    December 6, 2023
    59min
    TV-14
    In September 2014, a group of students were violently attacked on their way to a protest in Mexico City. 43 young men were taken away by municipal police and never seen again. This fascinating true crime documentary hears how investigators initially blamed corrupt local police and a local drug cartel for the attacks, but in the months that followed this official investigation drew suspicion.
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  2. S1 E2 - The Aftermath
    December 13, 2023
    59min
    16+
    In the years following the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico, evidence emerges of pay-offs and an official cover-up. But who is behind the crime and how high up does it go? This remarkable true crime documentary reveals evidence of a much wider network of cartel-linked corruption. Will a new government and a fresh investigation finally unearth the fate of the missing students?
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Directors
Mark CasebowOliver Englehart
Studio
BBC
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