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Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes 2022
Documentary
He dined with the powerful. He preyed on the vulnerable. Beneath a smiling exterior was the horrifying darkness of a sadistic serial killer.
The sides of Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes
- Recorded interviews with John Wayne Gacy
- Chicago suburbs in the 1970s
- The investigation that led to his crawlspace
Good for you if
- you want to hear a real killer in his own recorded words.
- you follow how investigators finally caught a man the town trusted.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit through the murders of young men told in detail.
- you need some hope, and the families' grief stays to the end.
About: evil behind a smile · justice · the victims
Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer 2021
Documentary
In 1970s NYC, the “Torso Killer” preys on women to fulfill his grotesque fantasies while eluding police. A docuseries dive into crime’s darkest places.
The sides of Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer
- Murders of women in 1970s New York
- Times Square in its roughest years
- Detectives and families looking back
Good for you if
- you want true crime that remembers the women who were killed.
- you like to understand how a killer went unnoticed for years.
- you're drawn to the New York of the 1970s and its Times Square.
Bad for you if
- you can't face the murders of real women, even told soberly.
- you can't stand descriptions of brutal crimes.
About: the victims · the city · justice
Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer 2021
Documentary
Beneath the sunlit glamour of 1985 L.A. lurks a relentlessly evil serial killer. In this true-crime story, two detectives won't rest until they catch him.
The sides of Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer
- Los Angeles in the summer of 1985
- Two detectives on a serial killer's trail
- Witnesses and survivors telling what they saw
Good for you if
- you like a manhunt where the city waits for the next attack.
- you like the feel of 1980s Los Angeles in archive footage.
- you want the detectives who worked the case to tell it.
Bad for you if
- you can't hear survivors recall attacks in their own homes.
- you can't look at crime scene photos.
About: fear · the hunt · justice
I'll Be Gone in the Dark 2020
Documentary
An exploration of the case of the Golden State Killer who terrorized California in the 1970s and 1980s, committing 50 sexual assaults and 10 murders, and true crime author Michelle McNamara's obsessive quest to find justice on behalf of his victims.
The sides of I'll Be Gone in the Dark
- The Golden State Killer case
- Michelle McNamara, a true crime writer
- Survivors telling what happened to them
Good for you if
- you like an amateur detective piecing together clues decades old.
- you want the survivors' voices at the centre of a true crime story.
- you care as much about Michelle McNamara's obsession as about the case.
Bad for you if
- you can't hear real survivors of rape describe their attacks.
- you can't sleep after hearing about a man breaking into homes at night.
About: obsession · grief · justice
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes 2022
Documentary
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to his gruesome crimes in unguarded interviews, offering an unsettling view into a disturbed mind.
The sides of Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes
- Jeffrey Dahmer's recorded interviews with his lawyers
- Investigators looking back on the case
- Warning signs missed in Milwaukee
Good for you if
- you want to hear a real case through the original tapes.
- you want to understand how the warning signs were missed for years.
Bad for you if
- you can't listen to a killer describe what he did to his victims.
- you need some light, and this story of a killer and his victims offers none.
About: true crime · missed warnings · the victims
The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness 2021
Documentary
The Son of Sam case grew into a lifelong obsession for journalist Maury Terry, who became convinced that the murders were linked to a Satanic cult.
The sides of The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness
- A journalist obsessed with the Son of Sam case
- A theory of a Satanic cult
- 1970s New York in fear
Good for you if
- you like 1970s New York, its tabloids and its summer of fear.
- you like following a theory that the killer did not act alone.
- you like a portrait of a man consumed by his own investigation.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not revisit the murders of real young people.
- you need a theory backed by proof, not obsession.
About: obsession · truth · fear
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes 2019
Documentary
A unique look inside the mind of an infamous serial killer with this cinematic self-portrait crafted from statements made by Ted Bundy, including present-day interviews, archival footage and audio recordings from death row.
