Platform: Netflix
Year: 2020
Chapters: a single episode
Duration: One hour and 23 minutes
Theme: Murder / Documentary Film
Recommended age: For people over 16 years old
Watch The Watts Affair – The Homicidal Father on Netflix
amanda knox
Amanda Knox is another true crime that we can see on Netflix. The docuseries is named after a student at the University of Peruggia who was accused of homicide of Meredith Kerecher. Amanda Knox was the main accused of this murder that we can relive in a single episode of an hour and a half with a case full of errors and an investigation criticized for its chaos and its failures. Knox was accused and acquitted on two occasions and in this hour and a half we will be able to find out what happened through images, files, witnesses, specialists, journalists…
Platform: Netflix
Year: 2016
Chapters: just one episode
Duration: An hour and a half
Theme: abuse, murder
Recommended age: For ages 13 and up
The disappearance of Madeleine McCann
If you live in Spain you will remember one of the most listened to or most broadcast cases on television not only in our country but throughout the world. The disappearance of a girl he was on holiday in the Algarve with his parents…Madeline McCann disappeared on May 3, 2007 in the Algarve, in Portugal, while her parents had dinner with their friends and she was in the room with her brothers, sleeping. A disappearance that shocked the whole world and that even today has not been resolved but that we will be able to follow in these eight episodes that will recreate the events, the first moments, the repercussion, the role of the media and those who were suspected and investigated by the disappearance of the girl.
Platform: Netflix
Year: 2019
Chapters: One season, eight episodes
Duration: Between 45 and 65 minutes
Theme: Disappearance
Recommended age: For ages 13 and up
Watch The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann on Netflix
Sophie: A Murder in Cork
In the year 1996 a French woman found murdered before Christmas in a rural area of Ireland. A film producer spending time in a country house in West Cork, Sophie Toscan de Plantier. She was murdered on December 23, 1996 in an event that stars in one of the best true crimes that we can see on Netflix. Three episodes that tell us what happened to Sophie Toscan de Plantier while she was enjoying a few days of relaxation before returning to Paris to celebrate the holidays. How it happened, why it happened and how was the investigation.
Platform: Netflix
Year: 2021
Chapters: One season, three episodes
Duration: Between 49 and 64 minutes per chapter
Theme: Murder, crime docuseries
Recommended age: For over twelve years
Watch Sophie, Murder in Cork on Netflix
Carmel: Who killed Maria Marta?
María Marta García Belsunce was found murdered in her bathtub at her home in Buenos Aires in 2002. It seemed like a domestic accident at first but it was soon discovered that it was a murder, but who was it? An attempted robbery? His family of him? A Netflix docuseries released in 2020 that tells us about an event that kept an entire country in suspense for months and without a clear murderer to blame.
Platform: Netflix
Year: 2020
Chapters: One season, four episodes
Duration: About an hour per chapter
Theme: Crime Documentary
Recommended age: For ages 13+
See Carmel: Who Killed María Marta? on netflix
The Keepers
One of the most striking true crime on Netflix is The Keepers with the murder in the sixties of the nun Catherine Cesnik. A nun murdered in 1969 whose crime did not stop there but ended up being the reason to discover a story of murders, sexual abuse, conspiracy and mystery. Everything about Sister Cesnik in six one-hour episodes where we will discover all the details of the case in one of the best docuseries about crimes that we can see on Netflix.
Platform: Netflix
Year: 2017
Chapters: six episodes
Duration: Between 60 and 70 minutes per chapter
Theme: abuse, murder
Recommended age: For people over 16 years old
Don’t even touch cats: A killer on the Internet
“Don’t even touch cats: A murderer on the Internet” is one of the most striking and crazy true crimes that we can see on Netflix. It is one of the first that you must see, one of the most entertaining and most unlikely of the streaming platform if you try to explain it. Three episodes in which we will meet a group of Facebook addicts. They have their own group of “cyber friends” and look for things on the Internet… Until they discover a video of an anonymous person who kills cats while recording. They will then become obsessed with unmasking him, with finding clues that will lead him to find out who is behind the murders, why he does them. A search that will become more complicated and will become something much more important than entertainment on social networks. Flight between countries, murders and three episodes that will hook you from start to finish.
