Category: Shows

Show: Fatal Family Feuds

Family feuds that end in murder

Fatal Family Feuds
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About Fatal Family Feuds

When you think of family feuds, the Hatfields and McCoys might come to mind, two feuding families that fought over decades. Fatal Family Feuds has a few cases between different families, but it mostly details murder cases involving members of the same family. And they’re not so much feuds as disagreements and issues involving child custody, inheritance, life insurance, or divorce.

Sometimes the cases consist of intimate partner homicide, or murders of one spouse by their in-laws, or sometimes adult children kill a parent out of bitterness or for money.

In each episode, family members provide their perspective on the cases, and detectives chime in on the investigations. Fatal Family Feuds has a lot of overlap with Blood Relatives, Evil Kin, and Dateline, but some cases are newly covered.

The Show Elements

Seasons: 2 (2023-)

Where to stream: Peacock, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video

More shows like Fatal Family Feuds: Blood Relatives, Evil Kin, Feuds Turned Fatal

See also this list of true crime shows

✓ Police interviews
✘ Trial clips
✓ Narration
✓ Re-creations
✘ Experts
✓ Victims’ families and friends

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Show: Cold Case Files: Dead West

Cold Cases in the American West

Cold Case Files: Dead West
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About Cold Case Files: Dead West

Cold Case Files: Dead West puts a spin on the Cold Case Files series with a focus on murders in the American West. From Montana to Texas, the show looks at murders in specific locations in the West that were long-unsolved and traces how detectives and cold case units solved them after many years, and sometimes, decades.

Unlike other Cold Case Files shows, the narrator isn’t Bill Kurtis. Instead, this show adds a little western atmosphere with a narrator who sounds like a weathered old cowboy. It’s a regional series similar to Southern Fried Homicide and Sins of the South, but focusing on cold cases.

The Show Elements

Seasons: 1 (2025-)

Where to stream: Hulu

More shows like Cold Case Files: Dead West: Southern Fried Homicide, Sins of the South, Murder in the Wicked West, Homicide City: Charlotte, Homicide Squad: Atlanta, Murder Nation: Blood on the Bayou, The Real Murders of Atlanta, Serial Killer Capital: Baton Rouge, Southern Gothic

See also this list of true crime shows

✓ Police interviews
✘ Trial clips
✓ Narration
✘ Re-creations
✘ Experts
✓ Victims’ families and friends

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Show: Murder Under the Friday Night Lights

Football is the setting for murder

Murder Under the Friday Night Lights
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About Murder Under the Friday Night Lights

Football is a violent sport, no doubt, but who knew there were so many murders associated with it? Murder Under the Friday Night Lights presents cases of cheerleaders, football players, coaches, and even marching band members involved in murders and attempted murders, either as victims or perpetrators.

These murders occurred in various areas of the US—many in small towns, where football is a major part of life—and some even involved NFL players.

Re-creations are minimal, and there is no narration, so detectives, journalists, and victims’ friends and family are the main voices for the story.

Even if you’re not a football fan, you’ll likely find most of the cases in the series engaging.

The Show Elements

Seasons: 4 (2022-)

Where to stream: HBO Max, Hulu, Discovery+

See also this list of true crime shows

✓ Police interviews
✘ Trial clips
✘ Narration
✓ Re-creations
✘ Experts
✓ Victims’ families and friends

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Show: Death by Fame

Fame leads to murder

Death by Fame
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About Death by Fame

Fame has its perks and its downsides, but no one expects murder to be part of celebrity. Death by Fame features stories of murders about famous, almost famous, and aspiring actors, musicians, models, fashion designers, reality TV stars, and filmmakers, either as victims or suspects.

Included in episodes are the stories of detectives who investigated the cases, family and friends of victims, and police interviews of suspects.

Some of the cases involve people as famous as Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay, and others only aspire to fame, but all had their lives and career paths changed by murder. The show might make any wannabe celebrity think twice.

The Show Elements

Seasons: 3 (2023-)

Where to stream: HBO Max, Hulu, Discovery+, Amazon Prime Video

More shows like Death by Fame: Hollywood & Crime, Murders of Hollywood, Hollywood Demons

See also this list of true crime shows

✓ Police interviews
✘ Trial clips
✘ Narration
✓ Re-creations
✘ Experts
✓ Victims’ families and friends

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Show: Murder by Medic

Murders by medical professionals

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About Murder by Medic

They’re supposed to save lives, but sometimes, they take lives. Murder by Medic details murders by healthcare professionals in the US, UK, Australia, and Germany, including doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, and paramedics, who killed patients, spouses, or others, many in healthcare or elder care settings.

Few episodes include victims’ loved ones and their stories. Instead, experts like criminologists, psychologists, retired detectives, and doctors such as Bryanna Fox, Joni Johnston, Donna Youngs, Sarah Jarvis, and Rod Demery are joined by investigators to describe the murders.

