Best True Crime Documentaries to Watch on Peacock
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- Peacock offers a wide range of true‑crime documentaries covering notorious killers, high‑profile trials, missing‑person cases, and criminal empires.
- Many titles feature exclusive inRead More
- Peacock offers a wide range of true‑crime documentaries covering notorious killers, high‑profile trials, missing‑person cases, and criminal empires.
- Many titles feature exclusive interviews, never‑before‑heard audio, and firsthand accounts that provide deeper insight into both victims and perpetrators.
- The collection includes both new investigative series and in‑depth retrospectives that explore motives, societal impact, and unresolved mysteries.
If you're addicted to all things true crime, then you need to dive into the Peacock true crime library which is loaded with incredible stories and investigations ripped from the headlines. There are award-winning series and documentaries covering past cases, as well as brand-new explorations of infamous cases and killers.
Here’s a quick list of Peacock's true crime titles that you should add to your streaming queue: The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets, The Idaho Student Murders, Making Manson, Richard Ramirez: The Night Stalker Tapes, John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise, The Murder of Gabby Petito: Truth, Lies and Social Media and many more below.
Check out some of the very best in true crime shows and documentaries on Peacock below.
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The best true crime documentaries on Peacock
The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets
This Peacock Original docuseries pulls viewers into the shocking case of Rex Heuermann, the man charged with the infamous Gilgo Beach murders. The three-part series gives an unprecedented look inside Heuermann’s home life, featuring candid interviews with his family, friends, and neighbors as they come to terms with the possibility that a serial killer was living among them.
Stream The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets on Peacock.
The Idaho Student Murders
This feature documentary explores the pre-trial case against Bryan Kohberger, the criminology graduate student accused (and now convicted) of the murders of four University of Idaho students. Exclusive, never-before-seen interviews with Kaylee Goncalves’s brother and other close friends of the victims bring heart-wrenching clarity and empathy to the victims' lives while experts examine the evidence and possible motivations of the crime.
Stream The Idaho Student Murders on Peacock.
Making Manson
This three-part Peacock Original docuseries uncovers new revelations from Charles Manson’s own words, offering the most comprehensive Manson portrait yet on film or television. Featuring never-before-heard audio of Manson culled from more than 100 hours of intimate conversations recorded over 20 years up until his death in 2017, the series offers new details about Manson’s past and surprising insights into his worldview.
Stream Making Manson on Peacock.
Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story
Directed by Jamila Wignot, the three-part Peacock Original docuseries offers an astonishing investigative look into the life and career of Joe Francis, a man whose name and multi-million-dollar Girls Gone Wild empire were inescapable in the early 2000s. The docuseries includes Francis’ first in-depth, in-person interview with a journalist in almost a decade, drawn from Scaachi Koul’s on-the-record conversation at his Mexican compound, which spanned nearly nine hours, powerful personal accounts from 11 former employees and survivors, and never-before-broadcast video and audio recordings.
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Aaron Hernandez Uncovered
Aaron Hernandez seemingly had it all, playing for the New England Patriots for three seasons until he was arrested and convicted of the murder of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. He was later accused of another double homicide before his life came to an end. This two-part special explores Hernandez's "secret double life" through previously-unseen interviews, eyewitness accounts, uncovered testimony, and more.
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Richard Ramirez: The Night Stalker Tapes
The two-part docuseries uses death row audio interviews with Ramirez as well as audio and video interviews with his family, friends, and wife, most of which have never been heard before, to explore how a perfect storm of child abuse and twisted boyhood influences enabled a troubled young man from El Paso, Texas, to become the infamous Night Stalker. These tapes offer an unsettling and thought-provoking look into the mind of a brutal serial killer and, by the end of the series, will provide significant findings to the age-old question of whether a monster is born, created, or both.
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The Real Murders of Atlanta
This series is an exploration of horrifying murder cases in Atlanta that highlight the boundaries between gentrified Southern dynasties and the flashy nouveau riche.
