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Documentary: Death Row Confidential: Secrets of a Serial Killer
A death row inmate helps solve cold cases In 2022, cold case detective and former FBI investigator Ken Mains received a letter from Bill Noguera, an inmate on death row at San Quentin prison. Noguera claimed to have information about a serial killer also housed there, Joseph Naso. Naso had been arrested in 2010 following
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Show: Blood Relatives
Family members murder their relatives About Blood Relatives There are many reasons family members clash: money, jealousy, anger, resentment. But these reasons don’t usually provoke murder. In Blood Relatives, they do. This show focuses on murder cases in which family members kill other their relatives, due to affairs, money, child custody issues, and other motives.
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Show: Dateline: The Smoking Gun
Dateline episodes that feature a “smoking gun” About Dateline: The Smoking Gun Dateline: The Smoking Gun takes old Dateline episodes and repackages them into a new show, hosted by Andrea Canning. This “new” series is based on the idea of a smoking gun, or one piece of evidence that leads detectives to the killer, such
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Show: Kiss of Death
Relationships end in murder About Kiss of Death Kiss of Death is one of many true crime shows about intimate partner homicide, but this series focuses on first-person accounts about murders that occurred when relationships went off the rails and ended in murder. Victims’ loved ones, and sometimes victims who survived violent attacks, tell the
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Documentary: The Most Hated Man on the Internet
The fight against Hunter Moore and his revenge porn site To be called the Most Hated Man on the Internet requires a certain degree of despicableness. Hunter Moore does not disappoint. The Netflix documentary (named after a Rolling Stone article) traces the many contemptible acts Moore committed, first by creating a revenge porn site, then
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Show: Fear Thy Neighbor
Feuds between neighbors turn violent About Fear Thy Neighbor Murder, arson, assault. These are all crimes that have been perpetrated by one neighbor against another in the episodes of Fear Thy Neighbor. It’s a show that asks, How do good neighbors become bad ones? How do neighborly relations dissolve into hatred, and then crime? Fear
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Documentary: Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed
The decline of a megachurch, and an empire A church behaving badly is not all that unique, and the Hillsong megachurch is one of the more recent examples. Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed sheds light on the illegal and un-Christian activities that stood in the way of the church’s goal to take over the world. Hillsong’s
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Show: Sins of the South
Homicide cases with a bit of Southern flair About Sins of the South From executive producer Dick Wolf comes the Southern-tinged true crime show Sins of the South. The show features a narrator with a Southern accent, adds a few Southern phrases, and tells stories of homicide cases that took place across the American South.
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Documentary: Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult
The strange story of how TikTok dancers were sucked into a cult Cults come in a variety of flavors, but they all serve the same purpose: control. And Robert Shinn follows that formula with his cult. In 1994, he founded Shekinah Church, a church for Korean Americans, then slowly began to control its members by
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