The best serial killer documentaries to watch in 2026 include Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer and Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer on Netflix, The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer on Hulu, and One Night in Idaho: The College Murders on Prime Video. The newest one is Investigation Discovery's Unmasking a Monster: Aileen Wuornos. It premieres Wednesday, September 30, 2026, from 8 to 11 p.m. ET/PT on ID and streams on HBO Max.
Each entry below says where it streams, when it came out, and what a court decided about the people in it. The older version of this page got some of that wrong. The Mortician is about a funeral home in Pasadena, California, not Mississippi. The Fox Hollow Murders is about Herb Baumeister in Indiana, not Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow. The Fall of Diddy came from Investigation Discovery, and Predators is an MTV Documentary Films release, not a Paramount+ series. Our sources are listed at the end of the page.
Where to watch each documentary
| Title | Where | Released |
|---|---|---|
| Unmasking a Monster: Aileen Wuornos | ID, HBO Max | Sept. 30, 2026 |
| Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers | Netflix | Oct. 30, 2025 |
| Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer | Netflix | Mar. 31, 2025 |
| The Hillside Strangler | MGM+ | 2026 |
| The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer | Hulu | Feb. 18, 2025 |
| One Night in Idaho: The College Murders | Prime Video | July 11, 2025 |
| The Investigation of Lucy Letby | Netflix | Feb. 4, 2026 |
| The Mortician | HBO | June 1, 2025 |
| The Yogurt Shop Murders | HBO | Aug. 3, 2025 |
| American Murder: Gabby Petito | Netflix | Feb. 2025 |
| The Perfect Neighbor | Netflix | Oct. 2025 |
| Predators | US theaters | Sept. 2025 |
| Sean Combs: The Reckoning | Netflix | Dec. 2025 |
| The Fall of Diddy | ID | Jan. 2025 |
| American Manhunt: O.J. Simpson | Netflix | Jan. 2025 |
| Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke | Hulu | Feb. 27, 2025 |
| Unknown Number: The High School Catfish | Netflix | Aug. 29, 2025 |
| Amy Bradley Is Missing | Netflix | July 16, 2025 |
| The Alabama Solution | HBO | Oct. 10, 2025 |
| Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer | Netflix | Dec. 18, 2019 |
| Making a Murderer | Netflix | 2015 and 2018 |
| Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer | Netflix | Jan. 2021 |
New Aileen Wuornos documentaries
Florida executed Aileen Wuornos on October 9, 2002. She had been convicted of murdering six men in Central and North Florida in 1989 and 1990. Two new documentaries about her came out within a year of each other. Nick Broomfield's two older films are still the best known.
Unmasking a Monster: Aileen Wuornos (ID, 2026)
Investigation Discovery premieres this three-part series on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, from 8 to 11 p.m. ET/PT, and it streams on HBO Max. Arrow Media, a Fremantle company, made it. Fremantle's July 2026 announcement says the series uses digital recreations and visual effects built on documented first-person accounts from Wuornos, people close to her, and the investigators who worked the case. Actress Morag Peacock plays Wuornos in those scenes. We have not seen it yet, so we will add our notes after it airs.
Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers (Netflix, 2025)
Emily Turner directed this feature-length Netflix documentary, which came out on October 30, 2025. Deadline reported that it looks at her story "through a modern lens." It uses audio interviews with people who knew her, archival footage of former Dateline correspondent Michele Gillen, and death row interviews with Wuornos that had not been shown before.
Nick Broomfield's two Wuornos films
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992) is about the media crowd and the bidding war over her story after she suddenly became famous. Broomfield went back to her in 2002 for Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, with cinematographer and co-director Joan Churchill. Roger Ebert wrote that she gave Broomfield her last interview. Watch the 1992 film first. The second one makes more sense after it.
For the full court record, read our article on Aileen Wuornos and her six murder convictions. The shop also has an Aileen Wuornos collection of shirts, hoodies, and gifts.
