Where to watch these true-crime documentaries that go far beyond the headlines

"One Night in Idaho: The College Murders"
The four-part Amazon Prime docuseries examines the deaths of four University of Idaho students who were fatally stabbed on Nov. 13, 2022. The series includes interviews with families and friends of the victims.

"American Manhunt: O.J. Simpson"
Thirty years after “the trial of the century” began, Netflix's “American Manhunt: O.J. Simpson” docuseries revisits the barbarous stabbing murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. O.J. Simpson, who died in 2024 after battling prostate cancer, was acquitted of the June 12, 1994, killings at Brown Simpson's Los Angeles home in a verdict that shocked the world.

"American Murder: Gabby Petito"
The Netflix series attempts to unravel the mystery of what happened that summer in 2021 when Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie took a cross-country road trip. Laundrie shockingly returned to his parents’ Florida home alone. Weeks later authorities discovered Petito’s body near Grand Teton National Park and a coroner ruled her death a homicide. Laundrie died by suicide, and the story of what actually happened died with him.

"Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke"
The Hulu docuseries sheds light on the events leading up to the arrest of former mommy vlogger Ruby Franke and her business partner on charges of second-degree aggravated child abuse in Utah in September 2023. The three-part docuseries features unseen footage and exclusive interviews with ex-husband Kevin Franke and the couple's oldest children, Shari Franke and Chad Franke.

"Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown"
The National Geographic docuseries now streaming on Hulu examines the 1978 Jonestown massacre during which more than 900 members of Jim Jones' cult-like religious movement died. In 1974, Jones moved to an area of Guyana that he dubbed Jonestown, which he promoted as an idealistic place to run his church. The series features interviews with Jonestown survivors, journalists who covered the journey and Jones’ son, Stephan, once a resident of Jonestown.

"Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey?"
This Netflix docuseries doesn’t give us the answer we’ve been searching for in the decades since JonBenét Ramsey's death in 1996. But what the three-hour docuseries does extraordinarily well is show how wrong it was to suspect the child’s parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, or brother, Burke, who was just 9 at the time of his sister’s death.

"The Menendez Brothers"
Thirty-five years after their crimes, Erik and Lyle Menendez, the pair of infamous siblings who shockingly killed their parents in the family's sprawling Beverly Hills mansion, shed new light on their case in the Netflix documentary. The brothers get their turn to speak via recorded phone calls from the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. Prosecutors in the televised 1993 trial asserted that Lyle, 21 at the time of the murders, and Erik, then 18, shot José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez for the couple’s $14 million fortune. But Erik and Lyle claim they feared for their lives and suffered physical, sexual and emotional abuse at the hands of their father.