It’s time as soon as once more for our month-to-month True Crime verify in, pulling collectively the entire new Netflix titles from 2025. This month, we’re sharing upcoming and up to date releases for September. Take a look at the entire listing beneath, and keep secure on the market True Crime followers!
This three-episode sequence explores the scandal of a South-African celeb physician and a murder-rapist who faked his personal demise in an effort to escape from jail. Dr. Nandipha Magudumana and Thabo Bester had been ultimately arrested after showing in public collectively after over a 12 months on the run, however this true crime deal with will take you thru all of the stunning particulars from begin to end, forward of an enchantment trial set for this month.
The Tinder Swindler‘s Cecilie Fjellhøy is again on Netflix with a brand new six-part sequence tackling romance-fraud. Joined by personal investigator Brianne Joseph, the 2 girls are serving to comparable victims expose on-line con artists, together with “Selfie Scammer” Todd Dean. Masking the monetary, authorized, and psychological features at play, the sequence goals to boost consciousness so ways may be acknowledged and averted sooner or later.
Fiction turns into actuality when two Michigan teenagers obtain lewd and threatening texts from a blocked quantity. However that is no Gossip Lady or Fairly Little Liars, and the FBI ultimately turns into concerned. Promotional supplies promise stunning twists, and a perpetrator who could also be nearer to the victims than anybody anticipated.
The producers of The Tinder Swindler and Don’t F**ok With Cats are again, and diving into the 2019 occasions that made a number of headlines when Mighty Geese and Empire actor, Jussie Smollett claimed to be a sufferer of a hate crime in Chicago involving a noose, however was later discovered to have orchestrated the occasions with two accomplices. A slew of regulation fits, countersuits, and appeals adopted, making this popular culture landmark fertile floor for an in depth documentary.
This docuseries is a follow-up to 2023’s Within the Identify of God: A Holy Betrayal which lined the JMS cult/intercourse abuse scandal, which Director Cho Seong-hyun related to the South Korean police pressure, which was audited and investigated for obstructing the investigation in 2024. New episodes dive into different chapters of nationwide historical past, such because the Busan Brother’s dwelling, Chijon Household kidnapping, and prison negligence within the Sampoong division retailer collapse discover the broadscale trauma left by these newsworthy occasions.
This documentary slash visible album is the work of rapper James “JJ’88” Jacobs, who was incarcerated at 15 for homicide, and director Contessa Gayles, who combines telephone calls with jail footage to discover Jacobs’ private expertise with incarceration, loss, and seek for freedom. Earlier than his launch in 2022 after serving 18 years, he has an encounter along with his brother’s killer that transforms him spiritually. Not your typical investigative type movie, that is nonetheless a special approach on true crime price watching.
The 2003 Antwerp diamond heist, perpetrated by a gaggle often known as “The College of Turin” made historical past when tons of of hundreds of thousands price of gems had been taken from a supposedly impenetrable vault (it’s giving Titanic vibes) with none pressure or violence concerned. When you’re within the temper for a real-life Ocean’s Eleven, this one is for you, and a lot of the diamonds are nonetheless lacking to at the present time, which solely provides to the attract.
Re-examining the 1970’s Son of Sam, also called “.44 Caliber Killer”, murders, this documentary consists of never-before-heard interviews recorded with David Berkowitz in 1980 on the Attica Correctional Facility. Detectives, survivors, journalists, and prison profilers contribute to the current day commentary on this case that has captivated us for over half a century.
A 23 year-old lady disappears on a cruise together with her household in 1998 and stays unfound to at the present time, regardless of a number of claims of sightings in Curaçao, Barbardos, and San Francisco. This 12 months, in July podcast host Ethan Klein provided a $1M reward for any data that results in her secure return. Dissect the entire theories from foul play to intercourse trafficking with this in-depth documentary.
This two half sequence dives into the 2008 homicide of Ana Páez in Barcelona, and in what was nicknamed “The Close to Excellent Crime” her pal María Ángeles Molina assumes her identification in an effort to commit fraud for monetary acquire. Molina’s husband mysteriously died in 1996, and the documentary pokes holes in lingering questions surrounding that case as effectively.
This new documentary in regards to the unsolved homicide of trans icon Venus Xtravaganza, born Venus Pellagatti, and identified for the 1990 movie Paris Is Burning, seeks justice by means of the advocation to reopen her chilly case. With participation from Venus’ three organic brothers, in addition to her chosen household from the ballroom group, lead NYPD to reopen their investigation, resulting in new proof, and a confession that complicates understanding of the case.
When you really feel such as you’ve exhausted the entire true crime circumstances from the U.S. this three-part sequence on Argentina’s most infamous unsolved homicide is ideal on your subsequent watch. The brutal killing that drew media spectacle and scrutiny, allegations of police misconduct, and the acquittal of each Dalmasso’s husband and son, receives a brand new lead with DNA proof arriving in 2024, 18 years after the crime, and out of doors of the nation’s statute of limitations.