Serial killer documentaries from 2025 and 2026
Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer (Netflix)
Liz Garbus directed this three-part Netflix series, released March 31, 2025. It covers the women whose remains were found along Ocean Parkway in Suffolk County, Long Island, starting in 2010. The victims had worked in the sex industry, and the series asks whether that is part of why the investigation moved so slowly. Their families kept pushing for answers. "These family members were never going to give up," Garbus told Netflix.
The series came out before the case ended. Police arrested architect Rex Heuermann in July 2023. In April 2026 he pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and admitted in court to killing an eighth, Karen Vergata. On June 17, 2026, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Our article on the Long Island serial killer covers the case itself.
The Hillside Strangler (MGM+)
MGM+ lists this as a 2026 series on its official trailer. The case is the Hillside Strangler killings in Los Angeles and Glendale. Cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono were accused of raping and murdering 10 women between October 1977 and February 1978. In October 1979, Bianchi pleaded guilty to five of the Los Angeles murders and was sentenced to life, and he agreed to testify against Buono. He also admitted killing two women in Bellingham, Washington. Buono went to trial. In November 1983 he was sentenced to life without parole for the murders of nine young women and girls. We could not confirm the director or the number of episodes.
The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer (Hulu)
Hulu released this series on February 18, 2025. It is about Fox Hollow Farm, Herb Baumeister's 18-acre estate in Westfield, Indiana, north of Indianapolis. In 1996, police found hundreds of human bones there, the remains of seven people. Baumeister killed himself in Canada in July 1996 while investigators were trying to question him. So no court ever ruled on the killings. He is a suspect, not a convicted killer.
The identifications kept coming long after he died. Investigators have worked through about 10,000 burned bones and fragments from the property. In October 2023, the Hamilton County coroner said DNA had identified Allen Livingston as the ninth presumed victim.
One Night in Idaho: The College Murders (Prime Video)
Liz Garbus and Matthew Galkin made this Prime Video series, which premiered July 11, 2025. It is about the four University of Idaho students stabbed to death in an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho, on November 13, 2022. Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty in July 2025 under a plea deal that ruled out the death penalty. On July 23, 2025, a judge sentenced him to four consecutive life terms. In July 2026 he filed a petition asking to withdraw his guilty plea.
The Investigation of Lucy Letby (Netflix)
Lucy Letby was a neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital in England. In August 2023 a jury convicted her of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others, and she was sentenced to spend the rest of her life in prison. Netflix released this feature-length documentary on February 4, 2026. The Guardian's David Conn wrote that it includes the first admission of "tiny" doubt from doctors who accused her. He also wrote that the prosecution's medical evidence has been criticized by an unusually large number of British and international medical experts.
More true crime documentaries worth watching
The Mortician (HBO)
Joshua Rofé directed this three-part HBO series, which premiered June 1, 2025. It is about the Lamb Funeral Home in Pasadena, California. In the early 1980s, David Sconce, from the family that owned it, took over the business. People reported that Sconce served prison time for mutilating corpses, holding mass cremations, and paying men to assault business rivals. The series includes an interview with Sconce after his release from prison. In that interview he defends the mass cremations.
The Yogurt Shop Murders (HBO)
Margaret Brown directed this four-part HBO series, which premiered August 3, 2025. Four teenage girls were killed at a yogurt shop in Austin, Texas, in December 1991. Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott were convicted, and both convictions were later overturned on constitutional grounds. The case changed after the series aired. In September 2025, Austin police named Robert Eugene Brashers as the suspect, linked by DNA testing. Brashers died in 1999, so no court will try him. On February 19, 2026, a judge declared the four men who had been accused innocent.
American Murder: Gabby Petito (Netflix)
This three-part Netflix series came out in February 2025. It follows Gabby Petito, 22, and the 2021 road trip she shared on her "Van Life" blog and YouTube channel with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie. It uses home video, news footage, and interviews with her family, friends, and police. The Teton County, Wyoming, coroner ruled that Petito died of strangulation. Laundrie died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound before any trial, a lawyer for his family said, so no court ever ruled on her death.
