True crime documentaries on Netflix come with the kind of real-life drama so gripping that for that hour or so, you forget everything else in life. It’s for this reason that we can’t. Get. Enough. And we’re not the only ones.
We never get tired of discovering how disturbingly screwed up the human race is – the fact that real-life people have committed some of these crimes is truly disturbing but, in some weird way, compelling. I mean, take, for example, Charles Cullen, a former ICU nurse who killed patients while working in various hospitals and nursing homes before being caught. The investigation that led to his arrest is told in Capturing the Killer Nurse.
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Then there are those bizarre real-life stories that are just too difficult to wrap our heads around. Case in point, the doc Girl in the Picture, which viewers have labelled “The most frightening thing they’ve ever seen”, and Evil Genius: The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist, which looks at the infamous moment a pizza delivery guy walked in to rob a bank with a bomb tied around his neck…
So, have you got your notepad at the ready and detective hat on? Great. Because when it comes to the murky world of true crime docs, nothing is ever what it seems. From stories that tap into secret lives, dangerous roommates, and tales of millennial scamming and murder, these are the best true crime documentaries to watch on Netflix right now.