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The Best in True Crime...Docs, Podcasts, Books, ets.
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items I've always had a deep interest in crime and psychology, which explains much about my current Forensic Psych grad student status. Here are some of the most intriguing documentaries,, podcasts, and books I have watched, listened to, and read over the ...
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Recommended True Crime Documentaries
Beginning with Mallory Beach's passing, the series follows the Murdaugh family and the circumstances surrounding Alex Murdaugh's trial. On February 22, 2023, Netflix launched it. Before a fatal boating accident starts to unravel the Murdaugh family's...
Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal
In League City, Texas, the bodies of murder victims are discovered on a plot of land; despite the fact that the killings are still unsolved, one man is determined to find his daughter's killer.
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields
When Milwaukee police break into the apartment of thirty-one-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer in July of 1991, they discover a freezer full of human heads, skulls, bones, and other remains, as well as a haunting unique exhibition owned to a serial killer.
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes
Exposing the truth beneath the wholesome Americana surface of the Duggar family made famous by TLC.
Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets
I finished watching The Curious Case of Natalia Grace in one sitting. The tale of Natalia is so captivating. It is a devastating portrayal of cruelty and neglect with more twists and turns than narrative fiction. However, it must be seen because Nata...
The Curious Case Of Natalia Grace
This gripping movie is full of twists and turns, courtesy of the two distinct abductions of Jan Broberg in the 1970s. Await one of the most bizarre tales you've ever heard.
Abducted in Plain Sight
Why did Chris Watts decide to kill his daughters and wife? American Murder: The Family Next Door explores all the angles surrounding the slaying and its investigations in order to determine what could possibly drive a man to commit such a horrific ac...
American Murder: The Family Next Door
When Internet folklore crosses the line, two teenage girls attempted to kill one of their peers based on a creepypasta myth. This is known as the "Beware the Slenderman" story.
Beware the Slenderman
Frédéric Bourdin, a French con artist, conned a family in Texas into thinking he was their long-lost relative who had been kidnapped in the 1990s. The movie explores Bourdin's deceit and its consequences. Who would fall for this, you ask yourself at ...
The Imposter
This tragic account details the life of transgender Nebraskan man Brandon Teena. When two men discovered that Teena was born with a female gender assignment, they raped and killed him. The movie Boys Don't Cry was inspired by the true story, and Hila...
The Brandon Teena Story
Larry King, a student in middle school, had no idea that his same-sex crush on a classmate would endanger his life. But it did, and King's assassination made clear how the system and his school had let him down.
Valentine Road
Crazy, Not Insane, which was released in March 2020, centers on the work of psychiatrist Dorothy Otnow Lewis and highlights her contentious opinions regarding mental illness, serial killers, and the death penalty. In addition, Laura Dern narrates the...
Crazy, Not Insane
As the movie explores the history of Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, former members of the church file accusations of mistreatment and exploitation against the organization.
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
This riveting documentary follows the aftermath of a double homicide trial, where a Virginia teen and her boyfriend (the son of a German diplomat) were accused of murdering her parents.
Killing for Love
Not that Scotty Bowers moved to Tinseltown to work as an escort and pimp. When he began providing paid sex partners for some of the biggest names in Hollywood, however, the job gave him more power than he ever could have imagined. In Ryan Murphy's Ne...
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
This moving movie chronicles the fate of two teenage girls who become victims of sexual assault by male classmates they believed to be trustworthy. Following the incident, both girls attempt suicide and experience online harassment; only one of them ...
Audrie & Daisy
This unsettling movie explores two murder cases in Iceland forty years after the crimes, demonstrating that confessions do not always result in clear-cut cases.
Watch Out of Thin Air (2017) Full Movie Online - Plex
In the summer of 1976, 10-year-old Andy Puglisi from Massachusetts is kidnapped from his neighborhood pool and never seen again. The filmmaker, who was Andy's childhood friend, is still troubled by his disappearance and decides to look for answers.
Have You Seen Andy?
The movie follows Ross Ulbricht's trial after he was detained and accused of starting the Silk Road under the alias "the Dread Pirate Roberts." The most notorious online black market for drugs and other illicit goods used to be Silk Road. However, di...
Deep Web
The Tinder Swindler is the story of Shimon Hayut, also known as Simon Leviev, who wooed several women with a lavish, jet-setting lifestyle while conniving and catfishing them out of millions of dollars.
[Uk] Tinder Swindler (2022): A Crime Documentary on a Fraud artist ...
An unseen intruder knocks out a high school student who is returning home after a night of drinking. When her parents pretend nothing happened, she quickly tries to find out the truth after finding herself safe in her bed.
