Category: Shows

Show: Sin City Murders

Murder cases in the shadow of the Las Vegas Strip

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About Sin City Murders

Las Vegas is known for its bright lights, nightlife, gambling, and sinful fun, but murders happen in the famous city, too. Sin City Murders features stories about homicides that occurred beneath the bright lights of the Las Vegas Strip. Instead of focusing on the other sins of the city, the sin at play in these episodes is murder.

The homicides revolve around jobs particular to the Las Vegas nightlife, as well as local celebrities, such as hip hop artists, lounge musicians, showgirls, influencers, and poker players. The show includes other cases, such as an armored car heist and murder.

Shots of the city are interspersed with interviews with detectives, victims’ loved ones, and reporters, setting the scene for the sins that occurred.

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Seasons: 1 (2024-)

Where to stream: Peacock, Hulu

More shows like Sin City Murders: Las Vegas Law, Las Vegas Jailhouse, Jail: Las Vegas

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: Where Murder Lies

Lies, murder, and eventually, the truth

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About Where Murder Lies

Where Murder Lies focuses on cases where the murderer is desperate to cover up a lie, such as an affair, hidden identity, money issue, or other lie—and desperate enough to murder because of it.

This true crime show also illustrates the lies that infiltrate a murder case as the perpetrator tries to mask their crime. Some of these lies are uncovered during police interviews, others during investigations, and the detectives on the show describe how they slowly uncovered the false statements and mistruths in a perpetrator’s story. The detectives are joined by victim’s loved ones, who speak for themselves, without the need for narration.

Where Murder Lies follows the lies to their eventual end: The truth is uncovered, and the killer or killers revealed.

The Show Elements

Seasons: 2 (2021-2023)

Where to stream: Discovery+

More shows like Where Murder Lies: Dirty Little Lies, The Lies That Bind

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: Unraveled

Lives unravel to the point of murder

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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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Show: Snapped: She Made Me Do It

Women manipulate men into murder

Snapped: She Made Me Do It
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About Snapped: She Made Me Do It

Joining the Snapped and Snapped: Killer Couples family is Snapped: She Made Me Do It. In this series, women are the masterminds who solicit men to help them commit murder, convincing these men to help them kill not only the women’s spouses, but sometimes their parents or other victims.

Some cases bring up the question of who really orchestrated the murder: Did these women “make” others do their dirty deeds, manipulating them to do so, or were the men the ones truly responsible? Of course, these co-perpetrators try to place the blame on the women and absolve themselves of any guilt.

Not as compelling as Snapped and Killer Couples, the focus on women—and their wily ways when it comes to murder—still makes Snapped: She Made Me Do It an interesting watch.

The Show Elements

Seasons: 2 (2015-2017)

Where to stream: Peacock

More shows like Snapped: She Made Me Do It: Snapped, Snapped: Killer Couples, Deadly Women, Seduced to Slay

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: Fatal Attraction

Relationships turn deadly

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About Fatal Attraction

No one imagines that their relationship could go so wrong that it ends in murder. In Fatal Attraction, that’s exactly what happens. This true crime show focuses on murders related to relationship ills like cheating, jealousy, unrequited love, and love triangles, situations where one of the people involved turns to murder.

The show emphasizes cases involving members of the African American community, and victims’ loved ones are joined by detectives, reporters, and legal analysts to tell the story of each case. This long-running show fills a gap in the true crime genre by covering many murders not documented on other shows.

The Show Elements

Seasons: 16 (2013-)

Where to stream: Peacock, Tubi

More shows like Fatal Attraction: Dateline, Killer Relationship, Fatal Affairs, Deadly Affairs, Deadly Affairs: Betrayed by Love, Meet, Marry, Murder, Vengeance: Killer Lovers, Sex, Lies & Murder

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: Deadly Influence: The Social Media Murders

The dark side of social media

Deadly Influence: The Social Media Murders
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About Deadly Influence: The Social Media Murders

Social media has its dark side, and Deadly Influence: The Social Media Murders reveals its darkest parts, as influencers and others prominent on social media sites like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube become the victims, or the perpetrators, of murder.

Involving killers ranging from obsessed incels to jealous husbands, the cases in this show illustrate how lives lived online can bring out the worst in people. The show sucks you in with plenty of photos and videos from social media pages, offering a glimpse into the victim’s or killer’s life and creating a personal connection to them, just as they strove to connect with their followers before the murder.

It’s no surprise in an era of increasing social media presence that murders related to influencers would become its own sub-genre. If you liked Web of Lies or The TikTok Star Murders, check out Deadly Influence.