The sides of Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
- Ted Bundy's own taped interviews from death row
- Archive footage of 1970s trials
- Detectives and journalists who followed the case
Good for you if
- you want to hear a real case from the recordings themselves.
- you like 1970s archive footage of a case that marked America.
Bad for you if
- you can't listen to a man describe crimes against real young women.
- you need some hope, and this offers none.
About: evil · justice · the media
The Confession Killer 2019
Documentary
Henry Lee Lucas rose to infamy when he confessed to hundreds of unsolved murders. This docuseries examines the truth -- and horrifying consequences.
The sides of The Confession Killer
- A drifter who confessed to hundreds of murders
- Lawmen who closed cases on his word
- Families still waiting for the truth
Good for you if
- you want to understand how one man's confessions misled the police.
- you like true crime that questions the investigators.
- you like finding out which confessions could be true.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch stories of real murder victims.
- you need justice at the end, and many families never got it.
About: justice · false confessions · grief
Worst Roommate Ever 2022
Documentary
Roommates with malevolent and sometimes violent intentions turn the lives of their unsuspecting victims into real-life nightmares. These terrifying true stories unveil some of the worst cohabitation experiences one could ever imagine.
The sides of Worst Roommate Ever
- Real people who shared a home with someone dangerous
- Victims and families telling their own story
- Detectives and 911 calls
Good for you if
- you want true stories told by the people who lived them.
- you follow true crime and the investigations behind it.
- you like the slow realization that something is wrong at home.
Bad for you if
- you find real murders and grieving families too hard to watch.
- you scare easily and live with a roommate.
About: trust · fear · home
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills 1996
Documentary
A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.
The sides of Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
- Three boys murdered in West Memphis
- Three teenagers put on trial
- A town gripped by fear of satanism
Good for you if
- you want the true story of the West Memphis Three, told as it unfolded.
- you want to see a murder trial from inside the courtroom.
- you like weighing the evidence yourself.
Bad for you if
- you can't take the murder of children and their families' grief on screen.
- two and a half hours is too much for you.
About: justice · fear · prejudice
American Murder: Gabby Petito 2025
Documentary
What happened in the final days of Gabby Petito's life? In this gripping true-crime series, her loved ones reveal the untold story of her tragic murder.
The sides of American Murder: Gabby Petito
- A young couple's van trip across America
- Her family and friends telling her story
- Her own messages and police bodycam footage
Good for you if
- you want to understand Gabby Petito's last weeks beyond the headlines.
- you want to follow a missing-person search that turns into a nationwide manhunt.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a story of domestic abuse that ends in murder.
- you need some hope at the end of a story.
About: domestic abuse · grief · warning signs
Cropsey 2010
Documentary
Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true, two filmmakers delve into the mystery surrounding five missing children and the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearances.
The sides of Cropsey
- A Staten Island urban legend
- Children who went missing
- The ruins of an abandoned institution
Good for you if
- you like two filmmakers digging into the disappearances of their childhood.
- you like the chill of a boogeyman story that turns out to be real.
- you like true crime set in the woods and ruins of Staten Island.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a film about missing children.
- you need every question answered by the end.
About: urban legends · fear · missing children
American Nightmare 2024
Documentary
After a harrowing home invasion and kidnapping in 2015, a couple is accused of staging the ordeal when the woman reappears, haunting the couple with a new series of tortures.
The sides of American Nightmare
- A woman taken from her home in California in 2015
- A couple the police refused to believe
- Victims treated as suspects
Good for you if
- you want the real people telling their own story in their own words.
- you like a case that keeps changing what you thought you knew.
- you like a true story told with the suspense of a thriller.
Bad for you if
- you can't hear a real kidnapping and assault described by the woman who lived it.
- you need more than interviews and recordings to stay hooked.
About: disbelief · trauma · justice
Capturing the Killer Nurse 2022
Documentary
Charlie Cullen was an experienced registered nurse, trusted and beloved by his colleagues at Somerset Medical Center in New Jersey. He is also one of history’s most prolific serial killers, with a body count potentially numbering in the hundreds across multiple medical facilities in the Northeast.
