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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: Handsome Devils

Men who murder and steal from the women in their lives

About Handsome Devils

The title of Handsome Devils is a bit of a misnomer. Not all of the killers in the show are actually handsome, but they’re all devils in some way. These men have romantic relationships with their victims and either murder or embezzle money from them, or both.

In this fairly typical true crime show, surviving victims tell their harrowing stories, along with detectives and other victims’ family and friends. Add re-creations and police interviews, and it makes for the usual format.

The show is only 10 episodes, but many more of these types of cases exist. Find them on shows like Dateline, 20/20, or Casanova Killers.

True crime shows

The Show Elements

Seasons: 1 (2014-2015)

Where to stream: Discovery+, Amazon Prime Video

More shows like Handsome Devils: Casanova Killers, Dateline NBC, 20/20, American Greed

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 & Money

A true crime show built for Law & Order fans

About Blood & Money

From executive producer Dick Wolf, Blood & Money is a true-crime cousin of his Law & Order franchise, except it details actual murder cases. 

Featuring the classic clunk-clunk and font of Law & Order, the true crime show tells stories of murder cases based on greed. It also copies Law & Order’s split between the investigation and the prosecution, although not all episodes have trial clips (some just summarize the trials).

Some of the cases are well-known, such as the Menendez brothers, Ted Binion, and Robert Durst, and others have been covered elsewhere, such as the murders of Irene Silverman and Ron Rudin.

Fans of Law & Order will feel like the show is a comfy fit, while those looking for more of the money side of the crime might prefer American Greed.

True crime shows

The Show Elements

Seasons: 1 (2023-)

Where to stream: Peacock, Hulu

More shows like Blood & Money: American Greed, Claimed and Shamed, Dirty Money, Rich & Shameless, 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: American Greed

When greed becomes a criminal enterprise

About American Greed

If you want to fear the prospect of getting scammed by a no-good white-collar criminal, then American Greed is the true crime show for you.

Actor Stacy Keach lends his voice to tell high-profile and lesser-known stories of Ponzi schemes, embezzlement, fraud, identity theft, scams, art forgery, corporate crimes, murder for financial gain, and other white-collar crimes.

The show includes interviews with victims and sometimes the criminals themselves, who protest their innocence to the end, along with excerpts from court documents, wire taps, and secret recordings, information from the journalists covering the story, and some re-creations, which are sometimes presented as cartoons.

Each episode relates the story of one to two cases; notable ones include Lou Pearlman, Ray Nagin, Art Schlichter, Martin Shkreli, Paul Manafort, the Fyre Festival, Anna Delvey, NXIVM, Elizabeth Holmes, Dr. Death, Michael Avenatti, and the college admissions scandal. Highly recommended.

True crime shows

The Show Elements

Seasons: 15 (2007-)

Where to stream: Hulu and Peacock

More shows like American Greed: American Justice

See also this list of true crime shows

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

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