John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster
Jul 25, 2019 | IMDB 7
90 min Watch NowDocumentary
"Sam, could you do me a favor?" A seemingly simple request sparks the story that has now become part of America’s true crime hall of fame - the journey of a young lawyer, fresh from the Public Defender’s Office, whose first client in private practice turns out to be the most evil serial killer in our nation's history.
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Lockerbie: Our Story
Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror
The Killing Spree: Hunting Joanne Dennehy
The Real Fatal Attraction
An American Tragedy
Killing Michael Jackson
Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation
The Fourteenth Victim: Eliot Ness & the Torso Murders
Ruby Ridge
Untold: The Murder of Air McNair
Fred & Rose West: Love & Murder
Lucy Letby: Did She Really Do it?
The Amanda Knox Saga
H. H. Holmes: Original Evil
Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story
Confessions of a Serial Killer with Piers Morgan
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Remembering Bill
IMDB 0 | May , 2024
A documentary exploring the life of Bill Robinson, a football player who was murdered in 1950's Manchester, and the impact of his death had on his family.Murder: No Apparent Motive
IMDB 7 | Apr , 1984
This documentary about serial killers and FBI Behavioral Sciences profilers features interviews with Ed Kemper and Ted Bundy as well as crime victims and law enforcement officials. The film includes some dramatic recreations.Strong Island
IMDB 6.4 | Jan , 2017
Examining the violent death of the filmmaker’s brother and the judicial system that allowed his killer to go free, this documentary interrogates murderous fear and racialized perception, and re-imagines the wreckage in catastrophe’s wake, challenging us to change.Rainy in Glenageary
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2019
An experimental true crime documentary based on the unsolved murder of Raonaid Murray, a 17-year-old Irish girl, which achieved nationwide attention during the 2000s.Lockerbie: Our Story
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2025
On 21 December 1988, passenger jet Pan Am 103 was blown up over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing 259 on board and 11 on the ground. It was the UK’s largest crime scene and remains the deadliest terrorist attack on British soil. In this documentary, families and loved ones, most of whom are speaking for the first time, tell the deeply personal stories of six victims, each with their own hopes and dreams.Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror
IMDB 7.2 | May , 2022
Anonymous and exploitative, a network of online chat rooms ran rampant with sex crimes. The hunt to take down its operators required guts and tenacity.The Killing Spree: Hunting Joanne Dennehy
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2024
The definitive telling of the crimes of Joanne Dennehy, told by those closest to the case. Dennehy murdered three men, stabbed two more and is now serving life without parole.The Real Fatal Attraction
IMDB 7 | Jun , 2025
The extraordinary story of one woman's terrifying campaign to destroy the life and reputation of a young barrister, told by the victim himself, that describes the jaw-dropping levels of harassment that he was subjected to.An American Tragedy
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2018
Jeffrey Ferguson has been on death row for 26 years. Now he has just one hour left before he is put to death. Would you forgive the man who killed your daughter?Killing Michael Jackson
IMDB 7.8 | Oct , 2019
Interviews with the detectives involved in investigating the global star, Michael Jackson’s, death. They reveal fascinating insights into the events surrounding the day he died.Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation
IMDB 5.3 | Aug , 2007
Albert Fish, the horrific true story of elderly cannibal, sadomasochist, and serial killer, who lured children to their deaths in Depression-era New York City. Distorting biblical tales, Albert Fish takes the themes of pain, torture, atonement and suffering literally as he preys on victims to torture and sacrifice.The Fourteenth Victim: Eliot Ness & the Torso Murders
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2003
For Eliot Ness, Al Capone was old news in 1935. It was Ness’ stint as Safety Director of Cleveland, and his face off with Cleveland’s Torso Murderer, that was plainly the defining episode in his career. The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run tore through the headlines of Cleveland’s daily papers for years, and this serial killer -perhaps America’s first of its kind- left behind a bloody birthright that haunts the city still.Ruby Ridge
IMDB 6.6 | Feb , 2017
Shortly before dawn on August 21, 1992, six heavily armed U.S. marshals made their way up to the isolated mountaintop home of Randy and Vicki Weaver and their children on Ruby Ridge in Northern Idaho. Charged with selling two illegal sawed-off shotguns to an undercover agent, Weaver had failed to appear in court and law enforcement was tasked with bringing him in. For months, the Weavers had been holed up on their property with a cache of firearms, including automatic weapons. When the federal agents surveilling the property crossed paths with members of the family, a firefight broke out. The standoff that mesmerized the nation would leave Weaver injured, his wife and son dead, and some convinced that the federal government was out of control. Drawing upon eyewitness accounts, including interviews with Weaver’s daughter, Sara, and federal agents involved in the confrontation, Ruby Ridge is a riveting account of the event that helped give rise to the modern American militia movement.Untold: The Murder of Air McNair
IMDB 5.8 | Aug , 2024
Steve McNair was an NFL legend whose life was seemingly cut short by a crime of passion. Is there more to this chilling tragedy than meets the eye?Fred & Rose West: Love & Murder
IMDB 7 | Mar , 2024
When it comes to serial killers, there aren't many stories more chilling than the one of Fred and Rosemary West. The murderous duo raped, tortured and murdered at least a dozen young British girls between 1967 and 1987 in Gloucestershire, including several of their own daughters. Learn of how two of Britain's most notorious serial killers were able to get away with their crimes for so long, how they hid the victim's remains within the confines of their own home, and how they were eventually taken down.Lucy Letby: Did She Really Do it?
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2024
Unpacking and questioning the evidence used to convict neonatal nurse Lucy Letby.The Amanda Knox Saga
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2014
Amanda Knox served four years in an Italian prison for the murder of her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Perugia in 2007, always insisting on her innocence. In 2011, she was acquitted on the basis of DNA evidence but prosecutors successfully appealed and her acquittal was struck down. In 2014 she was again found guilty in absentia after a retrial and sentenced to 28 years and six months in jail. The saga came to and end when Italy's highest court overturned the convictions of Ms Knox and her former boyfriend, Italian student Raffaele Sollecito in March 2015. Known burglar Rudy Guede was arrested a short time later following the discovery of his bloodstained fingerprints on Kercher's possessions. He was later found guilty of murder in a fast-track trial and is currently (as of 2019) serving a 16-year prison sentence.H. H. Holmes: Original Evil
IMDB 2.2 | Sep , 2018
In the world of evil and deranged serial killers, there is no equal. Meet the Dark Lord of a murder castle who killed roughly 200 people in a self-made house of horrors who may have also been the notorious Jack the Ripper.Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story
IMDB 6 | Mar , 2011
In 2004, Cyntoia Brown was arrested for the murder of a 43-year-old man. Cyntoia was a prostitute and he was her client.Confessions of a Serial Killer with Piers Morgan
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2019
Piers Morgan sits down with Bernard Giles, a convicted serial killer who is willing to admit to his heinous crimes, and asks what motivated the man to commit those brutal acts.