Many people have been resorting to Netflix for their daily dose of entertainment, especially during the quarantine. Aside from numerous K-drama series and Western movies, Netflix is also home to great documentaries that you can watch — and some of them are true-crime documentary series.
There are tons of true crime docuseries in the platform that will surely baffle your mind, trigger your emotions, and make you slightly uneasy.
Trigger warning; all of these documentaries contain disturbing events and scenes that some audience may find too hard to handle. Please watch at your own risk.
Here are some of our suggestions:
- Conversations with A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
No, this isn’t the movie where Zac Efron plays Ted Bundy. This is THE REAL Ted Bundy. We see in this series the interviews, footages, and audio recordings of notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, who murdered a number of young women in the 1970s. This follows his life story and his trial leading to his execution in 1989, where he confessed to killing at least 30 people.
How could a guy like Ted Bundy — handsome, smart, charming — kidnap, rape, and kill young girls in his lifetime and still have girls gushing over him?
This series will make you believe that looks are really not everything.
- Evil Genius
This is the story of Brian Wells, a pizza delivery guy who ended up robbing a bank with a collar bomb around his neck, that eventually killed him. If you think that’s just what it is, then you dead wrong. It gets weirder and weirder every second.
This mind-blowing docuseries tackles the events that lead to the strangest bank robbery of all time. How did a simple pizza delivery guy get into the crime with a bomb around his neck? Has he held, hostage? Was he an accomplice? Who is this woman named Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong?
Well (pun intended), you’d have to watch to find out.
- Abducted in Plain Sight
Not everyone is your nice and friendly neighbor. Abducted in Plain Sight revolves around a family, their neighbor Robert Berchtold, and how Berchtold managed to kidnap Jan Broberg Felt, the family’s teenage daughter, twice.
What seemed to be a charming neighbor turned out to be an evil person that the family wrongly trusted, leading to a series of events that will leave viewers disturbed and angry.
This is a story of deceit, affairs, pedophilia, and Stockholm syndrome.
- The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez
The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez narrates the tragic death of this eight-year-old boy in 2013. This follows the story of his short life, and how he was abused and maltreated by his own mother and his step-father.
In a span of eight months, he was the subject of torture in his household — receiving regular beatings, being forced to sleep in a box, burning him with cigarettes, shooting him with BB gun, and many more. Investigators revealed that his autopsy took two days because of the substantial amount of injuries the body has upon his death.
This series also lets us see how a failed system leads to the brutal killing of Gabriel, and how it could have had stopped the abuse if they have intervened earlier.
The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez will surely leave you teary-eyed, heartbroken, and angry at the same time.
- I am A Killer
With two seasons now on Netflix, I am A Killer highlights the first-hand stories of inmates that are currently on death row. Each episode starts off with an interview of the killer and their version of what happened at the crime. This then leads to interviews of the different other parties involved and their side of the story.
This docuseries lets you see the mind of a killer, and how unfortunate circumstances in their lives lead them to where they are now.
I am A Killer is definitely an interesting take on a true-crime series.
As disturbing as it is, these True Crime documentaries remind you to open up your eyes to the evil realities of mankind, which can help the viewers be more cautious with their surroundings. Watch and understand, and do not stay silent on the crimes happening right in front of your face.
So, are you watching?