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The TikTok Killer is dropping on Netflix, and the title alone sounds like something you’d watch in one sitting. But hold up, this is not just some overhyped Netflix documentary with a flashy name. This is a real case, a recent one, and it’s more disturbing the more you read about it because this is not fiction, not loosely inspired, not exaggerated.

This is a woman, Esther Estepa, who vanished in 2023 after a trip where she crossed paths with a social media content creator. And from that point on, her entire digital life became the only breadcrumb trail anyone had.

So here is what’s going on. Esther was 42 years old when she went on this trip through Spain. She met up with this guy, José Jurado Montilla, who people online knew as “Dynamite”. You might have seen one of his videos pop up before. Those emotional travel clips with sunsets and voiceovers about life and love. That’s him. And it turns out, he was the last known person to be with her. Just like that, Esther disappears. And the only thing her friends and family had to go on were videos, texts, and posts; the digital traces we all leave behind without even realising how permanent they can be.

The docuseries is called The TikTok Killer, and it is coming to Netflix on March 6th. It is not some long, drawn-out ten-parter. It is a two-episode documentary that gets straight to it. Directed by Héctor Muniente, this thing pulls no punches.

And it is not just about police work or suspects. It is about Esther’s people, her family, and her friends, who started retracing her steps the only way they could: through her messages, her social feeds, every clip, every comment, and every last update she left behind. And lucky you, because you will get to watch it not like a crime show but like someone desperately scrolling through a loved one’s phone trying to make sense of what they missed.

This is being produced by iZen Documentaries, and if that name rings a bell, it is because they have been doing this for decades. They are one of the biggest documentary production groups in Spain and know exactly how to handle sensitive, real-life stories without turning them into spectacles. And The TikTok Killer is going to hit a mark even harder because it doesn’t have closure. And it is definitely not about a clean ending. It’s about what it means to live in a world where people disappear, and the only thing they leave behind is a digital echo.

If you’re into true crime that is recent and raw, this one is going to hit for sure. And it’s going to make you think about your own digital footprint in ways you did not expect. Because The TikTok Killer is not just about what happened to Esther. It is about the fact that her story still exists in bits and bytes, waiting to be seen.