Top 10 Most Binge Worthy True Crime Series

where do you want to start i guess at the beginning somewhere it was a crazy beginning welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 most bingeable true crime series so what twisted in his head is hard to say and yet to see that it was like holy crap somebody just pulled a plug out of my heart for this list we're only looking at true crime tv shows and mini-series including dramatizations of real crimes as well as documentaries let us know in the comments which one you'll be binging as soon as this video is over number 10 i'll be gone in the dark every investigator i know that's been given the opportunity to examine this case feels that it's the case that they want solved before they die the golden state killer's reign of terror lasted through the 70s and 80s but it took another 30 years for the fbi to finally catch him in 2018 he finally confessed to over a dozen murders and many more serious offenses but one woman named michelle mcnamara spent those decades investigating the crimes herself eventually writing a book that became the documentary all begun in the dark in 2020 i'm so sad and full of self-doubt and that i'm not where where can this all lead mcnamara died in 2016. two years before the killer joseph james d'angelo was brought to justice after four decades of searching for this guy it came down to testing a piece of tissue from his trash can outside it was a 100 match to the golden state killer's dna featuring talking heads from mcnamara's husband iconic comedian patton oswalt as well as the criminal's victims and the cops who worked the case this series is as phenomenal as it is tragic number 9. ted bundy falling for a killer he's one of the most famous serial killers in history but as the documentary stars say it's a story desperately in need of a female point of view he knew he was going to go after women for their good nature their willingness to help out their empathy their belief that they should be nurturers that they should be kind and especially be kind to men this is a series on ted bundy from the perspective of the women in his life primarily his girlfriend elizabeth kendall he had spent a lifetime observing women and deciding which who's going to become a victim and i think he could tell when women had the codependence issue where they wanted to help him in any way they could the five episodes chronicle how his crimes impacted not only those he killed but also those who survived his attacks those who investigated him and those who spent years living in fear before he was caught it's a new refreshing take on a story you've heard before which is why you will not be able to stop watching at this point the judge has recessed the jury until saturday morning at that time the 12 members will decide whether to recommend the death penalty number eight evil genius the true story of america's most diabolical bank heist a bank heist like no other this four-part series is the story of marjorie deal armstrong and the robbery she masterminded but i'm not the worst one in rural pennsylvania in 2003 a man named brian wells robbed a bank for a few thousand dollars equipped with a homemade shotgun and collar bomb and i think it's at that time that he realized that it is a real bomb i'm not lying i don't think he realized until he started beeping tragically local police in the bomb squad were not able to defuse the bomb which detonated and killed wells before the latter arrived this documentary charts the circumstances behind the crime why it was done how it was carried out whether wells himself had anything to do with it and who deal armstrong herself was you know once the spotlight came on to march she became she was much more erratic with her letters they went from you know normal margins into stuff all over the page one of the weirdest crimes in american history the twists don't stop coming in evil genius number 7 tiger king murder mayhem and madness coming just at the start of the global lockdown in march 2020 there are very few people who haven't seen tiger king and those who haven't almost certainly know what it is anyway i'm gonna try and get some good shots so make sure y'all get me some promo pictures in there no i want you up front with a still camera but it was so wildly popular for a reason and there's never been a better time to settle in for a re-watch or to finally see what all the fuss is about it charts the story of joe exotic owner of a zoo and a big cat collector and his long time feud with carol baskin owner of a big cat's sanctuary joe had some pretty twisted ideas but i just took it as jokes the cats themselves aren't the focus though exotic's life is along with allegations that baskin is a murderer it is a wild ride from start to finish those who do things in a certain way whether on purpose or accidentally get rich number six how to fix a drug scandal this isn't just a scandal about bad science it is a scandal about bad law close to 50 000 different cases were found to be compromised when two different chemists working in separate crime labs independently of one another were found to have tampered with evidence sonja farrick and annie dukan were both arrested for their crimes in massachusetts just a few months apart revealing flaws in america's justice system and leading to tens of thousands of convictions being overturned so it became this just incredibly large case with thousands of convictions and guilty verdicts being questioned because of what annie did ducan was falsifying evidence leading to wrongful convictions to make herself look like a model staff member while ferric a long-term addict was using the narcotics she was supposed to be testing this documentary chronicles both sensational stories concurrently number five mcmillians and all i saw was mcdonald's monopoly fraud with a question mark and i go what is that if you're getting a little worn out from all the dark and violent crimes that have received the documentary treatment mcmillians is something of a pallet cleanser this mini-series follows the fraud case involving the chief of security of the agency that mcdonald's was using to promote their monopoly game between 1989 and the early 2000s simon marketing's jerry jacobson was able to get his hands on winning stickers stealing them and selling them on to a nationwide network that eventually got the attention of the mafia who wanted a share