The Perfect Neighbor (Netflix)
Geeta Gandbhir made this film almost entirely from police body camera video, and it won an award at Sundance before Netflix released it in October 2025. It is about the killing of Ajike Owens, 35, a mother of four, in Ocala, Florida, on June 2, 2023. Her neighbor, Susan Lorincz, had been in a long dispute over neighborhood children playing near her home. Owens knocked on Lorincz's door, and Lorincz fired a .380 handgun through it. In August 2024 a jury convicted Lorincz of manslaughter, and she was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Predators (MTV Documentary Films)
David Osit's film looks back at To Catch a Predator, the Dateline segment that ran from 2004 to 2007 and filmed men who arrived at a house to meet someone they believed was underage. It asks what the show did to the people on both sides of the camera. It premiered at Sundance in 2025 and opened in US theaters in September 2025.
Sean Combs: The Reckoning (Netflix)
Alexandria Stapleton directed this limited Netflix series, released in December 2025. 50 Cent, a longtime rival of Combs, is a producer. It opens with footage of Combs six days before his federal indictment. On July 2, 2025, a jury found Combs guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. It found him not guilty of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking. In October 2025 he was sentenced to 50 months in prison.
The Fall of Diddy (Investigation Discovery)
Investigation Discovery aired this series in January 2025, months before the Combs trial. The Los Angeles Times wrote that it shows Combs as a man with violent outbursts who used his power to keep people quiet. Those are allegations from the people interviewed. The series came out before the verdict, so watch The Reckoning after it for what the jury decided.
American Manhunt: O.J. Simpson (Netflix)
Floyd Russ directed this series, which Netflix released in January 2025. It covers the 1994 killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman and the trial that followed. On October 3, 1995, a criminal jury found Simpson not guilty of both murders. In February 1997, a civil jury ordered him to pay a total of $33.5 million in damages. Simpson died of cancer in April 2024, at 76.
Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke (Hulu)
Ruby Franke gave parenting advice on the 8 Passengers family channel on YouTube. Olly Lambert directed this three-part Hulu series about her, released February 27, 2025. Franke pleaded guilty in December 2023 to four counts of child abuse. In February 2024 she was sentenced to four consecutive prison terms of one to 15 years each. Her business partner, Jodi Hildebrandt, also pleaded guilty and was sentenced the same day.
Unknown Number: The High School Catfish (Netflix)
Skye Borgman directed this Netflix film, released August 29, 2025. Lauryn Licari and her then-boyfriend, Owen McKenny, were teenagers in Beal City, Michigan, when someone harassed them with anonymous messages for 20 months. Spoiler for the rest of this paragraph: the person behind the messages was Lauryn's mother, Kendra Licari. In 2023 she pleaded guilty to two counts of stalking a minor. She spent 19 months in prison and was released on August 8, 2024.
Amy Bradley Is Missing (Netflix)
Ari Mark and Phil Lott directed this three-part Netflix series, released July 16, 2025. Amy Bradley disappeared from the cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas in 1998 as it docked in Curacao. Her father went to check on her early that morning, and she was gone. She has never been found, despite an FBI investigation. No court has ever ruled on what happened to her.
The Alabama Solution (HBO)
This one is about a prison system, not one crime. Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman spent six years on it, and much of the film is video shot on contraband cell phones by men held inside Alabama prisons. It premiered at Sundance, and HBO released it on October 10, 2025.
Newer titles we have only seen trailers for
These are real releases. The networks and dates come from official trailers and from Wikipedia's lists of each service's original shows. We have not found a published description we can cite for what most of them cover, so we left the case details out rather than guess.
| Title | Where | Released |
|---|---|---|
| Handsome Devil: Charming Killer | Paramount+ | Jan. 20, 2026 |
| Girl on the Run: The Hunt for America's Most Wanted Woman | Hulu | Feb. 19, 2026 |
| Surviving the Jehovah's Witnesses (Spanish language) | HBO Max | Feb. 20, 2026 |
| Murder in Glitterball City | HBO | 2026 |
| The Cult Behind the Killer: The Andrea Yates Story | ID | Not confirmed |
| Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart | Netflix | Not confirmed |
| Sons of Ecstasy | HBO Max | Not confirmed |
Classics that still hold up
Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer (Netflix)
Mark Lewis directed this three-part Netflix series, released December 18, 2019. It follows amateur online sleuths who went looking for Luka Magnotta after he posted a video of himself killing two kittens. Magnotta later killed Jun Lin, a Chinese student at Concordia University in Montreal. In December 2014 a jury found Magnotta guilty of first-degree murder.
