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Seven gripping true crime documentaries on Netflix to watch Baby Reindeer

Netflix is ​​home to major television shows like Strange Things and Bridgerton, but it’s also where many people see the latest trending true crime documentary.

It’s not often you see the streaming platform’s Top 10 list for your country without a true crime documentary.




With many new choices appearing every month, it can be difficult to find one that is truly compelling.

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Here are our top seven true crime documentaries to watch on Netflix right now:

Amanda Knox

Featuring interviews with Amanda Knox, her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, Italian prosecutor Giuliano Mignini and Daily Mail reporter Nick Pisa, the documentary details the murder of Knox’s roommate Meredith Kercher and the subsequent investigation, trials and appeals.

Amanda Knox(Image: Netflix)

Her fame was enhanced by tabloid journalism. Knox was convicted of murder and spent four years in an Italian prison before being acquitted by the Supreme Court of Cassation. “I guess I’m trying to explain what it feels like to be wrongly convicted,” Knox explained in an interview. “To either be this horrible monster or to be this ordinary person who is vulnerable.”

American nightmare

American nightmare(Image: Netflix)

After a harrowing home invasion and kidnapping in 2015, a couple is accused of staging the ordeal when the woman reappears and haunts the couple with a new round of torture.

Girl in the picture

Girl in the picture(Image: Netflix)

The story revolves around a young girl known as Sharon Marshall, who was kidnapped by a federal fugitive Franklin Delano Floyd and then raised as his daughter. Over the next two decades, she was sexually assaulted by Floyd, forced to marry him, and ultimately died in a suspicious accident in 1990. The film follows the shocking events that followed, and the years-long efforts of Birkbeck, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and the FBI to uncover her true identity

Lover, stalker, murderer

Lover, stalker, murderer(Image: Netflix)

In this exciting documentary, a mechanic tries online dating for the first time and meets a woman who takes romantic obsession to the extreme.

Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal

Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal(Image: Netflix)

The Murdaughs are a prominent family in South Carolina until a fatal boating accident marks the beginning of their legacy; Maggie Murdaugh and son Paul are later found murdered, exposing a century of corruption, power and cover-up.

What Jennifer did

What Jennifer did(Image: Netflix)

When Jennifer Pan calls 911 to report that her parents have been shot, she becomes the center of a fascinating criminal case.

Missing: the Lucie Blackman case

Missing: the Lucie Blackman case(Image: Netflix)

July 1, 2000. British, 21-year-old Lucie Blackman goes missing in Tokyo, sparking an international investigation – and an unyielding quest for justice.