[0:00] we the jury in the involved in title
[0:01] action find the defendant or orenthal
[0:04] James Simpson not guilty of a crime of
[0:06] murder welcome to watch Mojo and today
[0:08] we're counting down our picks for the
[0:10] top 20 craziest docu-series you need to
[0:13] binge come here you sexy beast hi little
[0:17] man for this list we're looking at the
[0:19] best episodic TV shows that cover True
[0:21] Crime history and other real life
[0:23] stories what did you make of these shows
[0:25] let us know in the comments below
[0:28] number 20. Waco American apocalypse when
[0:31] Christ reveals himself it's going to be
[0:33] according to the book the whole time we
[0:35] were listening to David we were living
[0:37] and doing God's will there's no shortage
[0:40] of documentaries about the Waco Siege of
[0:42] 1993 but Waco American apocalypse is the
[0:45] definitive Chronicle of the subject
[0:46] suspecting the Branch Davidians an
[0:49] apocalyptic religious Cult of
[0:50] stockpiling illegal weapons the ATF
[0:53] rated their compound in Axtell Texas a
[0:55] fatal gunfight led to a 51-day Siege
[0:58] which ended in an FBI raid and a fire
[1:00] that took the lives of 76 cult members
[1:03] producer says in my ear
[1:06] it's on fire I turned around and I
[1:09] looked oh my God the whole compound had
[1:13] started to catch fire this dock stands
[1:15] out from others thanks to some cinematic
[1:17] visuals never before seen news footage
[1:19] FBI home videos and Stellar interviews
[1:22] with people involved it doesn't take
[1:24] sides but presents the story from a
[1:26] variety of angles and allows viewers to
[1:28] come to their own conclusions all the
[1:30] pain that they went through
[1:32] I can't imagine it but I think about it
[1:36] every day number 19 the confession
[1:38] killer one policeman said he makes
[1:40] Charles Manson sound like Tom Sawyer
[1:43] Henry Lee Lucas is one of the most
[1:44] notorious names in True Crime while in
[1:47] prison for three murders he confessed to
[1:49] having killed 600 people between 1975
[1:52] and 1983. you know you have a member of
[1:55] your family killed
[1:57] you want to find out the perpetrator
[2:00] and so many of them slept better because
[2:03] they felt they had found that besides
[2:07] leading to the controversial 1986 film
[2:09] Henry portrait of a serial killer his
[2:11] confessions persuaded the Texas Rangers
[2:13] to call it a day on a number of hitherto
[2:15] Unsolved cases turns out however that
[2:17] Lucas made them up the confession killer
[2:20] delves into this awful hoax including
[2:22] why it was taken so seriously and the
[2:24] Damage it caused to the reputations of
[2:26] law officials with an IQ of 87 he was
[2:29] able to convince a thousand law
[2:32] enforcement officers that he was guilty
[2:35] of 200 or whatever always crimes it's a
[2:37] fascinating look not at the crimes
[2:39] themselves but at the justice system and
[2:41] failures within it
[2:43] number 18 the family it took a long time
[2:46] before I realized just who the family
[2:49] was and the influence they have had in
[2:53] the leap of our country
[2:55] a secret of Conservative Christian group
[2:57] the family also known as the fellowship
[2:59] holds incredible power in American
[3:01] politics while its members have taken a
[3:04] vow of silence many journalists
[3:06] including executive producer Jeff
[3:08] Charlotte have exposed the
[3:09] organization's inner workings and how it
[3:11] influences political legislation in the
[3:13] United States their headquarters the
[3:15] seat of their power
[3:18] there were Congressman Senators world
[3:20] leaders an invisible organization I've
[3:23] been hiding in plain sight for over 80
[3:25] years it's an intriguing story that
[3:28] dives down some shockingly deep rabbit
[3:30] holes the truth that it reveals are
[3:32] quite disturbing and anyone interested
[3:35] in politics owes it to themselves to
[3:36] check it out when you look at the mafia
[3:38] they also use the same type of
[3:40] organization
[3:41] everything visible
[3:44] is transitory everything invisible is
[3:46] permanent and lasts forever number 17
[3:48] the devil next door the importance of
[3:50] the story to me it's so American
[3:53] everybody came to America for a new life
[3:58] John dementia came here for a new life
[4:03] and several years into it it was turned
[4:06] upside down you never really know who
[4:08] you're living near this documentary
[4:10] follows the highly publicized Trials of
[4:12] John demyonyek an Ohio auto worker
[4:14] demyaniak's story was everywhere in the
[4:17] 1980s when he was misidentified as a
[4:19] notorious Nazi guard nicknamed Ivan the
[4:22] Terrible who'd been stationed at
[4:23] Treblinka extermination campionuk denies
[4:26] all charges claiming he is not Ivan the
[4:29] Terrible and it's all a case of mistaken
[4:31] identity demyonyek was acquitted but