of the profits you had mike with the gas and then now you have this the monopoly that's really the highest three money makers of the mob so far for over a decade jacobson's scam flourished until finally gaining the attention of the fbi it's fbi agent doug matthews an incredibly enthusiastic figure who went undercover to catch the culprits that makes mcmillians one of the most entertaining donkey series out there i could have looked at that sticky note and said yeah whatever what is that what is that so without the informant on this case never would have happened never would have happened it started right there number four love fraud we all know to be wary of catfishes online but this is catfishing like you've never seen before it follows the life and times of con artist richard scott smith good night you make me crazy i'm crazy about you and i love you [Music] i really honest to god i love you smith's mo was seducing women online even marrying some of them and defrauding them of huge amounts of money with many women adding their stories about smith to the narrative and the documentarians themselves actually putting up money for the investigation it's one of the most intriguing shows out there he knew right from wrong so what twisted in his head it's hard to say love fraud will keep pulling you in with the allure of being a real ongoing case at the time it was filmed not to mention being a solid documentary anyway you have not only affected my life but dozens and dozens of others of whom i had the chance to speak with personally you are a monstrous human being and i believe that the devil disguises himself in so many ways on this earth of which you seemingly fit the bill number three mind hunter so how can i help david fincher's critically acclaimed drama charts the rise of modern criminal psychology as the field was developed by a small fbi department the bsu that studied the behavior of serial killers and defenders the three leads may only be loosely inspired by real people but the killers they interview are some of america's most notorious i could kill you now pretty easily do some interesting things before anyone showed up among those encountered are the co-ed killer ed kemper charles manson and the btk killer dennis rader while season two focuses on wayne williams the killer convicted of the atlanta murders but also features other criminals like the son of sam aka david berkowitz i'm not some crazed sex killer i needed a name that explained who i really was that i was being controlled by a 3 000 year old demon and if you want an even more detailed look at williams the 2020 documentary atlanta's missing and murdered the lost children will tell you all you need to know number two murder on middle beach do you ever wonder like who could have done it all the time yeah a far more personal documentary than many others murder on middle beach is about one man's attempts to solve his own mother's murder barbara beech hamburg was killed outside of her own house in 2010 with the police making little to no headway in the investigation so her son madison took matters into his own hands fighting with law enforcement to get access to the vital information they didn't share so how'd it go oh good i mean they don't want to give us anything but they want the doc they want like all of our files the murder remains unsolved to this day but the story is gripping and will keep you engaged oh my god there's unread messages from before she died [Music] so there's no way the police have seen this dude right correct it's clear that nothing is as it seems on middle beach with barbara's friends and family still struggling to reconcile what happened if if you're out there the person who killed my mom you must be living with such a weight [Music] and uh i feel sorry for what you must be carrying [Music] if i could ask you one question it would just be why before we unveil our number one pick here are some honorable mentions the ripper this series sheds a light on one of england's most infamous modern murderers it was the biggest crime investigation there had ever been in the united kingdom no police force had ever experienced that level of pressure quiz an ex-army major and his wife tried to scam their way to a million pound jackpot charles you've just won [Applause] the assassination of johnny versace american crime story season two of the ryan murphy executive produced drama focuses on the iconic fashion designers killing [Music] making a murderer the debate around whether convicted murderer stephen avery was innocent still rages steve everybody's listening what do you want to say today what else do you want to say stephen we can't tell it without you jeffrey epstein filthy rich get the story of how epstein got away with it for so long from his victims themselves he made me feel like you know basically i was lucky to be in his presence it was just a glorified manipulation thing he had going on that worked before we continue be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one the innocence files this netflix series is a deep dive into people who have been sent to prison for crimes they didn't commit and how they eventually got their convictions overturned following some of the most prominent cases from the us's long-running innocence project it is a harrowing look at miscarriages of justice they always say you don't question god but i did many of the people the show follows were convicted of violent crimes some of them at very young ages by what the series consulting execs describe as quote government's reliance on junk science discredited and suggestive eyewitness identification procedures and prosecutors who engage in misconduct to win at any cost he said your teeth ma matches i said how can the man ain't beating nobody since multiple incidents are explored throughout the episodes rather than one sprawling case taking up a whole season it is easy to binge watch this attention-grabbing and important series i've been on death row in mississippi for five years and and i know if i can't get someone to look into my case i know they will easily see that they have the wrong person locked up do you agree with our picks check out this other recent clip from watchmojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos 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Length: 15min 22sec (922 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 26 2021