The Creepiest Crime TV Shows Ever Made
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- 1From a creepy clue left at a murder scene, detectives hunt for a killer linked to a missing child.
- Premiered: September 29, 2021
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- 2Reenactments and interviews retell the circumstances of unsolved crimes and paranormal events.
- Premiered: September 14, 1988
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- 3A look at the experiences of ordinary people who have lived the unthinkable.
- Premiered: July 1, 2020
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- 4An elite squad of FBI profilers analyzes the country's most-twisted criminal minds.
- Premiered: September 22, 2005
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- 5FBI agents develop new techniques that allow them to pursue criminals.
- Premiered: October 13, 2017
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- The criminal justice process, from the crime to the investigation to the testimony and verdict.
- Premiered: December 3, 2020
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- 7Capt. Benson and her NYPD squad fight for justice in cases ripped straight from the headlines.
- Premiered: September 20, 1999
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- 8Police investigations unearth the personal and professional secrets of those involved.
- Premiered: January 12, 2014
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- 9Dr. Temperance Brennan uses impressive forensics skills to solve murders.
- Premiered: September 13, 2005
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- 10A twisted criminal's gruesome videos drive a group of online sleuths to launch a risky manhunt.
- Premiered: December 18, 2019
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- Experts draw on forensic science to solve baffling crimes and other mysteries.
- Premiered: February 23, 2020
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- 12Detectives utilize new technology and social media in an effort to crack long-unsolved crimes.
- Premiered: February 27, 2017
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- 13Investigators draw on forensic science to solve baffling crimes and other mysteries.
- Premiered: April 21, 1996
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- 14Investigative reports on crime and justice cases.
- Premiered: January 19, 1988
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- 15Two brothers battle evil forces.
- Premiered: September 13, 2005
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The First 48
Dion Graham, Caroline Mason, Tony MullinsDetectives around the country race against the clock to solve homicides and identify suspects.- Premiered: June 3, 2004
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- 17Special agents investigate crimes related to the Navy and Marine Corps.
- Premiered: September 23, 2003
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- 18True stories of women who lost control and committed murder.
- Premiered: August 6, 2004
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- 19For over ten years, AMERICAN JUSTICE® has been the gold standard of criminal justice programming, tackling today's toughest issues through the cases that challenge and change the law. Famous cases that have been featured on the show include the Scott Peterson case, Atlanta child murders, Central Park jogger incident, the Hillside stranglers, and the Wells Fargo heist. Told by key players from police to the victims to the perpetrators, it offers a rare, inside view of the criminal justice process that enables viewers to understand the complex legal principles at stake. Hosted by award-winning journalist Bill Kurtis and produced by Towers Productions, American Justice has been hailed as "presenting ... an insightful perspective on the most controversial aspects of criminal law in the nation."
- Premiered: 1992
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- 20True stories of the paranormal told by those who have experienced real-life horror tales.
- Premiered: October 28, 2005
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- 21A new case and characters are followed each season in this anthology series set in the Midwest.
- Premiered: April 15, 2014
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- 22A self-destructive detective shines a light into the hearts and minds of psychopaths and killers.
- Premiered: May 4, 2010
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- 23A financial adviser and his family are forced to relocate after dealings with a drug cartel go awry.
- Premiered: July 21, 2017
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- 24A man exonerated by DNA after 18 years in prison becomes the prime suspect in another grisly crime.
- Premiered: December 18, 2015
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- 25Compelling mysteries, powerful documentaries, in-depth investigations.
- Premiered: March 31, 1992
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- 26Unraveling the mysteries of murder.
- Premiered: October 25, 2011
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Deadly Devotion
Rick PasqualoneDeadly Devotion (Investigation Discovery, 2013) is an American true crime documentary television series. The show follows crimes and the people wrapped up in unique subcultures and secret societies that live according to their own set of rules, rituals, and traditions.- Premiered: 2013
- 28Missing, presumed dead and living a homicide-free life, Dexter is thrown when his son shows up.
- Premiered: November 7, 2021
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- 29Chicago P.D.'s Intelligence Unit investigates formidable offenses to deliver justice for the city.
