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True Crime

How to Rob a Bank
The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker
Our Father
A Life Too Short: The Isabella Nardoni Case
I AM A STALKER
The Indrani Mukerjea Story: Buried Truth
Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez
The Devil Next Door
The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness
The Most Hated Man on the Internet
The Devil on Trial
Surviving R. Kelly
How to Fix a Drug Scandal
Till Murder Do Us Part: Soering vs. Haysom
The Staircase
MADOFF: The Monster of Wall Street
Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes
The Keepers
Cooking Up Murder: Uncovering the Story of César Román
The Innocence Files
Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case
Trial 4
I Am Vanessa Guillen
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
Wild Wild Country
I AM A KILLER
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields
Killer Sally
Missing: Dead or Alive?
Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story
Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich
Fear City: New York vs The Mafia
Unsolved Mysteries
Athlete A
Bitconned
Capturing the Killer Nurse
The Darkness within La Luz del Mundo
The Innocent Man
Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami

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Down for Love
Queen Cleopatra
Jailbirds
Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez
Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators
Escaping Twin Flames
Arnold
Trainwreck
The Devil Next Door
The Indrani Mukerjea Story: Buried Truth
McGREGOR FOREVER
Pirate Gold of Adak Island
The Most Hated Man on the Internet
Untold: Swamp Kings
The Pharmacist
Till Murder Do Us Part: Soering vs. Haysom
Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes
The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness
Colin in Black & White
How to Fix a Drug Scandal
Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones
NASCAR: Full Speed
Cooking Up Murder: Uncovering the Story of César Román
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan
Challenger
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields
Pepsi, Where's My Jet?
Murder Among the Mormons
Missing: Dead or Alive?
Fear City: New York vs The Mafia
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich
Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi
Aftershock: Everest and the Nepal Earthquake
Killer Sally
Earthstorm
Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story
Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer
The Ripper
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes

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