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Casey Anthony: Where the Truth Lies
Considered one of the first “trials of the century,” the Casey Anthony case polarized conversation in living rooms across America. There have been several movies and documentaries made to fill in the gaps, and yet, the woman at the center of it all remains the biggest mystery. In this three-part original docuseries, Casey Anthony finally tells her story in her own words, offering a new perspective on the untimely death of her two-year-old daughter Caylee.
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John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise
This Peacock Original tells the chilling story of one of the world’s most notorious serial killers told through the words of John Wayne Gacy, “The Killer Clown,” himself, alongside those who were forever changed by his unspeakable deeds in the Chicagoland area during the 1970s, and others who believe that the full truth about the case remains concealed to this day. Featuring exclusive footage and voices, the series unfolds across six episodes and explores why, more than 40 years after Gacy’s crimes were discovered, the case continues to grab headlines.
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Cocaine Bear: The True Story
In the hit Hollywood movie Cocaine Bear (also streaming on Peacock) a huge bag full of cocaine drops out of the sky into the woods of North Georgia and is eaten by a black bear, who goes on an epic rampage. It all seems like fantasy, but it's actually based on a true story that's just as bizarre as the movie plot, involving drug cartels, murder, mayhem and a Lexington Kentucky blueblood. This documentary features interviews with those closest to the case, including the former sheriff who was one of the first on the scene, and the special agent whose team found the Cocaine Bear.
Watch Cocaine Bear: The True Story on Peacock.
I Love You, You Hate Me
This documentary chronicles the spectacular rise of Barney the Dinosaur, the furious backlash against the character, and what it says about the human need to hate. From Barney-bashing to frat parties to homicidal video games, something in American society broke into a million pieces, and it's never been put together again… or is this just who we were all along?
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The Murder of Gabby Petito: Truth, Lies and Social Media
The disappearance of 22-year-old video blogger Gabby Petito gripped America and caused the internet and social media to go into a frenzy. This definitive documentary reveals the truth behind the mass of global speculation and online theories. In exclusive interviews, Gabby’s own family sheds new light on the real Gabby Petito, while experts and journalists who covered the case tell the whole story in forensic detail.
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Epstein’s Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell
This three-hour Peacock Original documentary investigates the mysterious world of Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite and once heiress to the Maxwell fortune, whose life takes a sordid downturn when she meets Jeffrey Epstein, a serial sex offender. A glimpse into the complicated story of power, sex, and money that leads to her arrest and trial.
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Amber: The Girl Behind the Alert
Most people know about the Amber Alert. In this documentary, discover the true story behind nine-year-old Amber Hagerman's kidnapping and a murder mystery that remains unsolved after 27 years. Despite thousands of leads Amber’s killer remains at large, but her legacy lives on. Lessons learned from her case inspired the alert system that could have saved Amber's life but instead has saved more than a thousand children. Amber's mother gives her final interview and shares chilling documentary footage that captured Amber's final days.
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The Battle for Justina Pelletier
This four-part Peacock Original docuseries explores the harrowing true story of a 14-year-old-girl who entered Boston Children’s Hospital with a mysterious set of symptoms. Quickly, suspicions turned toward the parents and Justina became a ward of the state. The family called it “medical kidnapping.” The hospital accused the parents of medical child abuse, aka “Munchausen syndrome by proxy.” The battle between the two sides hurled the family into a national debate about parental rights, child protections, and the gray areas in between.
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Married to El Chapo: Emma Coronel Speaks
In this rare and deeply personal interview, Emma Coronel — the wife of infamous cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán — breaks her silence about life inside one of the world’s most notorious criminal empires. Swept into El Chapo’s orbit at just 17, Coronel looks back on the seduction, danger, and loyalty that defined their tumultuous marriage. She speaks candidly about the crimes that shadowed their relationship, her own prison sentence, and the complicated reckoning she now faces as she confronts her role in his legacy.
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