Making a Murderer (Netflix)
Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos made the 20 episodes of this series, released in two seasons in 2015 and 2018. It follows Steven Avery of Wisconsin. Avery was convicted of rape in 1985 and spent 18 years in prison before DNA testing cleared him in 2003. In 2007 he was convicted of murdering Teresa Halbach. His nephew, Brendan Dassey, then 16, confessed to helping him. Dassey was also convicted in the case and sentenced to life in prison, with a chance of parole after 41 years. Avery has challenged his murder conviction in court more than once.
Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer (Netflix)
This four-part Netflix series came out in January 2021. Homicide detectives Gil Carrillo and Frank Salerno, who led the hunt for Richard Ramirez, tell most of the story themselves. A California jury convicted Ramirez in 1989 of 13 murders and 11 sexual assaults, and he was sentenced to death. He died of natural causes in 2013, still on death row. Our article on Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker has more on the case.
Monster: The Ed Gein Story is a drama
People often look for Monster: The Ed Gein Story on documentary lists. It is a scripted series. Netflix released it on October 3, 2025, as the third season of Ryan Murphy's Monster series, and Charlie Hunnam plays Gein. For the real case, read our article on Ed Gein, the real Buffalo Bill. It covers what he was charged with and what the court decided.
FAQ
What is the best serial killer documentary on Netflix right now?
Our pick is Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, because the two detectives who led the hunt for Ramirez tell it themselves. For a recent case, Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer covers the Gilgo Beach killings. Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty in April 2026.
What is the new Aileen Wuornos documentary?
Unmasking a Monster: Aileen Wuornos premieres on Investigation Discovery on September 30, 2026, from 8 to 11 p.m. ET/PT, and streams on HBO Max. Netflix also released Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers on October 30, 2025.
Is The Fox Hollow Murders about Chad Daybell?
No. It is about Herb Baumeister and Fox Hollow Farm in Westfield, Indiana. Baumeister killed himself in 1996 before police could question him, so no court ever ruled on the case.
Are there documentaries on this list where no one was convicted?
Yes. In The Fox Hollow Murders and American Murder: Gabby Petito, the person police focused on died before any trial. In Amy Bradley Is Missing, she has never been found and no court has ruled on what happened. In The Yogurt Shop Murders, the two convictions were overturned, and the man police now name died in 1999.
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13 comments
Mel P
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
Destinie
I found the night stalker to be a very incredible documentary, it has a lot of background information on who he really was and how they used his clues like his shoe prints at most every place it was the same avia shoe and they knew the size was an 11 or 12 and when he took that 6 year old little girl and sexually assaulted her but he decided to leave her next to a gas station and told her to go in and call the cops and I’m really glad they got that same girl to talk about what had happened that night many years later and how she didn’t let what happened to her change her and my heart hurts for all of those family’s who lost sisters, brothers, cousins, daughters, sons, grandmas, grandpas everyone they loved and if only those things hadn’t happened like how can these serial killers just easily do that to someone and not feel any remorse like I wasn’t even born yet when Richard Ramirez was out and ruining all these peoples lives but that’s the way the world goes ig but I definitely recommend watching The Night Stalker and also The Cecil Hotel on Netflix
Sarah
The Night Stalker was AMAZINGLY good! Dont F**k with Cats was one I had skipped over so many times and had no interest in watching until 1 night I couldn’t find anything… and holy s**t, it was so addicting and not at all what I expected. The title is somewhat misleading when you figure in the WHOLE story, but definitely makes sense once you watch it! I had taken a small break from true crime bc I became obsessed with the “Servant”, but Im back to it now and can’t wait to catch what’s out there. I see that Discovery+ has a wealth of true crime so yall should check that out too!