The show has a lot of overlap with Nurses Who Kill, but also includes high-profile cases like Jack Kevorkian, Christopher Duntsch, and Yolanda Saldivar.

The Show Elements

Seasons: 4 (2024-)

Where to stream: The Roku Channel, Tubi, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video

More shows like Murder by Medic: Nurses Who Kill, Deadly Dentists

See also this list of true crime shows

✓ Police interviews
✘ Trial clips
✘ Narration
✓ Re-creations
✓ Experts
✘ Victims’ families and friends

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Show: Impostors

Criminals who use fake personas to commit crime

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About Impostors

Impostors tells the stories of people pretending to be someone else, using fake names, professions, or disguises, in order to steal money from others. Even though these crimes are despicable and changed the lives of the victims, the show treats the cases with a lighter touch.

Some of the perpetrators appear in episodes, along with victims’ loved ones and investigators involved in the cases. The show is similar to American Greed in its focus on financial crimes, but has a semi-humorous tone, like Bizarre Murders.

The Show Elements

Seasons: 1 (2014)

Where to stream: Discovery+

More shows like Impostors: American Greed, The Big Swindle, The Con, Serial Swindlers

See also this list of true crime shows

✘ Police interviews
✘ Trial clips
✓ Narration
✓ Re-creations
✘ Experts
✓ Victims’ families and friends

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Show: Nightmare Next Door

Murders in small towns

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About Nightmare Next Door

No one expects their neighbor to be the victim of a murder, especially residents of small towns, where everything seems idyllic and protected from big-city crime. But these homicides do happen, and Nightmare Next Door tells their stories.

The show focuses on murder cases in small towns, and a few smaller cities. These cases are mostly stranger murders and often occur in the person’s home.

Early episodes incorporate brief glimpses into detectives’ or prosecutors’ backgrounds or hobbies, which do not connect to any aspect of the case and so seem oddly included. Perhaps the show was trying to make law enforcement seem like everyday people, but this attempt falls flat.

In general, the show is pretty low-quality and not all that interesting. Skip it unless you’re looking for emphasis on murders in small towns, or a show with a lot of seasons. Try Murder Comes to Town or Heartland Homicide, instead.

The Show Elements

Seasons: 10 (2011-2021)

Where to stream: Tubi, The Roku Channel, Discovery+, HBO Max, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video

More shows like Nightmare Next Door: Murder Comes to Town, Murder in the Heartland, Heartland Homicide

See also this list of true crime shows

✘ Police interviews
✘ Trial clips
✓ Narration
✓ Re-creations
✘ Experts
✓ Victims’ families and friends

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Show: Blood Relatives

Family members murder their relatives

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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.

Each episode begins with the tranquil and loving life of the family, then describes key problems that arose within it, the murder, the motives of various family members, and how the killer was finally caught.

Narrated by actress Brenda Strong, the show also features lots of re-creations and descriptions of events by family members, neighbors, friends, and detectives. There is some overlap of cases with shows like Dateline, 48 Hours, and Snapped.

The Show Elements

Seasons: 6 (2012-2018)

Where to stream: Discovery+, Max, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video

More shows like Blood Relatives: Fatal Family Feuds, Bad Blood, Evil Kin

See also this list of true crime shows

✘ Police interviews
✘ Trial clips
✓ Narration
✓ Re-creations
✘ Experts
✓ Victims’ families and friends

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Show: Dateline: The Smoking Gun

Dateline episodes that feature a “smoking gun”

Dateline: The Smoking Gun
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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 as an audio recording, video evidence, or a movie script.

If you like Dateline and haven’t seen all of the episodes, check it out. But you won’t get any new content in this series, disappointing for avid Dateline fans.

The Show Elements

Seasons: 1 (2024-)

Where to stream: Peacock

More shows like Dateline: The Smoking Gun: Dateline, Dateline: The Last Day

See also this list of true crime shows

✓ Police interviews
✓ Trial clips
✓ Narration
✘ Re-creations
✘ Experts
✓ Victims’ families and friends

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Show: Kiss of Death

Relationships end in murder

Kiss of Death
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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 stories of these relationships, the murders, and the investigations that followed. By focusing on first-person accounts, the show is more distinct in the true crime genre, and the lack of narration centers the stories on the victims’ experiences. However, at only one season, there are better shows about the same topic.

The Show Elements

Seasons: 1 (2017-2018)

Where to stream: Max, Hulu, Discovery+, Amazon Prime Video

More shows like Kiss of Death: Fatal Affairs, Fatal Attraction, Killer Relationship, Dateline, Meet, Marry, Murder, Deadly Affairs, Fatal Vows

See also this list of true crime shows

✘ Police interviews
✘ Trial clips
✘ Narration
✓ Re-creations
✘ Experts
✓ Victims’ families and friends

Latest Posts