- Premiered: January 8, 2014
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- 30Villanelle is a psychopathic assassin, and Eve is the woman charged with hunting her down.
- Premiered: April 8, 2018
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- 31"Red" Reddington agrees to work with the FBI, on the condition he'll only work with profiler Keen.
- Premiered: September 23, 2013
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- 32The Frankenstein Chronicles (A&E, 2015) is a British television period crime drama series created by Benjamin Ross and Barry Langford, and a re-imagining of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. Inspector John Marlott (Sean Bean), a river police officer, uncovers a corpse made up of body parts from eight missing children, and sets about determining the identity of the person responsible.
- Premiered: November 11, 2015
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- 33Miss Jane Marple uses her reputation and keen observation skills to aid police in solving crimes.
- Premiered: December 12, 2004
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- 34The aftermath of the 1889 Jack the Ripper murders in London.
- Premiered: December 30, 2012
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- 35Two top-notch female investigators dig into murder cases that have gone for years without answers.
- Premiered: September 3, 2013
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- 36When family man Nick Brewer is abducted, those closest to him race to uncover who is behind it.
- Premiered: August 25, 2021
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- 37Newly appointed coroner Jenny Cooper investigates suspicious deaths.
- Premiered: January 7, 2019
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- 38La Mante (TF1, 2017) is a French thriller miniseries directed by Alexandre Laurent. In Paris, police search for a psychopath whose murders are inspired by a famous serial killer who terrorised the country 25 years ago.
- Premiered: December 30, 2017
- 39In an idyllic coastal town, a young woman's disappearance triggers a devastating chain of events.
- Premiered: June 7, 2021
- 40A journalist tries to solve a series of murders in New York City in 1896.
- Premiered: January 21, 2018
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- Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's life.
- Premiered: May 19, 2019
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- 42Agents use all of their talents, intellect and expertise to keep New York and the country safe.
- Premiered: September 25, 2018
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- 43Jane Doe's coded tattoos set Agent Kurt Weller and the FBI on a mission to unravel their mysteries.
- Premiered: September 21, 2015
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Your Worst Nightmare
Eric Abraham, Clark Sarullo, Robin BloodworthHarrowing crimes turn victims' worst nightmares into unfathomable realities.- Premiered: October 22, 2014
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- 45Jack the Ripper is a six-part BBC television drama made in 1973, in which the case of the Jack the Ripper murders is reopened and analysed by Detective Chief Superintendents Barlow and Watt. These characters were hugely popular with UK TV viewers at the time from their appearances on the long-running police series Z-Cars and its sequels Softly, Softly and Barlow at Large. The programme was presented partly as a discussion between the two principals in the present day, interspersed with dramatised-documentary scenes set in the 19th century. The experiment was seen to be a success, and the formula was repeated in 1976 with Second Verdict, in which Barlow and Watt cast their gaze over miscarriages of justice and unsolved mysteries from the past. The series aired in six episodes, as follows 13 July 1973 The First Two 20 July 1973 Double Event 27 July 1973 Butchery 3 August 1973 Panic 10 August 1973 Suspects 17 August 1973 The Highest in the Land?
- Premiered: 1973
- An in-depth look at the people who were arrested for allegedly committing bizarre crimes.
- Premiered: July 26, 2023
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- 47Detectives Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro investigate the disappearances of eight men in Alaska.
- Premiered: January 14, 2024
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- 48Reyka deals with her past trauma as she raises her child and solves mysteries.
- Premiered: July 25, 2021
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- 49Emergency services try to locate the source of a poisoning in order to prevent further causalities.
- Premiered: June 14, 2020
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- 50A publisher gets a blackmail note just as a reporter is about to break a story that implicates him.
- Premiered: November 13, 2020
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- 51A Provincetown officer battles crime in the underbelly of the popular beach town.
- Premiered: May 17, 2020
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- A mother's investigation of the disappearance of an Alabama teenager has shocking revelations.
- Premiered: August 26, 2021
- 53Reexaminations of cases in which unanswered questions still remain.
