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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.
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Jul 3, 2024 · Here are the 20 best true crime documentaries on Netflix to stream. From theft to fraud to murder, these stories will leave you baffled yet intrigued.
- Terrell Smith
Oct 2, 2020 · If you love learning about unsolved murders, bank heists, kidnappings, and controversial cults, watch these true crime Netflix documentaries.
- agarrity@hearst.com
- 3 min
- Capturing The Killer Nurse
- The Anthrax Attacks
- Girl in The Picture
- American Murder: The Family Next Door
- Abducted in Plain Sight
- Why Did You Kill Me?
- Amanda Knox
- Operation Varsity Blues
- Memories of A Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes
- Our Father
For more than a decade, Charles Cullen worked as a nurse at several hospitals and health care facilities between New Jersey and Pennsylvania. And everywhere he went, patients died at an unusual rate. It wasn’t until 2003 that his colleague and friend Amy Loughren realized what was happening and made it her mission to stop him. Netflix released this...
One week after 9/11, a series of letters containing anthrax spores made their way through the U.S. postal system. Through interviews and reenactments, this documentary takes us through the events of the bioterrorism attack that came to be known as Amerithrax. Actor Clark Gregg, known for his role in the MCU as Agent Phil Coulson, playsthe prime sus...
When investigative journalist Matt Birkbeck came across a seemingly normal yet unsettling photo of a man with a little girl on his lap, he knew there was a story behind it—and he was right. Birbeck covers the shocking string of crimes tied to Franklin Delano Floyd in his two bestselling books, Finding Sharon and A Beautiful Child. Filmmaker Skye Bo...
In this chilling Netflix documentary, director Jenny Popplewell reexamines the tragic 2018 murders of pregnant Colorado woman Shannan Watts and her two young daughters at the hands of her husband, convicted family annihilator Chris Watts. Using police body cam recordings, home security footage, and Shannan’s own social media posts, Popplewell shows...
Skye Borgman’s 2017 documentary presents the jaw-dropping story of Jan Broberg, a small-town Idaho girl who, in the 1970s, was kidnapped by her next-door neighbor—twice. An adult Broberg recounts the bizarre events surrounding the kidnappings, which are just as disturbing as the crimes themselves. Broberg later collaborated with Nick Antosca for Pe...
The 2006 murder of 24-year-old Crystal Theobald might have remained a mystery, had her mother Belinda Lane not conducted her own investigation via social media. Along with Crystal’s teenage cousin Jaimie McIntyre, Belinda set up a MySpace profile using pictures of her daughter to find the person or people involved in her death. The documentary digs...
In 2007, 20-year-old American college student Amanda Knox was studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, when she found herself convicted of the murder of fellow exchange student and roommate Meredith Kercher. This 2016 Emmy-nominated documentary examines the murder investigation, the international media obsession with the case, and the years-long legal pr...
For seven years, Rick Singer accepted millions of dollars from wealthy parents desperate to get their children into the most prestigious universities in America. The scheme was made public in 2019, leading to the arrests of several high-profile individuals who bribed their kids’ way into college, most famously actresses Lori Loughlin (who served tw...
Similar to Netflix’s 2019 docuseries Conversation with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes features 250 hours of never-before-heard jail cell audio recordings of infamous Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen. In the tapes, he details his life, the murders, and how he managed to evade capture for so long. David Te...
Our Fatherexplores how one woman’s curiosity about her ancestry led to her discovery that she had at least 50 half-siblings, all of whom shared the same father. That man, shockingly, was Indianapolis fertility doctor Donald Cline, who, in the 1970s and 1980s, impregnated unwitting patients with his own sperm. The documentary also examines how at-ho...
Dive into some of Netflix’s most notorious murders and true crime mysteries. From the award-winning five-part series on O.J. Simpson to the story of the infamous Murdaugh trial.
- Phillipe Thao
- 2 min
Jul 18, 2023 · 1. Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez. Watch on Netflix. Director Geno McDermott’s three-part 2020 Netflix documentary is as much a story of fame and power as it is what...
Apr 15, 2024 · The breadth of Netflix’s catalog of true-crime docuseries is deep and wide, with truly something for everyone—or at least some type of murder for everyone. The best documentaries reveal the truth about more than just their primary subjects, and the 20 true-crime series here expose the rot at the core of many of our venerated institutions.
