5 True crime documentaries that put the victims first

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True crime is ‘sexy.’ It’s sensationalized. It’s a montage of black-and-white crime scene photos of a mutilated debutant, archival footage of a serial killer making a shocking confession behind bars, or exclusive interviews with upset parents who don’t understand how their son or daughter could have grown up to commit such heinous acts. It seeks to answer the why and how behind an unspeakably gruesome crime, focusing on the perpetrator’s troubled childhood or providing a timeline of all the possible events that led up to their breaking point. True crime takes our fear of the unknown, of what we don’t understand, and exploits it for all its worth – and we love it. 

But because of true crime’s fascination with serial killers and crime scenes, it often leaves out the most important part: the victim. Some documentaries lean heavily on the killer, conducting countless interviews with friends and family in an attempt to answer the too-late questions, “Did you see it coming? Could this have been prevented?” This forces the victim to take a backseat to their own crime, and for their life to become largely forgotten by the end of the series or film. The following is a list of true crime documentaries that do just the opposite.

The story: When Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky took their film crew down to West Memphis, Arkansas in 1995, they intended to make a cut-and-dry documentary about three guilty teenagers at the center of a high-profile murder case. What they found, however, were three wrongful convictions – and a shaken community desperate for closure.

What makes this doc different: Berlinger and Sinofsky treat the audience like a jury and do their best to present the facts of the case as objectively as possible – so that