These Are The Shows That Every True Crime Fan Needs To Watch At Least Once
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Here's the gist: true crime content is having a moment. From fascinating deep-dive podcasts to chilling documentaries, the genre continued to soar in popularity this past year, and the obsession doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon.
Nearly half of Americans enjoy the genre, with one in three individuals saying they consume true-crime content at least once per week, according to a 2022 YouGov poll. It makes sense: I mean, how else are people to make sense of these stranger-than-fiction realities than through dramatized retellings and investigative journalism?
True crime shows invite viewers into the lives of serial killers, scammers, cult leaders, and, in some cases, their victims. Take, for example, Netflix’s Escaping Twin Flames, which explores the dark side of an online community that preys on people looking for love. There’s also Hulu’s Stolen Youth, a three-part docuseries that follows the disturbing story of cult leader Larry Ray and the students he victimized at Sarah Lawrence College.
If you're still craving more true crime, there are loads of other shows sure to hold you over until the next big hit inevitably premieres. You may or may not have watched MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, which delves into the unsolved mystery of the missing Malaysian Airlines plane that jetted off to Beijing in 2014 and never returned. Or, you might have tuned into The Act or The Dropout, two award-winning dramatizations of stories that made headlines.
Whether you’re looking for stories that tap into kidnappings and unbelievable scams, or dramatizations of disturbing, real-life crimes, there’s a little bit of everything on this list that’s sure to keep you glued to your screen. So, without further ado, here are the 53 best true crime shows to watch in 2024.
Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1
During the fall season of 2010, Larry Ray moved into his daughter’s dorm at Sarah Lawrence College after returning from prison. Almost immediately, seven students fell under his influence, and for several years, they endured twisted acts of manipulation and abuse. This Hulu docuseries follows the stories of the victims and explores Ray’s history, the cult he created at Sarah Lawrence, and the aftermath of its recent demise.
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Monique Olivier: Accessory to Evil
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1
Monique Olivier: Accessory to Evil focuses on the ex-wife of Michel Fourniret, France’s most infamous serial killer. The first episode examines the cases of Isabelle Laville, Céline Saison, and Mananya Thumpong. Through archival news footage, reenactments, and interviews with law enforcement and the victims’ families, this five-part docu-series explores Olivier’s history and how she actively assisted Fourniret in kidnapping and murdering young women and girls.
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Escaping Twin Flames
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1
This three-part Netflix docuseries delves into the world of Twin Flames Universe, an active online community and alleged spiritual cult run by Jeff and Shaleia Ayan, a couple promising to help paying members find their soulmate. Former participants share disturbing allegations of indoctrination, coercion, and abuse, including ex-members recounting how they were encouraged to stalk their love match and pressured to change their gender identity.
(Want to learn even more? Based on a Vanity Fair exposé by investigative reporter Alice Hines, Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Twin Flames Universe is another true-crime docuseries about the controversial online group that’s worth watching on Amazon.)
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Telemarketers
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
This dark, yet comedic three-part docuseries follows two office buddies-turned-whistleblowers aiming to take down the sketchy telemarketing industry from the inside. The show details how these companies evade regulation and recounts these two outcasts' 20-year mission to expose the truth behind where the money for these "charities" they're fundraising for actually go. Fun fact: The FTC actually shut down Civic Development Group, the company these unlikely protagonists worked for, in 2010 for false claims and misleading donor.
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Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street recounts the rise and fall of disgraced financier Bernie Madoff. In 2008, Madoff was arrested after stealing roughly $65 billion from thousands of clients—one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in Wall Street history. The limited docuseries explores how government agencies, namely the Securities and Exchange Commission, and banks could've bypassed Madoff's corrupt tactics for so long. It's not until the 2008 market crash that his scheme is finally exposed and his victims are able to get justice.
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Missing: Dead or Alive?
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1
"1,500 people go missing in the U.S. every single day," says one of the officers who is the subject of Netflix's Missing: Dead or Alive? This docuseries follows officers from a South Carolina sheriff's department as they search for people who have disappeared under concerning circumstances. There are currently four episodes available to stream, each exploring a different missing persons case. There's the case of David Taylor, who goes missing after winning the lottery, and Lorraine Garcia, whose abusive son may have something to do with her disappearance.
