94 of the best true crime documentaries on Netflix, available in 2025

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

A journalist is investigating the case of a woman who was charged with falsely reporting a rape when she notices a worrying link between victims and the authorities.

Length: Five episodes, 50 - 60 minutes each

Detectives and prosecutors revisit their most challenging homicide cases in this chilling true-crime docuseries from the creator of Law & Order.

Length: Four episodes, between 40 and 70 minutes each

Journalist Danny Casolaro is killed under mysterious circumstances while researching an alleged conspiracy called The Octopus, which had links to spy software theft, unsolved murders and more.

Length: 3 episodes, 54 minutes each

When a heavily pregnant Laci Peterson went missing from her family home on Christmas Eve in 2002, her family launched a campaign to find her. And as her husband's Scott's increasingly strange behaviour comes under the microscope, his double life is revealed.

Length: 3 episodes, an hour each

On Boxing Day 1996, John and Patsy Ramsey discovered their six year old daughter had gone missing - and a ransom note asking for $118,000 had been left in her place. When she was found murdered, suspicions turned on her parents - and the case remains unsolved 30 years later.

Length: 2 episodes, 78 minutes each

Cathy was just a teenager when she gave birth to a girl in 1974, and was pressured into giving her up for adoption. In 1989, her daughter went missing, and Cathy started her lifelong search to piece together what happened, connecting with people on Facebook in an attempt to uncover the truth.

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

A modern day Bonnie & Clyde. Vicky was the assistant director of operations at the Lauderdale County Detention Center when she announced her retirement out of the blue. On her last day, she helped inmate Casey escape from prison, and the pair went on the run.

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

In 2010, Kirat Assi started talking to Bobby on Facebook, sharing thousands of messages over a decade. When their friendship turned romantic, she tried to meet him in person - and what she discovered was worse than anything she could have ever imagined.

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

In 1996, two brothers Erik and Lyle were found guilty of shooting and murdering their parents, Jose and Kitty, at home in 1989. The documentary details how they were victims of sexual abuse at the hands of their father growing up, and digs into the trial in granular detail.

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

The true story of a Canadian woman who hired hit men to kill her parents, piecing together incriminating text messages, police footage and never seen before interviews.

Length: 40 minutes

A documentary about an innocent man, Juan Catalan, who was arrested for the murder of a teenage girl that he did not commit, and how he used footage from a popular TV show to prove his innocence.

Length: 3 episodes, 52 - 62 minutes each

A tragic look at the terrorist attack that took place during the Boston Marathon in 2013, piecing together archive footage with exclusive interviews and reenactments to unpick how two brothers tore a city to pieces.

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

A documentary based on Centra Tech, the company set up by three men who used the cryptocurrency market to scam millions from investors and bankroll lavish lifestyles.

Length: 3 episodes, 45 minutes each

A woman is compared to the real life Gone Girl when she's kidnapped via home invasion in 2105, with her boyfriend being accused of fabricating her story.

Length: 2 episodes, 50 minutes each

Told from the perspective of three separate women, whose lives were changed forever when a prolific cyberstalker infiltrated their profiles.

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

When a mechanic tries his hand at online dating for the first time, his world is turned upside down by a woman who quickly becomes obsessed.

Length: 4 episodes, 56 minutes each

From the same filmmakers who made Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich, comes this documentary which delves into his victim's stories, and examines how convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein used his wealth and power to carry out his abuses.

Length: 1 hour 27 minute

The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker tells the story of Kai, a homeless man, who went viral in early 2013 for saving a woman's life by attacking the woman's assailant using a hatchet and "smashing" him around the head with it. Kai spoke with a local news team shortly after the event and the interview went viral, instantly making him a celebrity. Kai appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel show and Justin Bieber's team reached out to him.

However, after just a few months in the spotlight, he was arrested for the murder of Joseph Galfy.