- Premiered: May 27, 2019
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- 54A newspaper archivist survives a brutal attack that leaves her in a constantly shifting reality.
- Premiered: April 29, 2022
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- 55Brilliant and vulnerable FBI Agent Clarice Starling returns to the field in 1993.
- Premiered: February 11, 2021
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- 56Young Sigmund Freud and a psychic medium become entangled in an occult conspiracy.
- Premiered: March 15, 2020
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- 57By day, Joe is a cleaner at the police station, by night he is a serial killer.
- Premiered: March 4, 2024
- The case of experienced hiker Meredith Emerson, who went missing on Blood Mountain in Ga.
- Premiered: November 30, 2023
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- True stories of horror in the suburbs, as told by the everyday people who survived them.
- Premiered: October 13, 2023
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- 60Four detectives, in four different time periods, investigate the same murder.
- Premiered: October 19, 2023
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- 61A drama about tracking the 'deviation' of conducting a national death penalty vote for malicious criminals and executing the death penalty.
- Premiered: August 10, 2023
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- The stories behind the rise, fall and murders of some of Hollywood's most promising stars.
- Premiered: January 23, 2023
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- Exploring dumped paramours whose overpowering desire leads them down a path of murder.
- Premiered: July 11, 2019
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- Telling the stories of serious crimes through the interrogation of the accused.
- Premiered: May 19, 2022
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- A fresh look at terrifying tales of paranormal encounters.
- Premiered: September 7, 2020
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- 66Local field agents investigate criminal cases affecting military personnel in the "Big Easy."
- Premiered: September 23, 2014
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- 67Investigating cases in which people convicted of murder claim their confessions were coerced.
- Premiered: September 8, 2017
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- 68A Los Angeles S.W.A.T. lieutenant balances loyalty to the job and to the streets where he grew up.
- Premiered: November 2, 2017
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- 69OSP agents track criminals who threaten national security.
- Premiered: September 22, 2009
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- 70Fauna Hodel investigates her past and discovers a connection to the Black Dahlia murder.
- Premiered: January 27, 2019
- 71A true crime drama about separate LAPD investigations into the murders of two hip-hop icons.
- Premiered: February 27, 2018
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- 72A criminal defense firm is led by a lawyer who fights for wrongfully convicted people.
- Premiered: February 15, 2019
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- A cunning con man steals $2 million.
- Premiered: February 9, 2019
- 74Eccentric Sherlock Holmes solves crime in present-day New York with his companion, Dr. Joan Watson.
- Premiered: September 27, 2012
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- 75A gangster drama located in the streets of post-war Birmingham on the verge of the 1920s.
- Premiered: September 12, 2013
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Evil Twins
Kevin Sidenstricker, Diana Abrecht, Brian St. AugustEvil Twins (Investigation Discovery, 2012) is an American true crime documentary television series. The show follows true-crime mysteries surrounding real-life cases of evil twin archetypes.- Premiered: 2012
- 77DCI Colin Sutton leads the investigation of a young French woman's slaying in London.
- Premiered: January 6, 2019
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- 78Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders committed by a killer who uses the alias ABC.
- Premiered: December 26, 2018
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- 79A former CIA operative gets drawn back into the world of law enforcement by a NYPD detective.
- Premiered: March 18, 2018
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Dark Minds
Jessica Drew, Yasmin Horner, Victoria MorganDark Minds (Discovery, 2012) is an American true crime documentary television series. The show follows American crime author and researcher M. William Phelps working to uncover insight into unsolved murders.- Premiered: 2012
- 81Happily Ever After is a 20-episode Singaporean Chinese drama which is telecast on Singapore's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp TV Channel 8. It made its debut on 6 February 2007 and ended on 5 March 2007. This show is unique as it starts off seeming like a period drama but later evolves into a modern setting. There are many references to figures and stories from Chinese mythology and folk tales such as Cowherd and Weaver Girl, Journey to the West and the Eight Immortals. The first episode drew some controversy as it had a scene in which Wu Gang and Erlang faced off in the nude with their private parts blurred on screen.
- Premiered: 2007