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Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
Speaking of South Carolina, Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal recounts the series of gruesome crimes that followed one of the state's most prominent families. It starts with the death of 19-year-old Mallory Beach in a drunken boating accident. Then, a double homocide—that of Paul Murdaugh, who was allegedly driving the boat, and his mother Maggie—leads to the unraveling of a century of corruption and cover-ups. The case seemingly came to a close on March 3, 2023 when Alex Murdaugh—the father of Paul, husband of Maggie, and a corrupt lawyer—was sentenced to life in prison for their murder. Nevertheless, the events leading up to his conviction will have you glued to the screen.
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MH370: The Plane That Disappeared
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
Anyone who has been on earth long enough knows that planes go up, sometimes crash—although rarely—but this limited docuseries bares the question: Is it possible for airplanes to simply vanish into thin air? In 2014, Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 headed for Beijing did just that—vanish—along with 239 passengers. Nine years later, the plane has still not been found and no one knows what happened. Was the plane hijacked and did the pilot have something to do with it? In this docuseries, family members, journalists, scientists, and investigators delve into one of the greatest modern-day mysteries.
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The Watcher
Genre: Dramatization
Seasons: 1
Created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, The Watcher is the chilling Hollywood retelling of the real-life haunting of 657 Boulevard. After purchasing their dream home, a New Jersey family starts to receive threatening letters from a stalker who calls themself “The Watcher,” who apparently has been watching the home for years and somehow knows intimate details about the couple and their three kids—this was in 2014.
In 2019, the Broadduses sold the home to a young family in town who have so far not reported any suspicious activity. A 2018 New York Magazine article documenting the account inspired the show, and to this day the mystery of the stalker’s identity is still unsolved, although the case remains active.
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Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Genre: Dramatization
Seasons: 1
Another addition to the Ryan Murphy cinematic universe, Dahmer tells the story of convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who across more than a decade, murdered 17—mostly Black and gay—teen boys and young men. The show aims to address the systemic failures that allowed Dahmer to remain at large for so many years, and tell the story from the point of view of Dahmer’s victims and his neighbor, Glenda Cleveland, who tried to stop him.
Despite the show’s success on the streaming platform, Dahmer has received a lot of backlash for the dramatization of Dahmer’s story and for Netflix failing to contact the families of victims.
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Killer Sally
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
In this Netflix mini-docuseries, family, friends and Sally McNeil herself chart the events that led up to the former bodybuilder murdering her bodybuilder husband, Ray McNeil. Here’s the gist: Sally and Ray had a rocky marriage in which Ray often abused Sally and their children. Sally had enough of it, and to safeguard herself and her kids, shot Ray one Valentine’s Day.
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I Am A Stalker
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1
From the producers of I Am A Killer, comes a new, spine-chilling series. Roughly 3.4 million people were victims of stalking in 2019, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. In their own words, the most notorious convicted stalkers recount the stories behind their crimes in captivating, in-depth interviews.
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Welcome to Chippendales
Genre: Dramatization
Seasons: 1
Inspired by true events, Welcome to Chippendales tells the story of Indian-American entrepreneur, Somen “Steve” Banerjee, who founded the first-of-its-kind world-renowned male-stripping empire, Chippendales. Lest to say, things get dark when Banerjee senses competition when similar nightclubs start to pop up, and his business partner tries to take credit for his creation.
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Captive Audience: A Real American Horror Story
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
Captive Audience follows the life of Steven Stayner and his family over the course of a 50-year journey to uncover the tales of two brothers—one villain, one hero. Nearly a decade after mysteriously vanishing at age 7, Steven’s dramatic return home sparks “stranger danger” warnings, legal reforms, and a prime-time miniseries watched by 70 million Americans. But that’s just one tragic chapter of the family’s life. This limited series shows how sometimes reality is stranger than fiction.
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Worst Roommate Ever
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1
This five-part docuseries highlights four harrowing tales of legit nightmare roommate situations. There's the story of Dorothea Puente, a convicted serial killer who murdered at least nine of the elderly and mentally-disabled boarders who stayed at the boarding home she ran Sacramento, California. Plus, former roommates of "serial squatter" Jamison Bachman describe, in great detail, how he terrorized them.
