True crime documentaries on Netflix come with the kind of real-life drama so gripping that for that hour or so, you forget everything else in life. It’s for this reason that we can’t. Get. Enough. And we’re not the only ones.
We never get tired of discovering how disturbingly screwed up the human race is – the fact that real-life people have committed some of these crimes is truly disturbing but, in some weird way, compelling. I mean, take, for example, the story of prominent South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh who was found guilty of killing his wife and son. Keeping it family-theme, Lori Vallow, who is accused of killing her own children in the documentary Sins Of Our Mother is also another shocking watch. Or the story of fertility doctor Donald Cline, who inseminated his patients with his own sperm, chronicled in Our Father…
Other docs look at the power of influence from cult-like leaders such as hot yoga guru Bikram Choudhury in Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator and Warren Jeffs in Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey – both of who saw their unravelling due to a series of abuse, sexual assault and manipulation.
Then there are those bizarre real-life stories that are just too difficult to wrap our heads around. Case in point, the doc Girl in the Picture, which viewers have labelled “The most frightening thing they’ve ever seen”, and Evil Genius: The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist, which looks at the infamous moment a pizza delivery guy walked in to rob a bank with a bomb tied around his neck…
So, have you got your notepad at the ready and detective hat on? Great. Because when it comes to the murky world of true crime docs, nothing is ever what it seems. From stories that tap into secret lives, dangerous roommates, and tales of millennial scamming and murder, these are the best true crime documentaries to watch on Netflix right now.