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- Abducted in Plain Sight (2017) The thought of your child being taken from you is every parent's worst nightmare, which makes the lack of intervention in this twisted story all the more upsetting.
- Amanda Knox (2016) The saga of Amanda Knox has been one of the most public cases of the modern age. This 2016 documentary chronicles her journey from being convicted for the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher to her experience of being smeared by the press and her eventual acquittal.
- American Murder: The Family Next Door (2020) This unusual documentary examines the heart-wrenching true story of what happened to Shanann Watts and her children when they disappeared from their Colorado home in 2018.
- American Nightmare (2024) On March 23, 2015, Aaron Quinn dialed 911 to report a bizarre crime: He and his girlfriend, Denise Huskins, were ambushed in their home by an intruder who blindfolded them with blacked-out swim goggles, drugged them with NyQuil, and abducted Denise in the trunk of his white Mustang.
Stranger than fiction — and way more unsettling. These documentary films and series investigate the unbelievable stories of true crimes.
Oct 24, 2024 · There have been 9 suspects. Cameron Frew. Published: Oct 24, 2024, 07:15. FX/Warner Bros/Netflix. Netflix’s This is the Zodiac Killer re-examines the infamous unsolved case, raising Arthur Leigh ...
- 'The Confession Tapes' The Confession Tapes looks at 10 cases in which those accused of a serious crime claim that their confessions have been coerced or falsified.
- 'The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson' This documentary explores the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of transgender icon and LGBTQ activist Marsha P. Johnson.
- 'Audrie & Daisy' Equal parts heartbreaking and infuriating, Audrie & Daisy tells the story of two teenagers — Daisy Coleman and Audrie Pott — who were sexually assaulted and the vicious backlash that followed their stories going public.
- 'The Keepers' The seven-episode Emmy-nominated documentary series explores the unsolved murder of a nun, Sister Cathy Cesnik, who taught at Baltimore's Archbishop Keough High School.
- Making A Murderer
- Amanda Knox
- Evil Genius
- The Disappearance of Madeleine Mccann
- I Am A Killer
- The Innocent Man
- Wormwood
- The Phantom
- The Ted Bundy Tapes
- The Keepers
Making a Murdereris an American true crime documentary that had taken the Internet by storm upon its release. Shot over 15 years, it is the real story of Wisconsin-based Steven Avery, who was wrongly accused of the sexual assault and attempted murder of Penny Beerntsen and had to serve 18 years in prison since his arrest in 1985. Two years after hi...
This Netflix-distributed documentary dives into the complex case of Meredith Kircher’s homicide in 2007 while focusing on Amanda Knox, an American exchange student who was roommates with the victim and, therefore, a serious suspect. At only 20 years of age, she was convicted and spent four years in an Italian prison for a murder she did not commit....
Evil Genius is a 2018-released Netflix Original four-part series that documents the murder of Brian Wells in 2003. This case is also popularly referred to as the “collar bomb” or “pizza bomber” case. Wells was killed during a bank robbery following the detonation of an explosive collar forcibly tied to his neck. Yet, producer and narrator Trey Borz...
The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann is an 8-part docu-series that premiered on Netflix in 2019 and documents the highly publicized disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann when she was on vacation with her family in a resort in Portugal in 2007. To date, there is no information about her whereabouts. In this documentary, we are given a de...
We are already familiar with tons of true crime shows that focus on the cases from the investigator and victim or family point of view. But Netflix’s ‘I Am a Killer’ allows viewers to experience crimes as a first-hand account from the perpetrators themselves. Season 1 of this documentary, which debuted in 2018, focuses on ten death row inmates over...
‘The Innocent Man,’ an American true-crime documentary television series, first aired on Netflix on December 14, 2018. It is an adaptation of John Grisham’s non-fiction book, ‘The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town,’ published in 2006. The first season comprises six episodes and chronicles the strange events surrounding two homicide...
Wormwood, which premiered on Netflix on December 15, 2018, is a 6-episode docu-series that follows the life of the American biological warfare scientist and CIA official Frank Olson, who mysteriously died in 1953. He was suspected of having participated in a government biological warfare program (Project MKUltra) without his knowledge. The story is...
Directed by Patrick Forbes, ‘The Phantom’ explores the story of one of the darkest chapters in the American justice system — the perplexing case of Carlos DeLuna. After all, although he was convicted and later executed by the State of Texas for the 1983 murder of a 24-year-old gas station employee, he maintained his innocence until his dying breath...
Another docu-series that created quite a stir in social media is the Netflix Original, ‘Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes,’ which premiered on January 24, 2018. This four-part series brings to the small screen for the first time over 100 hours of interviews and archival footage of the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy. It also documen...
Yet another American docu-series that received wide critical acclaim and raised questions about sexual abuse within the church is the 7-episode show, ‘The Keepers’, which was released on Netflix on May 19, 2017. It is about the unsolved murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik, a nun who taught English and drama at Archbishop Keough High School, Baltimore. He...
Aug 14, 2024 · While some villains are (thankfully) works of fiction, Netflix has become a master at digging up the ones that are stranger than fiction, and offering a harrowing look into real-life criminals whose stories are guaranteed to keep you up at night.
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4 days ago · Now, a family who knew the prime suspect Arthur Leigh Allen have come forward for the first time in the Netflix documentary This Is the Zodiac Speaking to reveal shocking new information in the ...
