Netflix True Crime

entertainment

Toni Collette is an Emmy-winning Australian actress who joined the Netflix series The Staircase in 2022 as Dorothy 'Dee' Dillon, the wife of murdered North Carolina businessman...

documentary

The Bakersfield Three documentary on Netflix examines the 2010 murder of Shirley Duguay in Bakersfield, California, and the criminal trial that followed. This evergreen explaine...

true crime analysis

This Netflix film examines the Elisabeth Fritzl case, focusing on the facts of the imprisonment, the discovery in 2008, the trial that followed, and the long term impact on the...

true-crime-documentaries

Staircase on Netflix refers to a distinctive true crime documentary miniseries that examines a decades-long murder case in rural Kentucky through intimate interviews and atmosph...

true crime

Ed Gein was an American murderer and body snatcher whose crimes in rural Wisconsin shocked the 1950s and seeded enduring horror archetypes. This evergreen profile explains what...

true crime

Ed Gein is often invoked as shorthand for horror, yet the real story is more complicated and far less cinematic than many Netflix depictions suggest. This evergreen explainer fo...

true crime

John Wayne Gacy on Netflix examines the case of the notorious Chicago serial offender through archival materials, courtroom records, and expert context. The series outlines Gacy...

Celebrity Profiles

The Watts family documentary on Netflix examines the 2018 death of Sharen Wilson Watts, a Kansas woman killed by her husband, and the questions that followed about warning signs...