What true crime is watching this week.

Death of Mica Miller (Myrtle Beach, SC, 2024)

3-part doc retraces Mica Miller's toxic marriage and the disputed circumstances of her death; #1 Netflix US TV Aug 29.

Manson Family / Tate-LaBianca murders (1969)

Unreleased Manson prison recordings anchor a look at his rise and the 1969 murders; 3.1M views Aug 17-23.

University of Idaho murders / Bryan Kohberger (2022)

Victim-first 3-parter on the Moscow, Idaho killings; hit #1 worldwide after its July 29 debut.

Anthony Robinson, the Virginia 'Shopping Cart Killer'

Dramatization of a woman who dated the future killer; #1 movie on Netflix US the week of Aug 17.

Lesser-known US serial killers (anthology)

Season 2 (from Aug 9) profiles obscure American serial murderers with investigators and survivors.

Colorado Springs police officer's secret double life

Season 4 of the podcast-based Betrayal franchise (Aug 4) exposes a cop who exploited his badge for a hidden life.

Death of John O'Keefe / Karen Read trials (2022-25)

Katie Cassidy plays Karen Read in a docudrama about the O'Keefe death and the media-saturated trials.

Unsolved murders and missing-persons cases (anthology)

Abduction survivor Kara Robinson Chamberlain investigates cold cases; premiered Aug 10.

Death of Marilyn Monroe (1962)

TMZ special re-examines Monroe's death scene with a Golden State Killer investigator; Hulu top 10 Aug 24.

Charles Manson / Manson Family

A woman learns Manson is her grandfather and digs into the family history; Hulu's companion to the Netflix doc.

FBI Behavioral Science Unit; Kemper, BTK, Manson

Fincher's chilly drama about the FBI agents who invented criminal profiling by interviewing serial killers.

Central Park Five wrongful convictions (1989)

Ava DuVernay's four-part account of five Harlem teens railroaded for the Central Park jogger attack.

Robert Durst; Kathie Durst, Susan Berman, Morris Black

The hot-mic 'killed them all' finale made this the genre's landmark; Part Two followed Durst's 2021 conviction.

Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey; murder of Teresa Halbach

The binge that launched streaming true crime: an exoneree charged again, and a confession that split the country.

O.J. Simpson murder trial (1994-95)

Emmy-sweeping dramatization of the trial of the century, from Bronco chase to verdict.

Marc O'Leary serial rapes; Marie Adler wrongly charged

A teen is charged with lying about her rape while two detectives hunt the man who did it.

Rajneeshpuram; 1984 Oregon bioterror attack

A guru's commune takes over an Oregon town, then turns to poisonings, wiretaps and plots.

Ted Kaczynski / Unabomber investigation

FBI profiler Jim Fitzgerald uses forensic linguistics to unmask the Unabomber.

Jeffrey Dahmer murders (1978-91)

Evan Peters' Dahmer became one of Netflix's most-watched series ever, told partly through the neighbors who were ignored.

Unsolved 1969 murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik

Former students investigate a nun's murder and the clerical abuse she may have been about to expose.

Luka Magnotta; murder of Jun Lin (2012)

Amateur online sleuths track a kitten-killer who escalates to murder.

Michael Peterson; death of Kathleen Peterson (2001)

De Lestrade's 13-episode fly-on-the-wall of the Peterson defense, the template for modern true crime.

Ted Bundy murders (1974-78)

Death-row audio interviews frame Bundy's crimes, escapes and trial; launched the franchise now on Manson.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard; murder of Dee Dee Blanchard (2015)

Joey King and Patricia Arquette in the Munchausen-by-proxy case that ended in matricide.

Lafferty brothers; murders of Brenda and Erica Lafferty (1984)

Andrew Garfield's detective probes a fundamentalist Mormon double murder, from Krakauer's book.

Erie 'pizza bomber' heist; Brian Wells (2003)

A pizza deliveryman with a bomb collar robs a bank, and the plot behind it gets stranger.

Golden State Killer / Joseph DeAngelo

Michelle McNamara's obsessive hunt for the Golden State Killer, finished after her death as DeAngelo was caught.

Joe Exotic murder-for-hire plot against Carole Baskin

The lockdown phenomenon: big cats, feuds and a murder-for-hire conviction.

Richard Ramirez murders (1984-85)

The detectives who caught Ramirez recount the terror of the 1985 Los Angeles summer.

NXIVM / Keith Raniere sex-trafficking case

Insiders document their escape from NXIVM and the case that put Raniere away for 120 years.

Henry Hill and the Lucchese crew; 1978 Lufthansa heist

Scorsese's mob epic from Pileggi's 'Wiseguy', built on Hill's own account.

Murder of Andrew Bagby (2001) and its aftermath

A friend's tribute to a murdered doctor turns into one of the most devastating documentaries ever made.

Hwaseong serial murders, South Korea (1986-91)

Bong Joon-ho's rural detectives flail at Korea's first serial killer case, unsolved until 2019.

Boston Globe's 2002 exposé of clergy abuse cover-up

Best Picture winner about the reporters who exposed systemic child abuse in the Boston archdiocese.

Frank Abagnale Jr. check fraud and impostures

Spielberg's caper about a teen forger posing as pilot, doctor and lawyer, and the agent chasing him.

West Memphis Three (1993)

The doc that made three Arkansas teens a cause, later freed after 18 years; two sequels followed.

Zodiac Killer, Northern California (1968-69)

Fincher's procedural about obsession with an unsolved case, told through cartoonist Robert Graysmith.

John Wojtowicz's 1972 Brooklyn bank robbery

Pacino's botched heist becomes a media circus; from a real Chase branch standoff.

Randall Dale Adams; murder of Dallas officer Robert Wood

Errol Morris's reenactment-driven doc got an innocent man off death row and reinvented the genre.

Clutter family murders, Holcomb, Kansas (1959)

Capote's nonfiction novel filmed in the actual Clutter house, with Robert Blake as Perry Smith.

Barrow Gang robberies and killings (1932-34)

The New Hollywood landmark that mythologized the Depression-era outlaw couple.

Wineville Chicken Coop murders; Christine Collins (1928)

Eastwood's drama of a mother handed the wrong boy by a corrupt LAPD, tied to Gordon Northcott's murders.

Frédéric Bourdin impersonating Nicholas Barclay (1997)

A French con man convinces a Texas family he is their missing son; the questions cut both ways.

1994 attack on Nancy Kerrigan / Tonya Harding

Mockumentary-style biopic of Harding and the botched plot that ended her skating career.

1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing

The security guard who found the bomb, then became the FBI's and media's suspect.

Murder of Brandon Teena, Nebraska (1993)

Hilary Swank's Oscar-winning turn as a trans man murdered after being outed in Falls City.

Friedman child-abuse prosecutions, Great Neck, NY (1987-88)

Home videos of a family imploding under abuse charges leave guilt unresolved.

Aileen Wuornos murders, Florida (1989-90)

Charlize Theron's Oscar-winning transformation into the highway serial killer.

John du Pont's murder of wrestler Dave Schultz (1996)

Steve Carell as the heir whose wrestling patronage ends in murder.

2004 Transylvania University rare-book heist

Hybrid doc-drama where the real thieves interrupt the reenactment of their Audubon heist.