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Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
In the 1980s, one of the most sinister serial killers in American history terrorized Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. Dubbed a “killer clown” by an eyewitness, the Night Stalker, a.k.a. Richard Ramirez, stalked, raped, and murdered more than 15 people—men, women, and children—across California over the course of seventeen months. This limited docuseries tells the story of how he was hunted down and finally brought to justice.
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Fear City: New York vs. The Mafia
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
In the 1970s and ‘80s, five Mafia families—the Gambinos, Colombos, Bonannos, Luccheses, and Genoveses—ruled New York City, that is until a group of federal agents did the unthinkable: took them down. This BAFTA-winning limited docuseries, told from the point of view of the FBI, tells the tale of how these agents finally brought down the mob. In it, viewers can also spot appearances of controversial New York City figures Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani.
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The Vow
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 2
This HBO docuseries follows the federal trial against NXIVM founder, Keith Raniere. In it, viewers hear from members of the controversial “self-improvement” organization and sex cult that made headlines after being charged for sex trafficking, racketeering, and conspiracy. Safe to say, it’s chilling stuff.
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Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
Interested in more cult content? Through interviews with former members of the infamous UFO cult and loved ones as well as never-before-seen footage, Heaven’s Gate tells the story of how what began as the disappearance of 20 highly educated people from a small town in Oregon ended with the largest suicide in U.S. history in 1997.
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The Staircase
Genre: Dramatization
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
Starring Toni Collette and Colin Firth, The Staircase chronicles the mysterious death of Kathleen Peterson. In 2001, she was found dead at the bottom of the staircase in her mansion. Her husband, novelist Michael Peterson, told police that his wife had slipped on the stairs after drinking wine and taking Valium. But the amount of blood on the stairs made law enforcement suspect foul play. Michael became the center of the investigation and trial, though he maintained his innocence throughout the process.
Before the dramatized Max show premiered in 2022, a 2004 Netflix documentary, also titled The Staircase, first took on the Petersons' case—and all its dark twists and turns.
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Candy
Genre: Dramatization
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
Jessica Biel takes on the titular role of Candy Montgomery, a 1980 housewife and mother in Texas. She seemed to have the perfect life: loving husband, great kids, tons of friends. But the Hulu drama shows that something darker was lurking beneath that flawless facade. On Friday the 13th, Candy murdered her friend Betty Gore with an axe—some time after having an affair with Betty's husband, Allan Gore. Admittedly "based on true events," the limited series takes certain creative liberties with its telling of the true crime case, especially during the finale episode.
Interestingly, this isn't the only TV show to chronicle this violent killing that shook a small town to its core. Elizabeth Olsen also plays Candy in Max's Love & Death.
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The Act
Genre: Dramatization
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
Based on a 2016 BuzzFeed article, The Act is the dramatized retelling of a stranger-than-fiction 2015 crime. To outsiders, Dee Dee Blanchard seemed like a model parent: tirelessly caring for her severely sick daughter, Gypsy Rose. Turns out, Dee Dee was forcing her daughter to pass off as younger and disabled, subjecting her to unnecessary medical treatments, to gain the sympathy and attention of others. After Gypsy meets her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, online and discovers that she’s not sick at all, her quest to escape the toxic relationship with her mother results in murder.
Patricia Arquette, who plays Dee Dee, scored an Emmy and Golden Globe for her performance in the limited series.
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The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1
The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann details the investigation behind the most high-profile child abduction case in recent history. While on vacation with her family in 2007, three-year-old Madeleine vanished from a seaside resort in Portugal. What ensued was a media frenzy and shoddy investigation—from corruption in the investigation bureau to prosecutors mistakenly suspecting the parents, themselves, having played a part in the crime.
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I Am A Killer
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 4
Convicted murderers on Death Row recount their crimes and reflect on how their actions gravely affected the lives of others and their own in this long-running Netflix docuseries. Hear from Miguel Angel Martinez—the youngest person ever sentenced to death in Texas after a triple murder—and "the Bogeyman," aka Gary Black, who in 1999 was convicted of first-degree murder after fatally stabbing Jason Johnson, a Black man, in a racially-charged attack, per The Sun.
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Narcos
Genre: Dramatization
Seasons: 3
This biographic crime series chronicles the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, and other infamous drug kingpins of the late ‘80s. In addition to portraying some quite gruesome crimes, the show documents government and civilian efforts to control one of the world’s most valuable commodities: cocaine. If you need a reason to tune in, Pedro Pascal plays crime fighting DEA agent Javier Peña. Enough said.
