Manipulation. Murder. Mystery. Yes, you guessed it right, were talking about true crime documentaries on Netflix today. 

Even though we are left with a terrifying sense of fear after watching these documentaries, we just can’t seem to get enough of them. 

Here are some true crime documentaries that will make you lock your doors, shut your curtains and always be on your guard.  

1. American Murder: The Family Next Door

A mother expecting her third child and her two beautiful daughters disappear one day. Later, Chris Watts, the husband of Shanann Watts, and father of 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste, confesses to the killings. 

Find out why he would do such and thing and watch how he tried to cover up the murders. 

2. Murder Among The Mormons 

This mini-series on Netflix follows Mark Hofmann, a victim turned suspect, and his journey from forging documents to causing the Salt Lake City pipe bombings in 1985 that killed two people and injured a third, himself. 

Find out more about this Mormon mystery that rattled the world.

3. Strong Island

William Ford Jr was a 24-year-old African American teacher in New York who was killed by a 19-year-old white chop shop mechanic in 1992. 

Now his brother, Yance Ford, a filmmaker, goes on a heart wrecking personal journey to show how racism and prejudice played starring roles in the murder investigation and trial. 

4. Don't F**k With Cats: Hunting An Internet Killer

This documentary follows an army of online warriors who devoted themselves to finding and getting Lucas Magnotta a messed up, attention seeker who posted videos of himself doing unspeakable things to kitten and later murdering Lin Jun, a 33-year-old student from China, convicted. 

Watch how these online warriors started their detailed investigation and how they helped save the world from this Internet Killer. 

5. Evil Genius: The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist

A man walked into a bank, nope this is not a joke. He walked into a bank with a bomb dangling from his neck and passed a note to the teller demanding money. When the police cornered him, he said he was forced to do it. 

What actually happened? Who was the evil genius behind this bank heist? 

6. Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez

Aaron Hernandez, a football-star turned-convicted killer of his fiancé’s sister’s boyfriend. This docuseries delves into his life, his career, his arrest and conviction by interviewing his friends, players and others close to him. 

Was he just a young man who mixed with the wrong crowd or was it his severe concussion that turned him into a killer? 

7. Abducted in Plain Sight

Filled with twists and turns, this true crime documentary is like driving up the old road to Cameron Highlands. 

This tale involves manipulation and deception that eventually let to Jan Broberg, an Idaho teenager being abducted not once but TWICE by her neighbor Robert Berchtold. 

Watch how this man manipulated Jan Broberg and even her entire family – spoiler alert: an alien abduction is involved.