Platform: Netflix
Year: 2019
Chapters: One season, three episodes
Duration: About 64 minutes per chapter
Theme: Docuseries / Social networks and internet
Recommended age: For people over 16 years old
Watch Don’t Touch Cats: An Internet Killer on Netflix
Night Stalker: On the hunt for a serial killer
A serial killer with dozens of assaults in crimes and the same method over and over again: he breaks into his victims’ homes at night, he murders and rapes them. Women and men of all ages with the same procedure and the same criminal whom the press called “The Night Stalker”. A case entrusted to inspectors Gil Carrillo and Frank Salerno who were in charge of doing everything possible to discover who is behind these terrible events in which there are no clues or indications as to who it could have been or why. reconstructions of the events, interviews with the victims and statements by the investigators in a docuseries of four episodes of around fifty minutes each.
Platform: Netflix
Year: 2021
Chapters: One season, four episodes
Duration: About 50 minutes per chapter
Theme: Crime Documentary
Recommended age: For people over 16 years old
Watch Night Stalker – The Hunt for a Serial Killer on Netflix
spanish true crime
Cases that occurred in Spain, media cases that you are sure to know about and that have become docuseries about crimes.
Death in Leon
On HBO Max we can see one of the best documentaries about crimes in Spain, the one about the death of Isabel Carrasco in León on May 12, 2014. The president of the Diputación de León was assassinated in the center of the city with a perfectly planned plan. traced and we will know all the details in one of the best crime documentaries in history, created by Justin Webster and Enric Bach and available on HBO Max. Recreations of the facts and the crimethe monitoring carried out by the police, how the investigation was or what the witnesses who witnessed the murder say, but also how the trial against Montserrat González and Triana Martínez, mother and daughter and those accused of Carrasco’s death, was.
Platform: HBO Spain
Year: 2019
Chapters: Four episodes, one season
Duration: About an hour per episode
Theme: Murder
Recommended age: For people over 16 years old
See Death in León on HBO Spain
The Alcasser case
In 1992 three teenagers disappeared in Picassent. Miriam, Toñi and Desirée were fourteen-year-old teenagers who disappeared in November 1992 when they went to a disco in Picassent. A search that lasted weeks, that lasted months until their half-buried bodies were found in a case that shocked Spain and was continuously mistreated by the media. A five-episode miniseries which tells, in detail, everything that has happened since the disappearance of the girls. How it was lived, what was the role of the media… A chronological tour with images from television and newspapers, with witness statements or the subsequent trial of the case.
Platform: Netflix
Year: 2019
Chapters: One season, five chapters
Duration: About an hour or 70 minutes per episode
Theme: Docuseries / Crime Documentary / Spanish Series
Recommended age: For people over 16 years old
Watch The Alcàsser Case on Netflix
The Wanninkhof-Carabantes case
Another of the most mediatic cases in Spain was the disappearance of Rocío Wanninkhof at his house in Malaga on a fair night in 1999. At first, his mother’s ex-partner, Dolores Vázquez, was blamed. Accused and targeted by the media in a smear campaign until another event occurred years later also in Malaga: the disappearance of the lifeless body of Sonia Carabantes. Two crimes related to each other, two murdered teenagers and two intertwined stories that can be thoroughly understood in one of the best Spanish true-crimes that we can see on Netflix with a single episode of an hour and a half.
Platform: Netflix
Year: 2021
Chapters: a single episode
Duration: One hour and 28 minutes
Theme: Docuseries / Crime in Spain
Recommended age: For people over 16 years old
Watch The Wanninkhof Affair – Carabantes on Netflix
Where is Martha?
Marta del Castillo disappeared in January 2009 and this 2021 docuseries plunges us into a case that shook an entire country. The 17-year-old Sevillian girl disappeared after staying with her ex-boyfriend Miguel Carcaño but twelve years later it is still not clear what happened and who was to blame. This project or national true crime tells us what happened recreating what happened on that day of the disappearance but also with Statements from the young woman’s family and even with statements from some of those initially accused of his disappearance.
Platform: Netflix
Year: 2021
Chapters: A season with three chapters
Duration: About an hour per episode
Theme: Docuseries / Crime in Spain
Recommended age: For people over 16 years old
See Where’s Martha? on netflix