The Show Elements

Seasons: 1 (2024-)

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

More shows like Deadly Influence: Web of Lies, The TikTok Star Murders, #killerpost, Murder on the Internet

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: Fatal Affairs

Love triangles turn deadly

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About Fatal Affairs

Someone in a couple is having an affair. Not unusual, but in these forbidden stories, three’s a crowd turns to murder.

Fatal Affairs focuses on the three people in a love triangle as the main players in homicides. The mystery in its episodes is not just who the killer is, but who the victim is. Often, jealousy is involved, as so often happens with affairs. Or maybe someone needs to get rid of an annoying problem the affair has created in their life, such as a surprise pregnancy or threats of their lover revealing the affair to their spouse. Inexplicably, these cheaters decide murder is the answer.

Fatal Affairs takes the-spouse-did-it stories to the next level, offering a more complex equation: Is the killer the spouse, the girlfriend or boyfriend, or the person being cheated on? The answer depends on the tangled story of each case, and episodes unravel each murder, incorporating commentary by psychologists on the motivations behind the affairs and murders. If you like stories of love gone wrong, check out the show.

The Show Elements

Seasons: 1 (2024-)

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

More shows like Fatal Affairs: Dateline, Killer Relationship, Deadly Affairs, Deadly Affairs: Betrayed by Love, Meet, Marry, Murder, Vengeance: Killer Lovers, Sex, Lies & Murder

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: Evil Lives Here: Shadows of Death

First-person stories from murder victims’ loved ones and others

Evil Lives Here: Shadows of Death
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About Evil Lives Here: Shadows of Death

Evil Lives Here: Shadows of Death highlights the impact of a murder on the lives of three or four people involved in a case, including victims’ loved ones, detectives, and sometimes a family member or friend of the killer.

Part of the Evil Lives Here franchise, the show differs from the original Evil Lives Here and its cousin Evil Lives Here: The Killer Speaks by spotlighting the stories of victims’ friends and family members and only sometimes including the voice of someone who lived with a killer, as in the other two shows.

The series is more like a conventional true crime show due to its heavier emphasis on the investigation and story of the murder itself, rather than the hints of evil in the killer or the events that led up to the homicide, like Evil Lives Here. The storytelling style is similar to Evil Lives Here but not in its focus on the perpetrator of the crime.

The Show Elements

Seasons: 5 (2020-)

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

More shows like Evil Lives Here: Shadows of Death: Evil Lives Here, Evil Lives Here: The Killer Speaks

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: Shadow of Doubt

Doubt clouds these murder cases

Shadow of Doubt
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About Shadow of Doubt

Shadow of Doubt looks at homicide cases where there is some kind of doubt or question about a suspect, conviction, or other part of a murder investigation, such as cases involving false confessions, questions about the true shooter in a murder involving multiple perpetrators, and whether a person’s death was actually a suicide.

Episodes include detectives and victims’ friends and families, who discuss the case and its investigation, as well as re-creations, like in many other true crime shows. The difference with Shadow of Doubt is the inclusion of one of the suspects in most episodes, who casts doubt on their role in the murder, sometimes with little believability. Episodes don’t reveal the suspect’s role in the murder until the end.

It’s an intriguing premise, but doesn’t really make the show unique from others.

The Show Elements

Seasons: 2 (2016-2018)

Where to stream: Discovery+, Amazon Prime Video

More shows like Shadow of Doubt: Did He Do It?

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 Among Friends

Friends become frenemies, with deadly consequences

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About Murder Among Friends

Sometimes friends aren’t friends at all and the last person to discover this sad fact is the victim of a murder. So is the premise of Murder Among Friends, which introduces viewers to a group of friends involved in the homicide of one of their own.

The motives for these murders range from jealousy, to revenge, to evil desires, and the show emphasizes salacious and creepy stories, such as those involving sex, cults, or vampirism. Episodes mostly focus on friend groups in their teens and twenties, those more likely to fall prey to groupthink.

Complete with narration, police interviews, the testimony of victims’ loved ones, and re-creations, the show is pretty standard fare for the true crime genre, with the only unique aspect being its focus on murders that happened in friend groups. If frenemies are what you’re looking for, check out Murder Among Friends.

The Show Elements

Seasons: 2 (2016-2018)

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

More shows like Murder Among Friends: Mean Girl Murders, Frenemies: Loyalty Turned Lethal, I Killed My BFF

See also this list of true crime shows

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

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