Please recommend true crime/unsolved mystery documentaries

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I have access to YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Sky and the usual free streaming services

What have you watched that you've enjoyed?

Murder in the badlands is excellent. Just added to Netflix

Agree about Murder in the Badlands. The poem at the beginning of each episode is haunting (beautifully narrated by Saorise-Monica Jackson who plays Erin in Derry Girls)

The staircase is kind of good. Although it is quite one sided. And the main suspect and his legal team annoyed the hell out of me.

Death Row Stories (free on Prime) is brilliant, especially the "Double Jeopardy" episode. I still can't get my head around it.

Sophie: A Murder in West Cork on Netflix

About the murder of French woman Sophie Toscan du Plantier at her holiday cottage in Ireland in 1996. The police totally bungled the investigation and the prime suspect is still a free man despite being convicted in absentia by a French court.

The excellent podcast Crime Analyst also did a deep dive into the case and came to the same conclusion re the most likely killer.

'The Crime I Can't Forget' on iPlayer.

Just place marking for ideas myself!

Dear Zachary but honestly - be prepared , I've never sobbed so much watching the telly

The girl in the picture is a terribly sad story

Placemarking
Thank you all

Code of a killer. Very well done and sensitive to the murdered girls and their families.

https://www.itv.com/watch/code-of-a-killer/2a3242

Code of a Killer is a three-part British police drama television series which tells the true story of Alec Jeffreys' discovery of DNA fingerprinting and its introductory use by Detective David Baker in catching the double murderer Colin Pitchfork.

Set over a three-year period from 1983 to 1986, DCS David Baker leads an investigation of the vicious murders of the two Leicestershire schoolgirls, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth.
Alec Jeffreys at the time was an ambitious scientist who uncovered a remarkable method to read a person's unique DNA finger print.
Convinced the murderer was local, Baker approached Jeffreys to utilise his scientific technique as a way to solve the murders. The first ever DNA manhunt and blood testing of many men followed – all in the aid of catching the killer.

Don't Fuck With Cats - NetflixI think. Brilliant, about web sleuths

Should have said, 'The Crime I Can't Forget' is exclusively about cases in NI or Ireland.

I really liked Wild Crime on Disney+ & The Murdaugh Murders.

American Murder- the family next door on Netflix. Not sure if it’s been mentioned but it’s a tough watch, feel so sorry for the woman and her kids.

If you do watch Making a Murderer, follow it up with Convicting a Murderer.

I like UK ones

Murdertown
Murder at my door and
Killer in my village

all really interesting. Different story featured each episode

This is an excellent documentary. I watched on BBC IPlayer, but it's just been uploaded to youtube:

"The Ice Cream Wars" on iPlayer is also very good.

Another vote for 'Still Missing Morgan' on Disney+ - a really well made documentary that unearths new information. It's about Morgan Nick, a five-year-old who disappeared from a baseball game in Arkansas in 1995. It also features segments about another missing child, Jacob Wettering, whose mum has become friends with Morgan's mum.

MrBallen

https://youtube.com/@MrBallen

I'm recovering from flu so watched Still Missing Morgan yesterday. So interesting, so sad. I watched every single episode one after the other.

I had never heard of Morgan or the boy they were also talking about. His story was so sad. Their mums were lovely. I'm glad they had each other.

And today I'm watching The Keepers on Netflix. So upsetting hearing first hand from some of the girls about what happened to them at the school. They are so strong.

I want to say thank you for the great recommendations but that doesn't feel quite right considering the subject matter.

There's a series about the Kerry Babies here - also on All4 site.

Evidence of Evil on ITVx -Some I'd never seen before.

The Melissa Caddick story on itv is fascinating!