Kyle
Great list going to watch the ripper now!
Candice
Don’t fuck with cats was not what I was expecting but unbelievably addicting!
Rudy
I would add Night stalker to this list as well its really good
Steve
Cropsey is a damn scary documentary. Don’t watch it alone and in the dark.
That said – a great piece of filmmaking.
Maria
Waiting for one of the networks do a story on the murder of Sylvia Likens, Indiana 1965. Just horrible!!
Also the Cinnamon Brown sensational 1985 murder of her stepmother.
SL
Seen em’ all. Great list 👍🏻
watched The Keepers most recently…it was an unexpectedly excellent film. Highly recommended 🤘🏻
Tam Cook
Hey there’s a really good true crime doc you missed it’s called The Devil You Know…it originally aired on Viceland and I believe they still have it on demand but you can watch all of the episodes in their entirety on YouTube
Female 49 yrs old
8 years ago i met a man named craig we started hanging out he was very persistant i had spent the last ten years of my life as a crack addicted hooker but for reason he didnt care he didnt judge me he kept persuing me sooner or later i gave in because i wanted out of my currentn realtionship where i was
t urned out to the street life..we started spending time together and i sooned movecd into his home cause i had nowhere to go…i continued o smoke crack but he never knew he worked everyday so it was easy to hide…a little time went buy and i soon obtained my own apt in downtown akron ohio. He came over all the time one evening we had a fight and i pressed way to many of his buttons because he wrapped his strong arms around my neck and when i looked in his eyes i saw a man who would kill me and not care …it was like a warning i ran all over town screaming his name i knew sonething was wrong but no one believed me i had just come across a killer and had no way to prove it..its been 8yrs i finally walked away but he is still here and the feeling that we may have a serial killer in our streets wont go away but who am i noone will listen …i stayed with him because i knew if i waited long enough sooner or later someone would hear me…he always says women are nothing but bitches and hos he would go and sleep with hookers in hotel rooms behind my back but i didnt care….i knew he wanted to keep his eyes on me so i obeyed…i was dealing with the devil himself he is still free and im afraid they still wont believe a ex hoijer with no credibilty…this man is hiding a dark secret his is good at what he does…if they would just look into it if im wrong ok im sorry but please for the safety of me and the other woman in this town we have to look into his past.. He has to satify his need sooner or later he will make a mistake i hope im so afraid he is still gonna come after me he knows where i live and my restraing order was denied please help
Anthony Moorer
I was reading the article of the 6 uncaught serial killers and it stuck me and strikes at me that at least 2 aren’t solved. Those of all the gay murders. To shoot someone 12 times is overkill and personal. Idk maybe he killed others to hide the one he really wanted. I wonder if people in sex reassignment were looked . The other unsolved case seems like a gay man that can’t come to terms with his sexuality so his compulsion probably after taking a victim he had sex with
No DNA in this age. Idk…
Personally I think the killer or killers had been interviewed. As good as the good guy must think out of the box to catch them the same goes for the killers as they try to allude the police and capture. One isnt born hating the world but when the world hates them it’s personal…
Anthony Moorer
I have been intrigued by the way the minds of serial killers,hitmen,mobsters as well as old FBI agents that hunted the hunters. There is just a no nonsense, Romanesk and MIDEVIL way about them since birth. Did all serial murderers have the “killer” gene. I believe your average American could be put into positions where they had to do what they never thought they were capable of. In an instance or in a no way out situation. These individuals I believe would have still committed violent crimes if they were raised well. Most S.K. have abandonment issues,intimacy ,drug addicted or alcoholic parents that abused them physically as well as sexually. Not all but a good percentage. They are interesting…SIMPLE…Most have above average 2 high intelligence levels. To be able to do what the do and blend in so effortlessly is nothing short of scary. They have a sixth sense. From whom to chose,where to take the bodies, and get away time after time without leaving a trace. Now they say they have no ability to feel remorse,guilt, or to have no conscious . I differ with that opinion. Those that have been systematically broken down, neglected,used,beaten and abused I would think they were numb inside made by both nature and nurture.