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The 15 Best True-Crime Docuseries on Netflix Right Now · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Making a Murderer the grand puba of true crime docuceries. Laura Richiardi and Moira
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  Demos's Emmy winning Making a Murderer follows the story of Stephen Avery, who was
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  falsely convicted of sexual assault and spent eighteen years in prison before being released and
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  subsequently charged along with his teen nephew with murder of another woman, The Keepers,
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  Ryan Whites. The Keepers traces the unsolved murder of a Catholic nun in
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  Baltimore in nineteen sixty nine through the perspective of the former students at the All
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  Girls High School with a twenty seven year old taught English and drama. Don't
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  f Asterisk asterisk k with Cats Hunting and Internet Killer Don't f Asterisk asterisk k
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  with Cats is another docuceries about a yet another serial killer, only this one
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  murders kittens and has a group of intrepid Internet sleuths on his tail as he
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  goes on the run across the globe. At a lean, easy to binge
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  three episodes, this stylish series manages to squeeze in a tour of the dark
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  Web, a brief lesson in photo metadata, and a as it turns out
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  pivotal breakdown of the killer's obsession with American psycho and basic instinct. Vatican Girl,
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  The Disappearance of Emmanuela or Landy. The as yet unexplained disappearance of fifteen
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  year old Emmanuela or Landi in nineteen eighty three has unearthed over the course of
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  four decades, a vast and complicated conspiracy involving money laundering, organized crime,
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  the Vatican Bank and Pope John Paul, The Seconds, meddling in Eastern European
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  politics, American conspiracy, the Octopus murders. The so called suicide of investigative
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  reporter Danny Castle Laro in a hotel bathtub in nineteen ninety one exposes a vast
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  global conspiracy that involves rogue computer software, biological weapons, and the nineteen eighty
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  presidential campaign that put Ronald Reagan in the White House. Murder among the Mormons.
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  In the nineteen eighties, former Mormon missionary Mark Hoffman was accused of forging
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  countless historical documents, some of which directly contradicted the teachings of the LDS Church,
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  including one that claimed a white salamander not an angel. Led Joseph Smith
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  to the Book of Mormon The Staircase. About halfway through the thirteen episode Dockersaries
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  The Staircase, you start a question whether Michael Peterson actually killed his wife.
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  The then fifty eight year old novelist admitted to having sexual relationships with other men
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  during his marriage, and the defense's assertion that Kathleen Peterson died from a fall
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  down the stairs strains credulity. Evil Genius, produced by the Duplus Brothers.
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  Evil Genius fascinatingly unravels the mystery behind the infamous Pizza Bomber bank heist that became
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  grist for the national media's true crime obsession in the early part of the twenty
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  first century. Waco American Apocalypse. Tilla Russell's Waco American Apocalypse eschews much in
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  the way of historical context about David Korish and his branch Davidian Cult in favor
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  of a detailed and even handed account of what the mother of one of the
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  surviving members calls abuses of power sins of our mother. The mother in question
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  is Laurie Valo, a Mormon doomsdare who fell under the spell of a Charlatan
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  Chad Daybell, who allegedly conve vininced her that two of her children were possessed
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  by demons. American Nightmare, a supposed real life gone Girl. American Nightmare,
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  meticulously unspools the bizarre, unbelievable case of a young woman who was abducted
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  from her boyfriend's house in the middle of the night. The three part series
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  cleverly positioned said boyfriend as the obvious suspect, making us complicit in the institutional
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  bias that kept the case unsolved for months. Murdaor Murders A Southern Scandal A
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  real life succession meets House of Cards. The Gripping murdaor Murders A Southern Scandal
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  recounts the crimes and corruption of a wealthy dynasty in the low country of South
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  Carolina. Keep Sweet, Pray, and Obey. The fundamentalist sect of Mormonism
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  known as FLDS believes in plural marriage, but under the auspices of its self
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  appointed prophet, Warren Jeffs, the cult infamously became one of the most elaborate
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  child rape operations in modern history, with its leader as its sole beneficiary.
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  Till Murder Do Us Part? Soaring versus Haysum a decade's long mystery with geopolitical
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  implications. The nineteen eighty five murders of Derrick and Nancy Haysm were so high
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  profile that they attracted the attention and involvement of novelist John Grisham and the former
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  President of Germany. Worst roommate ever. From a homicidal granny who buries her
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  victims in her garden to a handsome, charismatic con artist who would strangle you,
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  wrap you in a tarp, and leave you for dead in an abandoned
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  warehouse rather than return your deposit. Crime scene, The vanishing at the Cecil
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  Hotel. You've likely already seen the viral video clip of Elise a Lam,
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  seemingly possessed or disturbed, hiding from someone or something in a hotel elevator before
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  disappearing from the frame. The twenty one year old Canadian student was later found
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  in a water tank on the roof of the Cecil Hotel. The Pharmacist what
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  starts out as a familiar true crime tale about a father determined to find the
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  drug dealer who