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The top 30 chilling true crime documentaries to stream now: From serial killers to romance fraudsters, our critics sift through hundreds of options so you don't have to
From notorious serial killers to coercive cult leaders, miscarriages of justice to unresolved disappearances, our critics have hand-picked the best true crime shows out there to stream right now.
Its central figure Dr Ann Burgess provided much of the inspiration for that show's fictional character Wendy Carr (played by Anna Torv) and helped revolutionise not only the FBI's approach to the profiling of serial killers in the mid-1970s but also the way in which women were treated in law enforcement. It's glossy, enthralling and frequently gruesome stuff, using interviews with veteran detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department, prosecutors, and the friends and family of the victims to chart the twisty route towards solving each case and bringing the killer to justice. Swiftly growing from an online coaching aid to become a financial business which claimed to generate huge returns for its subscribers from mining, car sales, health, real estate and professional football, it was dealing in millions of dollars every day.
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