Wondery has entered a distribution deal offering Wondery+ subscribers exclusive new true crime limited series, (In)Justice: Killer Privilege.
Produced by Message Heard in association with The Standard (formerly the Evening Standard), the podcast is hosted by journalist Katie Strick, who has reported on the case over the last decade.
In 2014, 23-year-old university graduate Alex Morgan was working in commercial property in London.
Just after Christmas, he returned to Zurich where he had lived as a teenager, to meet friends, including Bennet von Vertes, the ultra-rich son of a gallery owner. They partied hard into the early hours before Alex returned to his friend’s villa.
At approximately 7am, von Vertes called the police to report that his friend was dead. The list of Alex’s injuries was extensive; he had been thrown against the coffee table, stabbed with a shard of glass, and impaled with a meter-long candlestick.
Alex died from asphyxiating on his own blood. Nearly all the bones in his head were broken, and teeth were lodged in his throat. Bennet had sustained only a small cut to his hand.
(In)Justice: Killer Privilege follows the story of grieving mother Katja Faber as she fights to achieve justice for Alex, her son.
The case shocked the world at the time, but now extraordinary details have emerged, including the killer’s history of violence.
Fresh allegations against him since his release from jail have resulted in a cat-and-mouse game with the authorities that persists to this day. To understand the case, the podcast explores the psychology of children of the super-rich, traumatic grief, and the influence of power and wealth on the justice system today.
(In)Justice – Killer Privilege launches on Wondery+ on 5 March, with all episodes available to binge ad-free at launch. It will then be available through The Standard’s platforms to all readers from later in the year.
