If you’re an armchair true crime aficionado, August 2025 is your title month. Streaming services are serving up an entire menu of new documentaries and docuseries—bone-chilling unsolved murders, splashy scandals, gripping whodunits, high-stakes courtroom drama, and even stranger-than-fiction hoaxes. Whatever your armchair detective of choice, this month’s selections have something for everyone.
Here’s our top ten list of new true crime shows to watch—because the suspense is more enjoyable when you leave the best for last.
8. Unknown Number: The High School Catfish (Netflix)
Director Skye Borgman (Abducted in Plain Sight, Girl in the Picture) returns with another twisty tale—this one concerning two teenagers who are the target of relentless online harassment. When police begin an investigation, they find a secret that upends the whole case. Part cautionary tale, part psychological thriller, it’s a chilling reminder of what can lurk behind a screen.
7. The Truth About Jussie Smollett (Netflix)
From the makers of The Tinder Swindler comes an in-depth exploration of one of the biggest pop culture controversies of recent years. This documentary revisits the Jussie Smollett case—complete with an interview with Smollett himself—and delves into the surreal intersection of crime, media, and public opinion.
6. The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox (Hulu/Disney+)
Half drama, half true crime retelling, this eight-part miniseries re-examines Amanda Knox’s wrongful conviction for murdering Meredith Kercher. Co-produced by Knox and activist Monica Lewinsky, and starring Grace Van Patten, it’ll strip away sensationalist headlines and concentrate on the human cost of spending years battling for liberty.
5. The Serial Killer’s Apprentice (Max)
This haunting documentary revisits the Dean Corll “Candy Man Killer” case through an unprecedented interview with his one-time sidekick, Elmer Wayne Henley Jr.—his first in over five decades. In an interview with criminologist Dr. Katherine Ramsland, the interview is guaranteed to be a hard-hitting inquiry into the mind of a killer who assisted in those atrocities.
4. The Yogurt Shop Murders (Max)
A chilling cold case is the subject of this four-part series on the 1991 murders of four teenage girls in an Austin, Texas, yogurt shop. With interviews from investigators, surviving family members, and two men formerly wrongly convicted of the crime, it’s a chilling exploration into justice delayed—and perhaps denied.
3. Amy Bradley is Missing (Netflix)
This original Netflix series explores the enigmatic vanishing of Amy Bradley, who went missing on a cruise in 1998 and was never heard from or spotted again. Assembling a mystery that was as perplexing back then as it is today, more than twenty years later, from firsthand testimony from family, friends, and detectives, the film pieces a puzzle together.
2. Trainwreck Anthology: The Real Project X, Balloon Boy, Storm Area 51 (Netflix)
The Trainwreck anthology returns to take apart three out-of-control, bizarre events that took over the internet: an out-of-control party gone wild, a child “stranded” in a runaway balloon, and a plot to invade Area 51. Equal parts strange and unsettling, these events demonstrate that occasionally, the most bizarre crimes are happening right before our eyes.
1. One Night in Idaho: The College Murders (Prime Video)
Topping this list is this captivating four-part docuseries on the 2022 murder of four University of Idaho students. Weaving intimate-to-the-heart conversations with family and loved ones and an investigation into the yet-to-be-solved mysteries, it’s a moving, minute-by-minute analysis of a tragedy that shook a community.
August’s true crime schedule is more than murder and mystery, though—that’s more of a mirror held up to obsession, fear, and the weird truths we discover in darkness. Casual viewer or full-time sleuth, you may want to clear your schedule.