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The Thing About Pam
Genre: Dramatization
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
Another A-lister takes on the starring role of friend murderer in The Thing About Pam. Renée Zellweger transformed herself into Pam Hupp, a Missouri woman charged with murdering her friend Elizabeth "Betsy" Faria in 2011 for life insurance money. Betsy had cancer, and after driving her home from chemotherapy, Pam was the last person to see Betsy alive before she was stabbed to death in her home.
At first, fingers pointed to Betsy's husband, Russel Faria, who was falsely accused of the crime. But eventually documents revealed that Pam had convinced Betsy to change her life insurance policy to make Pam the beneficiary before her murder, NBC News reported. The case was so complex that Pam was only charged for Betsy's murder a decade after it happened—and after she killed another man.
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Inventing Anna
Genre: Dramatization
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
Take this true crime show with a grain of salt. After all, Inventing Anna advertises itself as a "completely true" story "except for all of the parts that are totally made up." Starring Ozark's Julia Garner as infamous fraudster Anna Delvey, who convinced New York’s elite she was a German heiress, swindling them out of thousands in the process. The Netflix original limited series shows how Anna cashed in on her scam...until it all came crashing down.
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The Dropout
Genre: Dramatization
Seasons: 1
Consider 2022 the unofficial year of scammer content. Hulu also hopped on the trend with The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried as medical fraudster Elizabeth Holmes. The founder and former CEO of Theranos, a health technology company that claimed to be able to run over 200 medical tests on a single drop of blood using a machine called the Edison device, ABC News reported. Spoiler alert: It didn't. On May 30, 2023, Holmes was sentenced to 11 years in prison for her crimes, including wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, AP News reported.
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Landscapers
Genre: Dramatization
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
Across the pond, a seemingly normal British couple became the focus of an investigation when two dead bodies were discovered in the back garden of their house in 1998. Starring Olivia Colman and David Thewlis as Susan and Christopher Edwards, who murdered and buried Susan's parents William and Patricia Wycherly. Over four episodes, the HBO limited series chronicles how the couple's fairytale romance unravels after keeping their crime a secret for more than 10 years.
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The Serpent
Genre: Dramatization
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
The true story behind Netflix's biographical drama, The Serpent, is a strange one. The string of murders began when Charles Sobhraj, nicknamed the "Bikini Killer" and "The Serpent," and his lover Marie Andrée Leclerc posed as gem dealers and murdered young tourists in Southeast Asia during the 1970s. Mind you, Sobhraj, also a drug dealer and robber, had already been arrested in India, but he scammed his way out by faking a medical injury in 1977. (Today, he's serving a life sentence in prison in Nepal.)
Rather than focusing on his killing spree, The Serpent centers on Herman Knippenberg, the man who helped track Sobhraj down.
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Unsolved Mysteries
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 3
A reboot of the classic spine-tingling show, Netflix's Unsolved Mysteries presents audiences with a new chilling tale every episode and encourages viewers to help solve each cold case, from sudden disappearances to unexplainable murders. The series has sparked a whole new generation of online sleuths, sharing evidence and comparing theories—all in the hopes of solving these unsolvable mysteries.
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The Trials of Gabriel Fernández
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
As the details of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernández's death came to light, discovery after discovery revealed his mother, Pearl Fernández, and her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, tortured him. The couple was found guilty for his death and are both in prison—with Aguirre on death row.
In this Netflix docuseries, the creators reveal the shortcomings of a system that allow reports of children who've been repeatedly abused to fall through the cracks. Gabriel's teacher, throughout the series, details how she reported concerning descriptions of his home life that Gabriel shared with her—which were never appropriately documented or investigated.
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Under Suspicion: Uncovering the Wesphael Case
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1
This docuseries is a rare one told from the perspective of the accused. Bernard Wesphael, a Belgian politician, was accused of murdering his wife, Veronique Pirotton. In the doc, he's given a chance to speak out and describe how he'd woken up in 2013 to see his wife had been killed.
Though he was the suspected killer at first, he was acquitted in 2016. Throughout the show, Wesphael and Pirotton's sister and cousin describe the couple's marital issues. Wesphael also describes the affair his wife was having before her death, which led detectives to believe it was him all along.