The sides of Capturing the Killer Nurse
- A nurse who killed patients for years
- A colleague who helped stop him
- Hospitals that looked away
Good for you if
- you want to understand how Charles Cullen went unnoticed for so long.
- you like true crime told by the people who brought him down.
- you like detectives and a fellow nurse piecing a case together from hospital records.
Bad for you if
- you can't take a story of patients killed where they should have been safe.
- you need chases and action in a crime story.
About: trust · responsibility · institutions
MINDHUNTER 2017
Series
In the late 1970s, two FBI agents start interviewing imprisoned serial killers to understand how they think, and use what they learn on open cases.
The sides of MINDHUNTER
- Interviews with real killers
- The birth of criminal profiling
- What the work does to the people doing it
Good for you if
- you like tension that comes from people talking across a table.
- you like stories built on real cases and real killers.
- you like a slow, quiet build more than action.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand a story left unfinished, and the series stopped after two seasons with the BTK thread still open.
- you don't want to hear crimes against women and children described in detail.
About: evil · method · the 1970s · obsession
The Perfect Neighbor 2025
Documentary
Police bodycam footage reveals how a long-running neighborhood dispute turned fatal in this documentary about fear, prejudice and Stand Your Ground laws.
The sides of The Perfect Neighbor
- A neighborhood feud seen through police bodycam footage
- A mother shot through a closed door in Florida
- Florida's Stand Your Ground law
Good for you if
- you like watching a small dispute build call after call toward something worse.
- you want a story told almost only through real police footage.
- you want to see how Florida's Stand Your Ground law plays out after a shooting.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a real mother's death and her children's grief.
- you need some hope by the end of a true story.
About: fear · prejudice · justice
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer 2003
Documentary
British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.
The sides of Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
- Nick Broomfield's interviews with Aileen Wuornos
- Her last days on death row
- Her childhood in Michigan
Good for you if
- you want a real person behind the headlines.
- you like a portrait of someone you can't easily judge.
- you can take a story that ends in an execution.
Bad for you if
- you can't take childhood abuse and mental illness on screen.
- you want a gentle evening, and this is a woman on death row.
About: the death penalty · trauma · madness
The Dissident 2020
Documentary
When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a global cover up perpetrated by the very country he loved.
The sides of The Dissident
- A journalist who walks into a consulate in Istanbul
- His fiancée waiting outside
- Dissidents fighting a state online
Good for you if
- you want the facts of the Jamal Khashoggi case laid out piece by piece.
- you like an investigation that plays like a thriller.
- you want to understand how a state hunts its critics abroad.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit with a real murder and the grief of the people left behind.
- you can't hear the details of a killing described.
About: free speech · surveillance · impunity
Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer 2019
Documentary
A twisted criminal's gruesome videos drive a group of amateur online sleuths to launch a risky manhunt that pulls them into a dark underworld.
The sides of Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer
- Online amateur sleuths tracking a man who posts animal cruelty videos
- Clues found in the background of video frames
- A hunt that ends with a real murder
Good for you if
- you like an investigation solved from tiny details in the background of a video.
- you want to know how a killer used the internet to be seen.
- you like a three-episode manhunt where the stakes keep rising for the amateur sleuths.
Bad for you if
- you can't take detailed accounts of animals and a man being killed.
- you can't take a true crime where the victim's family is still grieving.
About: the internet · attention · guilt
The Crash 2026
Documentary
A teen slams her car into a building, killing her boyfriend and his friend. What seems like a tragic accident becomes a murder case.
The sides of The Crash
- A car crash that killed two young men
- A teenage driver on trial
- Investigators asking if it was an accident
Good for you if
- you like true crime that follows a case into the courtroom.
- you like a question to answer: accident or murder.
- you want to hear the real parents and investigators tell the case.
Bad for you if
- you can't take the grief of families who lost their sons.
- you need some hope in a story about young lives lost.
About: young love · grief · justice