A Family Nightmare: Secrets on Maple Street
Books
Recommended True Crime Books
David's perseverance allowed him to gain admission to college and success in his career. He unintentionally set off a revenge plot that would force him into a fatal confrontation with Thurston Crow when he finally mustered the guts to reject his fath...
The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story
Even though the details of well-known cases can be horrifying, true crime enthusiasts are searching for something more than the routine deaths they have heard countless times. They search for enigmas, detours, and circumstances that seem out of the o...
Bizarre True Crime Stories: 20 Twisted Cases
How did Israel Keyes, a murderer of this caliber elude detection by law enforcement for more than ten years? The author tells the real tale of how Israel Keyes was finally apprehended by the FBI in 2012 and attempting to comprehend what it means for ...
American Predator: The Hunt for a Serial Killer
This book transports readers back to that fateful night and delves into the disappearance that created front-page headlines worldwide. It features original reporting, and new testimony witnesses never supplied to police. The author helps to break ove...
College Girl, Missing: A True Disappearance
This book is a compelling, literary account of a small-town murder investigation that was blazing beneath the constant spotlight of attention from around the world. The true-crime media, citizen investigators, and traditional investigators all collab...
While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers
The most prolific serial killer in American history, Samuel Little, is shown here. This isn't your typical biography, though; the author skillfully arranges the pages like a documentary, weaving together sections about Little's early life, the influe...
Behold the Monster: America's Serial Killer
After going through several legal problems and getting divorced, Boone Helm and his cousin decided to go "Out West" in 1850 to pursue the California Gold Rush. Helm was so furious that his cousin had abruptly withdrawn that he fatally stabbed him. He...
The Kentucky Cannibal: True Story of an Outlaw
A terrifying story of one of the most horrific serial killers in real-life crime history, Peter Kurten. Nobody was secure. In addition to killing men, women, and children, he also carried out vicious attacks and sexual assaults. Upon satisfying his l...
The Monster Within: A True Story of Evil
WARNING: There are detailed reports of abuse and violence in this book. It might be best not to read if this material particularly sensitively affects you. An eerie and compelling narrative of one of the most horrific and violent true crime tales in ...
Kill 'Em All: A True Story of Abuse
Podcasts
A podcast that examines Black female killers from a unique perspective—demonstrating how the legal system handles them differently than white female murderers—is hosted by MaRah and Taz, who have been best friends since high school. For those who app...
Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast on Apple Podcasts
Hands Off My Podcast, which is hosted by Jasmine Castillo, describes its approach to true crime as "ethical." By "focusing on the #MMIP2S, #AANHPI, #BIPOC, and #LGBTQ communities" and using her platform to amplify those who have been silenced or igno...
Hands Off My Podcast: True Crime
Root of Evil, a spin-off of TNT's drama I Am the Night, which centers on the infamous 1947 unsolved Black Dahlia murder, is hosted by Rasha Pecoraro and Yvette Gentile. The guests are George Handel's great-granddaughters, who are thought to be the mu...
Root of Evil
Morbid is a lighthearted take on murder, with hosts Alaina Urquhart, an autopsy tech, and her hairdresser niece Ash Kelley picking a well-known (or sometimes not-so-well-known) crime to delve into each week. The reason to tune in is their entertainin...
Morbid
Bear Brook, which premiered on New Hampshire Public Radio with Jason Moon as host, centers on a long-cold case that started in Bear Brook State Park. Decades later, fresh evidence is discovered, leading to a reopening of the case, and Moon shares his...
Bear Brook
This mission-driven podcast, which is hosted by Jadyn Harlow, raises awareness of the numerous cases of Black and Brown individuals going missing but receiving little attention from the public or police enforcement. In an effort to assist their famil...
the missing found podcast
Suspect, hosted by Ashley Fantz and Matthew Shaer, looks at instances where the legal system failed and reexamines the choices made by juries, detectives, lawyers, and other parties that resulted in those miscarriages. With a very committed audience,...
Suspect | Podcast on Spotify
The Red Note, hosted by Lydia Cacho, looks into the Juarez femicides and gained international attention when it first aired. It was included in annual "best of" lists in Germany, Mexico, and Paraguay. The podcast has become the top show in both Apple...
The Red Note – Podcast
Another of the more informal approaches to true crime discussions, the podcast is hosted by Ashley Flowers and Brit Pawat and is titled "whatever case Ashley is obsessing about." A large portion of Crime Junkie's appeal stems from its relatability—mu...
Crime Junkie Podcast