This three-part docuseries tackles the 1982 chilly case that killed seven within the Chicagoland space after bottles of Additional Energy Tylenol had been poisoned with cyanide. The randomness of the deaths precipitated wide-spread panic that led to a nationwide recall and challenged native and federal regulation enforcement. Whereas one suspect, James William Lewis, was linked to a threatening letter, there was in the end inadequate proof to cost him with the crime. The case has been reopened a number of occasions through the years, however nobody was ever charged, nevertheless, the lasting affect of tamper evident seals on the pharmaceutical trade is a direct results of the tragic case.
This 12 months marks the thirtieth anniversary of this lethal home terror assault that killed 168 and injured over 600 individuals, and this movie revisits tragic occasions of Timothy McVeigh’s assault by means of a contemporary lens. Utilizing a truck bomb crammed with ammonium nitrate and gas oil, and concentrating on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Constructing in Oklahoma Metropolis, McVeigh harbored deeply radical anti-government sentiments following his service within the Gulf Battle. The movie attracts parallels to up to date actions, consists of never-before-seen footage, and highlights the affect the occasion had on regulation enforcement and surveillance.
This documentary covers the 2015 demise of Irish widow Jason Corbett, who was bludgeoned to demise with a baseball bat and a concrete paver after relocating to North Carolina. His remarriage to former nanny, Molly, sparks investigation into her and her father, who declare Jason had been bodily abusive. Utilizing a mixture of interviews, courtroom reconstruction, and media protection, filmmakers are capable of assemble a narrative that has obtained reward for it’s sensitivity, particularly in the direction of Jason’s youngsters and household.
This three half docuseries covers the famed “Home of Horrors” that was dwelling to one of many UK’s most infamous serial killer {couples}. Fred and Rose West tortured, abused, and murdered at the least twelve younger girls and women between 1967 and 1987, and their very own daughter Heather was among the many victims, lots of whom had been buried within the couple’s yard. Regardless of being an older case, the docuseries claims never-before-seen footage, in addition to interviews with members of the family of victims who’ve chosen to talk publicly for the primary time.
True crime aficionados will instantly acknowledge this story from the widespread nationwide information protection the disappearance of the New York teen throughout a cross-country highway journey together with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, whose evasion of regulation enforcement led to a different high-profile search. Critics reward the chronological order of this documentary, which serves to refresh and reframe the entire media protection. Interviews with Petito’s mother and father and nuance with the position of social media and home violence performed within the case will give viewers a extra in depth understanding of occasions.
Masking a sequence of murders spanning nearly 20 years, from 1993 – 2011, this docuseries dives into the Gilgo Seashore serial killings and is advised from the angle of the victims and their family and friends. The case originated as a seek for Shannan Gilbert following her disappearance from a gated group in 2010.
The search led regulation enforcement to find the stays of 4 victims who got here to be often known as “The Gilgo 4”, whereas Gilberts stays and 5 others the place situated later in 2011. It’s a wild case that led to the arrest of a Manhattan architect, when investigators relied not on a smoking gun, however a discarded pizza crust to piece collectively the occasions of the murders.
For true crime junkies, the Manson murders is akin to the Marvel or DC Universe. It’s the present that retains on giving, by constantly inspiring new content material. This documentary adapts 2019’s CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret Historical past of the Sixties written by Tom O’Neill with Dan Piepenbring. Combined evaluations reward the movie for it’s evaluation of the crime’s lasting cultural affect, however criticize the time it spends following purple herrings with out concrete conclusions.
This true crime sequence lined the kidnapping of Denise Huskins in 2015, which police and FBI accused her of staging as a hoax in collaboration together with her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn. Dubbed “the true Gone Lady” by the media, this docuseries does an excellent job of overlaying the main points of the case in a succinct three-episode arc that presents a a lot happier ending than we are able to usually anticipate from this style. A must-watch for its evaluation of the position media performs in excessive profile circumstances.
Superstar chef and TV decide Graham Hornigold had lived with out figuring out who or the place his mom was his whole grownup life till a lady by the title of Dionne reaches out claiming to be her, in addition to the illegitimate youngster of the previous Sultan of Brunei. She weaves astonishing webs of deception that con Hornigold and others out of tons of of 1000’s of kilos, and places an unlimited pressure on his marriage and the beginning of his first youngster. Filled with champagne, caviar, and Swiss bankers, this movie is completely paced for a fast true crime repair.
This three-episode docuseries covers YouTube star Piper Rockelle, her manager-mother Tiffany Smith, and a cohort of different youngster collaborators they recruited, analyzing the methods social media is considerably of an unregulated “Wild West” in the case of youngster leisure and exploitation. Culminating in an high-profile lawsuit introduced towards Smith and her boyfriend in violation of kid labor legal guidelines and sexually inappropriate conduct, it exposes the vulnerabilities minors face by the hands of coercive caretakers who view them as a method to producing consideration, income, and “content material”.
This characteristic size thrilled relies on the true occasions of a 2022 hold-up of an Apple retailer in Amsterdam during which a gunman held a person hostage for 5 hours. It’s a criminal offense that’s near dwelling for director Bobby Boermans, actually, who lives close to the precise retailer the place the occasions passed off. Taking a special method to true-crime storytelling, the movie reimagines and recreates the precise scenes and occasions, the place a docuseries would possibly solely summarize. A must-watch for anybody who’s on the lookout for that firsthand expertise as a viewer.
