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Making a Murderer
Making a Murderer is a 2015 American true-crime documentary series by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos following Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, convicted of murdering Teresa Halbach.
Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer
Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer is a 2024 three-episode Hulu documentary series, directed by Abby Fuller and executive produced by Dakota and Elle Fanning, profiling FBI profiling pioneer Dr. Ann Burgess.
McMillions
McMillions (McMillion$) is a 2020 six-part HBO documentary series by James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte about Jerome Jacobson's $24 million McDonald's Monopoly game fraud and the FBI's Operation Final Answer.
MH370: The Plane That Disappeared
MH370: The Plane That Disappeared is a three-part Netflix documentary series directed by Louise Malkinson, released in 2023 on the ninth anniversary of the flight's 2014 disappearance.
Michael Jackson: The Verdict
Michael Jackson: The Verdict is a 2026 three-part Netflix docuseries, directed by Nick Green and produced by Candle True Stories, that revisits Jackson's 2005 criminal trial and acquittal on all 10 counts.
Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan
Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan is a 2021 four-part Netflix true-crime docuseries directed by Olivier Megaton about Billy Milligan, whose 24-personality dissociative identity disorder defense led to a first-of-its-kind 1978 insanity acquittal.
Monsters of God
Monsters of God is a 2026 five-part HBO documentary series by Eric Goode (Tiger King, Chimp Crazy) tracing the billion-dollar illegal reptile smuggling trade, based on Bryan Christy's The Lizard King, winner of the 2026 SXSW TV Premiere Audience Award.
Most Evil
Most Evil (2006–2015) is an American true-crime documentary series in which Columbia forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone rates killers on his scale of evil; later episodes were hosted by Kris Mohandie, and a 2018 spinoff, Most Evil: Ranked, continued the format.
Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal
Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal is a Netflix true-crime docuseries (2023, two seasons) by Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason on the Mallory Beach boat crash, the Maggie and Paul Murdaugh murders, and Alex Murdaugh's trial.
Murder 24/7
Murder 24/7 is a BBC true-crime documentary series following live UK murder investigations from first call to charge, using bodycam footage with no narration; three seasons since 2020, including the 2025 West Mercia series on the Aurman Singh case.
Murder Among the Mormons
Murder Among the Mormons is a 2021 three-part Netflix true-crime documentary series directed by Jared Hess and Tyler Measom about the 1985 Salt Lake City pipe bombings and document forger Mark Hofmann.
My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders
My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders is a 2026 Paramount+ three-part true-crime docuseries, also called the Monster of Green Hollow series, about Lucy Studey McKiddy's allegations that her father Donald Dean Studey killed 50 to 70 people in Iowa; excavations found no remains.
Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer
Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer is a four-part Netflix docuseries (January 13, 2021) directed by Tiller Russell about the 1985 manhunt for Richard Ramirez by detectives Gil Carrillo and Frank Salerno.
November 13: Attack on Paris
November 13: Attack on Paris (13 novembre: Fluctuat Nec Mergitur) is a 2018 three-part Netflix documentary by Jules and Gédéon Naudet on the November 13, 2015 Paris attacks, told through survivor, firefighter, police, and government testimonies.
One Night in Idaho: The College Murders
One Night in Idaho: The College Murders is a 2025 four-part Prime Video docuseries by Liz Garbus and Matthew Galkin on the November 2022 University of Idaho student murders, centered on victims' families, with a greenlit Season 2 on the investigators.
Outcry
Outcry (2020) is a five-part Showtime true-crime docuseries directed by Pat Kondelis about Texas football star Greg Kelley's wrongful conviction for child sexual assault, his 25-year sentence, and the appeal that freed him.
Paul T. Goldman
Paul T. Goldman is a 2023 Peacock docuseries directed by Jason Woliner in which Paul Finkelman reenacts his memoir Duplicity, claiming his ex-wife ran an international crime ring, while the show investigates his story.
Perfect Wife: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini
Perfect Wife: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini is a 2024 three-episode Hulu true-crime docuseries by Erin Lee Carr and Michael Beach Nichols about Sherri Papini's 2016 staged kidnapping near Redding, California and the six-year investigation that exposed it.
Preaching Evil: A Wife on the Run with Warren Jeffs
Preaching Evil: A Wife on the Run with Warren Jeffs is a 2022 four-episode Peacock documentary miniseries about FLDS leader Warren Jeffs, told through his favorite wife and scribe Naomie Jessop, with interviews of former wives, children, and law enforcement.
Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV
Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV is a 2024 Investigation Discovery docuseries, directed by Mary Robertson and Emma Schwartz, exposing abuse on Nickelodeon sets, Drake Bell's revelation about Brian Peck, and Dan Schneider's defamation suit.
Rotten
Rotten is a Netflix investigative documentary series (2 seasons, 2018 and 2019) from Zero Point Zero Production, with lead researcher Christine Haughney, exposing food fraud and supply-chain corruption one ingredient per episode.
Ruby & Jodi: A Cult of Sin and Influence
Four-part 2025 Investigation Discovery docuseries, directed by Olivia Crist and streaming on HBO Max, examining Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt's child abuse case, ConneXions, and the December 2023 guilty pleas.
Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone
Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone, or Зона травмы, is Adam Curtis's 2022 seven-part BBC iPlayer documentary built from BBC Moscow archive footage, narrated by block-capital captions, covering the Soviet collapse through Putin's rise.
Sasquatch
Sasquatch (2021) is a three-episode Hulu true crime docuseries, also called the Sasquatch murder documentary, directed by Joshua Rofé, in which journalist David Holthouse investigates a 1993 Mendocino County triple homicide blamed on Bigfoot.
Sean Combs: The Reckoning
Sean Combs: The Reckoning is a four-part 2025 Netflix docuseries, also called the Diddy documentary, directed by Alexandria Stapleton and executive produced by 50 Cent, covering Combs's rise, abuse allegations, and trial.
Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult
Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult is a four-part American documentary series directed by Cecilia Peck, released on Starz in 2020, following India Oxenberg's journey through the NXIVM cult and DOS.
Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets
Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets is a 2023 four-part Prime Video docuseries about the Duggar family, their TLC show 19 Kids and Counting, and abuse allegations tied to Bill Gothard's Institute in Basic Life Principles.
Should I Marry a Murderer?
Should I Marry a Murderer? is a 2026 three-part Netflix true-crime documentary directed by Josh Allott about pathologist Caroline Muirhead, who stayed engaged to Sandy McKellar after he confessed to killing cyclist Tony Parsons and helped police gather evidence.
Snapped
Snapped is an American true crime documentary series on Oxygen, first aired August 6, 2004, produced by Jupiter Entertainment in Knoxville, profiling women accused of murder; over 500 episodes, 33 seasons by 2024, narrated mostly by Sharon Martin.
Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence
Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence is a three-part 2023 Hulu docuseries directed by Zach Heinzerling about Larry Ray's cult of Sarah Lawrence College students, told through survivor interviews, tapes, and video recordings.