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Show: Witness to Murder: Digital Evidence

Detectives use digital technology to solve murders

Witness to Murder: Digital Evidence
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About Witness to Murder: Digital Evidence

As technology evolves, so does evidence in murder cases, and detectives are taking advantage of text messages, GPS, app information, phone tracking, and other digital technology to find and convict killers. This type of evidence takes center stage in the cases in Witness to Murder: Digital Evidence.

The show focuses on how technology has changed the way investigators solve murders, particularly their use of technology to track suspects. Detectives in various murder cases share how they applied technology in creative and unusual ways to solve cases, illustrating how, ultimately, a digital footprint is often better than a real one.

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Seasons: 1 (2023-)

Where to stream: Tubi, Hulu, The Roku Channel

More shows like Witness to Murder: Digital Evidence: Caught in the Net, Web of Death

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

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Show: The Murder Tapes

Video footage helps solve murders

The Murder Tapes
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About The Murder Tapes

Few people realize just how much they are on camera throughout the day. At the grocery store, on the street, walking by a neighbor’s house. And the increasing use of surveillance and video cameras is helping detectives solve murders.

The Murder Tapes utilizes 911 calls, police body cams, police interviews, and surveillance camera footage to trace homicide investigations. Episodes focus on surveillance and video evidence, and the show provides insight into how investigators do their jobs, deal with witnesses and suspects, and collect this evidence to solve homicides.

The Murder Tapes has even more video evidence than See No Evil, so if you’re a fan of that show, check this one out.

The Show Elements

Seasons: 10 (2019-)

Where to stream: HBO Max, Hulu, Discovery+

More shows like The Murder Tapes: See No Evil, Lies, Crimes & Video, Body Cam

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

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Show: Fatal Family Feuds

Family feuds that end in murder

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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.

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Seasons: 2 (2023-)

Where to stream: Peacock, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video

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

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✓ 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

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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.

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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

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✓ 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

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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+

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✓ 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

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✓ 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: 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.

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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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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 a routine probation check, when police found photos and other evidence of several murders in his home. Among these was a list of ten unnamed women at specific locations.

Naso was tried and convicted for the murders of four women in 2013, and was sentenced to death. Others on the list remained unsolved. During his time on death row at San Quentin, he began to talk to Noguera about his crimes and confessed to over 20 murders.

Oxygen’s new multi-part series Death Row Confidential: Secrets of a Serial Killer follows Mains as he works with Noguera (who took copious notes about Naso’s confessions), along with detectives from the locations where Noguera claims Naso killed his victims, to solve these cold cases.

Death Row Confidential

Cameras follow Mains as he attempts to connect the names on the list to information in Noguera’s notes. The documentary also provides a perspective not often seen in true crime: that of an inmate helping to solve several murders. It includes Noguera’s calls from death row and interviews with victims’ family members, who share their difficult experiences not knowing what happened to their loved ones.

Why did Noguera want to help solve these cases? Did the confessions lead to any convictions? Watch Death Row Confidential to find out. The series premieres on Oxygen on September 13 at 9 pm and will be available for streaming on Peacock at a later date.

Show: Blood Relatives

Family members murder their relatives

Blood 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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