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Where the truth really is stranger - and darker - than fiction. Deadly cults, infamous serial killers, cold cases rekindled… we get your obsession.

Where the truth really is stranger - and darker - than fiction.

True Crime Story: Smugshot
True Crime Story: Smugshot

A docu-series that spotlights entitled individuals involved in elaborate criminal behavior. At times quirky and funny, at others outrageous or disturbing, these are the stories of people who thought they could, or should, get away with it.

The Flight Attendant Murders
The Flight Attendant Murders

This documentary series explores the murders of four flight attendants in the 70's and 80's in Texas. Over 4 episodes we'll unpick this story and ask if the wrong man has been incarcerated for 4 decades and another killer left undiscovered?

True Crime Story: Citizen Detective
True Crime Story: Citizen Detective

TRUE CRIME STORY: CITIZEN DETECTIVE is a documentary true crime series about everyday citizens solving murders. Each episode unpacks the details of the case and explores the perplexing psyches of those who simply need to know what happened and why?

Hold Your Fire
Hold Your Fire

The longest hostage siege in NYPD history.

Wrongly Accused
Wrongly Accused

Investigative reporter Louise Shorter re-visits cases where individuals were falsely accused of murder. Shorter examines the original investigations which led to the innocent convictions, in addition to the evidence that caught the actual killers.

The Heiress and the Heist
The Heiress and the Heist

A society debutante... the IRA... and the story behind the world\'s greatest art theft.

True Crime Story: Indefensible
True Crime Story: Indefensible

Jena Friedman probes true crimes that reveal hard truths about our flawed criminal justice system.

True Crime Story: Look Into My Eyes
True Crime Story: Look Into My Eyes

Look Into My Eyes unfurls the story of Dr. George Kenney, former principal of North Port High School in Florida, who hypnotized students. After three of his students die in 2011, the series unpacks what happened and how culpable Dr. K really is.

True Crime Story: It Couldn
True Crime Story: It Couldn't Happen Here

Small town native and advocate Hilarie Burton Morgan explores controversial small town murder cases

Dating Death
Dating Death

True crime docuseries "Dating Death" covers the history of serial killer Rodney Alcala, who appeared on “The Dating Game” amid his murder spree in the 1970s.

Litvinenko
Litvinenko

Former Russian spy and Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko (David Tennant) has been poisoned. Can detectives solve this high-stakes murder investigation?

The Witness
The Witness

The well-known story was that Kitty Genovese was murdered on the street while 38 witnesses did nothing. Fifty years later, her brother uncovers the truth.

Murder in the Valleys
Murder in the Valleys

In one night, three generations of a family were brutally killed in small Welsh village. Despite a conviction, the mystery continues 20 years later.

Southwest of Salem
Southwest of Salem

This Emmy®-nominated documentary is an in-depth examination of the persecutions of four Latina lesbians wrongfully convicted of gang-raping two young girls.

Yorkshire Ripper: The Secret Murders
Yorkshire Ripper: The Secret Murders

1970s England was the killing ground of the Yorkshire Ripper. He was ultimately convicted of 13 murders, but this series shows he may have committed 20 more.

Veleno: The Town of Lost Children
Veleno: The Town of Lost Children

In the late 1990s, an Italian community was disrupted by accusations of diabolic crimes. But 20 years later, an investigation sheds doubt on the entire case.

Trial in the Outback: The Lindy Chamberlain Story
Trial in the Outback: The Lindy Chamberlain Story

In 1980, two-month-old Azaria Chamberlain was snatched by a wild dingo. In their own words, her family finally shares their harrowing story.

The Hunt for a Killer
The Hunt for a Killer

The hunt for young Helén Nilsson´s killer takes 15 years, but Detectives Pelle Åkesson and Monica Olhed never give up and finally solve the impossible case.

Between Black & Blue
Between Black & Blue

The extraordinary true story of two New York City detectives convicted of the 1975 murder of a businessman and the fight to clear their names.

The Dakota Entrapment Tapes
The Dakota Entrapment Tapes

In a sleepy North Dakota town, where the crime rate is so low people often don’t lock their front doors, 20-year-old college student Andrew Sadekmysteriously disappears and is found dead almost two months later. His family and friends are shocked to discover he was living a double life. Even more so, that it was against his will.

Des
Des

In an Emmy® Award-winning performance, David Tennant stars as one of the most infamous serial killers in UK history: the murderer known as the “kindly killer.”

The Oland Murder
The Oland Murder

When mogul Richard Oland was bludgeoned to death, his son was convicted but always claimed to be innocent. This docuseries follows the dramatic road to retrial.

The Preppy Murder: Death in Central Park
The Preppy Murder: Death in Central Park

This timely and emotionally-charged true crime series vividly reexamines one of the most sensational crimes in American history; the brutal 1986 murder of Jennifer Levin at the hands of Robert Chambers. A case that infamously came to be known as The Preppy Murder.

Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle

Jim Jones. A name that lives in infamy. This chilling true crime series investigates the charismatic preacher turned cult leader who ordered the deaths of over 900 people.

No One Saw a Thing
No One Saw a Thing

In July of 1981, 60 townspeople shot Ken Rex McElroy dead. The still unsolved act of vigilantism is the subject of this gripping true crime series.