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Don't F**k With Cats
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
By now, you might be familiar with where Luka Magnotta ends up (spoiler for those who don't know: it's prison). But before that, he'd amassed a strange internet following after posting videos of himself killing kittens online. Then, he murdered Lun Jun, a 33-year-old student from China, and mailed Jun's body parts to Canada's liberal and conservative headquarters and two elementary schools.
The docuseries follows accounts from the video viewers who eventually helped track down and convict Magnotta.
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Love Fraud
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
Directed by Academy-Award winning documentarians, Showtime's Love Fraud sheds light on the crimes of Richard Scott Smith. Smith, a love-bombing con man, would develop romantic relationships with women and just as things were getting serious, he'd ditch them. But that wasn't all: Before seemingly vanishing into thin air, he'd drain their bank accounts and leave them with hefty amounts of debt as he assumed a new identity and moved on to the next woman.
When law enforcement still hadn't found Smith, a group of women he'd scammed got together, hired a bounty hunter, and took matters into their own hands—all of which is chronicled in the docuseries.
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I'll Be Gone In The Dark
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1
I'll Be Gone In The Dark is based on the book by the same name written by the late true crime author Michelle McNamara about the Golden State Killer. Produced by McNamara's husband, comedian Patton Oswald, the six-part series reveals new details about the case for which former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo was convicted.
It also takes time to honor McNamara's dedication to uncovering the truth about the killer, having him convicted for the score of crimes he committed, including 50 rapes, and finally getting justice for his victims.
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McMillion$
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1
This HBO docuseries—perfect for a grown-up family movie night—tackles one of the biggest, strangest, and most obvious scams in America: the McDonald’s McMillion$ scratch-off game. Turns out, there were almost no winners in the 20 or so years McDonald’s ran the promotion. Rookie FBI agent Doug Matthews is assigned to the case, and what he uncovers is the perfect crime: a security guard stealing the winning tickets and selling them.
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Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1
Unlike the Zac Efron series, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, which dramatizes the events of the Ted Bundy reign of terror and the subsequent trial, Falling for a Killer goes deep on the cultural and psychoanalysis of Ted Bundy. Here, he’s not portrayed as the good-looking eccentric antihero, but a misogynist and abuser with a longstanding hatred for women. Director Trish Wood interviews feminist scholars, plus the women in Bundy’s life, including his longtime girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer.
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Tiger King
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 2
Tiger King was the breakout hit of spring 2020. It examines the gun-toting, polygamist zookeeper and roadshow entertainer Joe Exotic and whether or not he actually planned to kill his arch-nemesis, the conservationist Carole Baskin. With a colorful cast of characters like Carole herself, Joe’s husbands, and Doc Antle, who may or may not have three wives, according to one Joe Exotic employee, Tiger King is the escapist true crime we still need right now.
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Unbelievable
Genre: Dramatization
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
Just like The Act was based in part on a BuzzFeed News article, the Netflix series Unbelievable is based on a ProPublica and Marshall Project investigation. Booksmart actress Kaitlyn Dever plays Marie Adler, who reported being raped to the police but, when authorities didn't believe her, retracted the claim. Two detectives—played by Toni Collette and Merritt Wever—help uncover what actually happened in the true crime drama.
If that's not riveting enough to convince you to binge, Unbelievable received four Golden Globe nominations. Kaitlyn and Merritt were both nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television and Toni for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. Unbelievable was also nominated for Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.
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Truth Be Told
Genre: Drama
Seasons: 3
Apple TV+ brings true crime podcasts to the small screen with Truth Be Told. (Think Serial for the eyes and the ears.) Octavia Spencer plays a journalist, Poppy Parnell, who hosts a popular true crime podcast working to exonerate an innocent convict named Warren Cave (Aaron Paul). Lizzy Caplan also stars in the series, as adult twin daughters of the murder victim (a dual role that's apparently pretty trippy).
Unlike other shows on this list, the TV series is totally a work of fiction. The show's creator Nichelle Tramble Spellman based it on the novel Are You Sleeping by Kathleen Barber, which was heavily inspired by Sarah Koenig's podcast Serial, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It may be fiction, but it's no less intriguing a few episodes in. Octavia's character reinvestigates the case to redeem herself and exonerate the innocent.
