True crime has become one of the most fascinating subgenres, especially on streaming services, and these are the best true crime documentaries of 2025.

Based on the 2004 docuseries of the same name, The Staircase follows the bizarre case of author and father Michael Peterson (played by Colin Firth), who is accused of murdering his wife Kathleen (Toni ...

In November 1957, police in the aptly named Plainfield, Wisconsin, entered the remote farmhouse of 51-year-old handyman Ed Gein after he’d been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a local ...

When a true crime show, even if it is a dramatization, revisits the story of Ed Gein, you expect horror. What you might not expect is empathy. Yet, Monster: The Ed Gein Story seems determined to blur ...

The subject of a new Netflix true-crime offering was a quiet, isolated farmer to the outside world in the 1950s, but he was hiding a grisly nightmare house that would go on to inspire horror movies.

Netflix’s new true crime show The Monster of Florence gives a scripted glimpse into one of Italy’s longest and most complex investigations, in which authorities set out on an investigation into a ...

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The Ed Gein Story doesn’t feel anything like The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, and it even sets itself apart from The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. If you thought that the previous Monster stories were hard ...