The true crime show The Breakthrough is one of the most popular shows on Netflix right now. Here's why you should binge it.

The drama tells the story of a cold case that went unsolved for 16 years and the arduous journey to finding the killer.

In 2024, there was no shortage of excellent true crime series and documentaries streaming across the platforms. Some offered new perspectives on old, well-worn cases we all thought we knew ...

Based on a shocking true story, the gripping drama finds a mother and her three children held captive by a family friend ...

However, Banner says he's also concerned that true crime's use of certain tropes to tell compelling narratives affects perceptions of the criminal justice system. He says the genre focuses on ...

Netflix unveiled the "American Murder: Laci Peterson" true-crime docuseries in August, giving new perspective to the case with interviews from Laci's mother, Sharon Rocha, and Peterson's former ...

We visit that, too. A 2024 poll from YouGov showed that 57% of United States adults consume true-crime content and that 5% do so every day. Podcasts, documentaries and streaming series are wildly ...

HBO has revolutionized the crime drama genre with iconic series like The Wire and The Sopranos. These productions have not ...

David Lynch's iconic supernatural mystery series 'Twin Peaks' was based on a real murder of a young woman New York state from ...

In the new series of Lucy Worsley Investigates (BBC Two), she presents the thesis that the Ripper murders were the foundation stone of today’s true crime obsession. Victorian newspaper barons ...

Today, true crime is a multi-billion pound industry that is unavoidable when searching podcast charts, streamer top 10s, or picking up a book to devour. There is an ever-growing obsession with ...