Lives unravel to the point of murder
About Unraveled
How does a person’s life fall apart to the point that they become a killer? What does it take to push a person past rationality towards the most heinous of crimes? Unraveled attempts to answer these questions. The show’s cases consider how a person unravels so fully that they turn to murder, often due to mental illness or being pushed to the edge by their life circumstances, choosing what they see as the only way out.
Because of this focus on the killer’s unraveling, episodes devote more attention to their life and background, rather than the victim’ story, and not all episodes include victims’ loved ones, instead emphasizing interviews with people who knew the killers. The show still includes narration and re-creations, like most true crime series, as well as police interviews, but deviates by focusing on the killer’s narrative.
Similar to Snapped, Unraveled follows perpetrators who disintegrate into crime, snapping and unraveling to the darkest place imaginable.
The Show Elements
Seasons: 2 (2015-2017)
Where to stream: Tubi, Discovery+, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Max
More shows like Unraveled: Snapped, Evil Lives Here
See also this list of true crime shows
✓ Police interviews
✘ Trial clips
✓ Narration
✓ Re-creations
✘ Experts
✓ Victims’ families and friends
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