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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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  • Documentary: Escaping Twin Flames

    A cult manipulates people looking for true love If you could find true love, how far would you go to get it? Would you join a cult? That’s the question asked by Escaping Twin Flames. Twin Flames Universe preyed on people’s desires to find love, by espousing the doctrine that everyone has a “twin flame,”…

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  • Documentary: Scamanda

    How Amanda Riley used a fake cancer diagnosis to scam everyone around her If someone you knew said they had cancer, would you believe them? Most likely. Because no one assumes their friend, or coworker, or family member would lie about something that serious. And that’s what Amanda Riley counted on. Riley faked a cancer…

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  • Documentary: The Tinder Swindler

    The story of con artist Simon Leviev A brand-new con exists, one that preys on those looking for love online: romance scams. Netflix’s The Tinder Swindler details the story of Simon Leviev, who conned women he dated—and others—out of millions of dollars to support his lavish lifestyle. He met women on the dating app Tinder,…

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  • Show: Your Worst Nightmare

    A thriller-esque true crime show About Your Worst Nightmare What’s your worst fear? Maybe it’s getting buried alive, or stalked, or kidnapped. You might discover it in an episode of Your Worst Nightmare, a thriller-esque true crime show that features nightmarish situations like being terrorized in one’s own home, tortured, or murdered by a jealous…

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  • Documentary: Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives.

    A vegan restaurateur gets scammed by a practiced con artist Stories like the one in Bad Vegan are almost unbelievable, that one person could fall for so many lies and end up in the trap of scammer only interested in draining them of all of their money. Somehow the charisma and storytelling abilities of such…

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