“Thrills guaranteed”: this Spanish true crime Netflix mini series will not leave you indifferent

Netflix continues to thrill us with its thrilling and frightening true crime series. There was A story of murder and friendship, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Storyor Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart.
Or even Missing: The Long Island Killer. Here is a new Spanish true crime Netflix mini series that will not leave you indifferent.

A Spanish true crime Netflix mini series that won’t leave you indifferent

Here is a Spanish true crime Netflix mini series, released in France on March 27, 2026, which will not leave you indifferent: The Predator of Seville. This documentary series centers on Manuel Blanco Vela, a tour guide known to international students as “Manu White”. For many years, he organized low-cost language stays in Spain for American students. He worked with the Discover Excursions company. Then young women began to make connections between different cases of abuse that had been committed against female students. Students who seemed unrelated to each other. The crimes then went unpunished for 15 years. It was the testimony of Gabrielle Vega which finally revealed the affair.

La mini série Netflix true crime The Predator of Seville is signed Alejandro Olvera. Season 1 contains 3 episodes. It mixes testimonies and unpublished archives. Chilling! And follows an incredible and very effective investigation led by Ana Pastor and the entire Newtral team (co-producer of the series) which made it possible to reconstruct the entire affair. So to solve the crimes of Manuel Blanco. And even to identify the involvement of Discover Excursions. The Netflix team highlighted elements that neither the justice system nor the journalists had. And also had access to unpublished documents. The series was posted online a few weeks after the conviction of Manuel Blanco Vela by the court.

A case that hit the headlines

It all began when, a young American student aged 19, Gabrielle Vega, went on a language trip to Seville, Spain, in order to improve her Spanish before entering university. She chose the travel agency for international students Discover Excursions. The travel agency, specializing in stays in Spain, Portugal and Morocco, has a good reputation. But, at the end of her stay, in a hotel room in Tangier, Morocco, Gabrielle Vega is sexually assaulted by tourist guide Manuel Blanco Vela. Gabrielle Vega speaks out, five years later, in 2018. She denounces the attack of which she was the victim in a post on Facebook. Following this, many other women testified, also victims of the same predator. After Gabrielle Vega appeared on the Today show broadcast on NBC in the United States, there were, in total, more than 50 testimonies from women.

Manuel Blanco’s modus operandi is revealed. He gains the trust of his victims then encourages them to drink alcohol before sexually assaulting them. He acted between approximately 2009 and 2018. Manuel Blanco is also implicated in the death of a 21-year-old American student, Lauren Bajorek. Justice took 15 years to act. The attacks were committed by a Spaniard, in Morocco and Portugal, and against women enrolled in an international Spanish program. A jurisdictional imbroglio which allowed Manuel Blanco to go under the radar of justice for many years. His trial opened in January 2025. The court sentenced him to 9 years in prison.