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When They See Us
Genre: Dramatization
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
Nominated for 16 Emmys, Ava DuVernay's four-part Netflix series When They See Us follows the injustices surrounding the Central Park Five, a group of five teenagers who were wrongly accused—and convicted—of raping a woman in New York's Central Park. The show follows the five boys from interrogation—in which they were coerced into confessing to the crime they did not commit—to their struggles behind bars.
The story is one of the most notable in recent U.S. history, making the show an instant must-watch. Need yet another reason to press play? Rising star Jharrel Jerome won an Emmy for his performance as Korey Wise, one of the exonerated five.
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Mindhunter
Genre: Dramatization
Seasons: 2
Mindhunter became a true-crime TV obsession when season one—based on a true crime book of the same name—debuted way back in 2017. In the second season, fans can watch as Holden Ford and Bill Tench–characters both based on real FBI agents—get under the skin and into the minds of the country's most notorious serial killers (which, yes, really did happen).
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The Keepers
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1
The people closest to murdered Sister Cathy lead the hunt to uncover more about the 50-year-old homicide case in The Keepers. The Netflix series throws viewers right into the middle of their search for answers. The only problem? The show's only seven episodes long, making for a one-day binge. (At least you've got a ton of other options as soon as you're done...)
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Making A Murderer
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 2
If you've always wanted to get in the minds of killers (and have already binged all of Mindhunter), then Making A Murderer was pretty much made for you. The 2015 series captivated Netflix subscribers worldwide, telling Steven Avery's story in two enthralling seasons.
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The Jinx: The Life And Deaths Of Robert Durst
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1
Art often imitates life, but sometimes, life imitates art after it's already imitated life. Confused? Don't be. Here's the sitch: In 2010, director Andrew Jarecki made the crime drama film All Good Things, based on the true story of Robert Durst, who is accused of killing three people but had yet to be convicted of any charges. While doing research for All Good Things, Jarecki was able to get so close with Durst that he later directed a six-part docuseries for HBO, featuring an unprecedented interview with Durst himself.
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Lorena
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
Lorena Bobbitt flooded the news circuit in 1993 when she cut off her abusive husband's penis while he was asleep. What came after was a slew of jokes at her expense by the male-dominated media. Now, the Amazon Prime four-part docuseries, produced by Jordan Peele, allows Lorena to share her side of what happened and how the coverage impacted her life.
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The Case Against Adnan Syed
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
You've probably heard of a little true-crime podcast called Serial that pretty much kickstarted a whole slew of podcasts delving into cold cases. Five years after season one of Serial ended, HBO made a documentary catching up with Adnan Syed's case, including new interviews with both those who believe him and those who don't.
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Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1; Limited Series
Shortly before the Zac Efron-led Ted Bundy biopic, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, director Joe Berlinger released The Ted Bundy Tapes. Through old recordings and new interviews, the four-episode docuseries lets the notorious serial killer and those closest to the infamous case speak for themselves.
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The Confession Tapes
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 2
Speaking of unjust interrogations, Netflix series The Confession Tapes highlights the cases in which psychological interrogations were used against suspects to make up for a lack of evidence. It's often the most intense part of the investigation, and this docuseries proves that it can be the most unfair part, too.
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The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Genre: Dramatization
Seasons: 1
Ryan Murphy's hit anthology TV series started by exploring the infamous trial of football player O.J. Simpson, charged with the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, in 1994. From the acting to the direction, the show won multiple Emmys.
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Wild Wild Country
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1
Cult stories are seriously intriguing, which is why they usually get a lot of media attention. But the cult led by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh that built a "utopian city" in the Oregon desert was largely forgotten in the grand scheme of American history—until 2018. That's when the Netflix docuseries, Wild Wild Country, premiered, diving deep into the conflict between the cult and Oregonians that eventually resulted in the first bio-terror attack in the United States and a massive case of illegal wiretapping.
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Captive
Genre: Docuseries
Seasons: 1
There are few docs that let the victims tell their story, because it's often too painful for them to relive one of the most terrifying moments of their life. In Captive's eight episodes, however, the docuseries goes deep into multiple kidnapping cases and reconstructs some of the "most complex, high-stakes hostage negotiations" in history.
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