[4:33] accused of being a guard at a different
[4:35] camp sobibor and tried again in the
[4:38] 2000s he was found guilty and sentenced
[4:40] to prison the devil next door presents
[4:42] this captivating tale and captures its
[4:44] Myriad twists and turns in engrossing
[4:46] fashion people
[4:48] didn't appreciate how important this
[4:51] trial was number 16 cheer I can see
[4:55] you're nervous just take it like second
[4:58] section by section
[5:00] because I do I literally like push out
[5:01] my legs to spin it's like push push spin
[5:04] winner of an Emmy for Outstanding
[5:06] unstructured reality program cheer is
[5:09] basically a real life Bring It On only
[5:11] it's far more brutal the docu-series
[5:13] follows the Navarro College Bulldogs
[5:15] cheer team a highly decorated and
[5:17] supremely disciplined cheerleading squad
[5:19] from Texas it is a display of
[5:22] athleticism it's like the best of
[5:24] gymnastics with the best of circus with
[5:27] the best of dance they compete in the
[5:29] National Cheerleading championship and
[5:31] share an intense rivalry with Trinity
[5:33] Valley Community College the series
[5:35] showcases the intense painful and often
[5:38] unbelievable lengths that participants
[5:40] go to to become the greatest
[5:42] cheerleaders in the country we are very
[5:44] very very hungry to win
[5:48] like we have way too much heart and we
[5:50] have come way too far and worked way too
[5:52] hard for any of us to give up while
[5:55] often difficult to watch it's ultimately
[5:57] an uplifting story about pushing through
[5:59] difficulty and finding trust and
[6:01] companionship
[6:02] number 15 the confession tapes people
[6:05] looking right now and lie to you and
[6:08] destroy you and do it on purpose false
[6:11] confessions are actually quite common
[6:13] some of them voluntary as in the case of
[6:15] Henry Lee Lucas and some coerced during
[6:18] police interrogation the confession
[6:20] tapes details this unfortunate reality
[6:22] in often excruciating fashion I have no
[6:25] idea what kind of pressure and what kind
[6:28] of questions need to be put upon someone
[6:30] in order to go from no I really didn't
[6:33] do it to okay yes I did the series spans
[6:37] two seasons and contains multiple
[6:39] stories each episode covers a specific
[6:41] crime and highlights how police
[6:43] techniques led to possible false
[6:45] confessions they told me that I blacked
[6:48] out they said that's why you can't
[6:50] remember but the evidence
[6:52] proves you've done it with we got a hair
[6:55] that matches you and he kept saying that
[6:58] I mean this isn't just going for 30
[7:00] minutes this went on for hours the
[7:02] psychology involved in the
[7:03] interrogations and confessions is
[7:05] fascinating the confession tapes
[7:07] cleverly mixes true crime drama with
[7:09] expert opinions to craft a docu-series
[7:11] that delves deep into the mind
[7:13] number 14 mcmillions there are a fair
[7:17] amount of murders and mysterious deaths
[7:19] on this list macmillions is an outlier
[7:22] in this regard it's just about some good
[7:24] old-fashioned white-collar crime and all
[7:26] I saw was McDonald's Monopoly fraud with
[7:30] a question mark and I go what is that
[7:33] but as the HBO series proves blood
[7:35] needn't to be shed to make an insane
[7:37] story macmillions takes an in-depth look
[7:39] at a long-running case of fraud carried
[7:41] out between 1989 and 2001 by Jerry
[7:44] Jacobson I do remember clearly uh
[7:48] feeling like I was in New York and I was
[7:50] listening to a mobster talking about
[7:52] running his Mafia Empire some Mafia Dawn
[7:55] because that's kind of how this guy came
[7:56] off as the head of security for the
[7:58] company handling McDonald's annual
[7:59] Monopoly game he was able to steal the
[8:02] rarest property pieces and pass them
[8:04] along for a portion of the prize this is
[8:06] a happy day not only is the premise
[8:09] compelling but the way it plays out
[8:10] often veers into the realm of the Absurd
[8:12] thanks to the odd care doctors involved
[8:14] number 13 the pharmacist it's only a
[8:18] matter of time until this one gets
[8:19] turned into a biopic it's that good we
[8:22] were creating addicts all over this
[8:24] country the dude could have did things
[8:26] to stop this but they saw the profits in
[8:29] 1999 disappointed by apathetic police
[8:32] efforts small town pharmacist Dan
[8:34] Schneider took it upon himself to solve
[8:36] the murder of his son who was killed
[8:37] while buying drugs I started noticing a
[8:40] lot of kids around my son's age
[8:43] 18 19 20 25 year old
[8:46] healthy people
[8:48] coming in with high powered opiate
[8:50] prescriptions this Quest For Justice
[8:52] soon evolves however into a battle
[8:54] against the growing Oxycontin epidemic
[8:56] like something out of a crime Thriller
[8:58] this mild-mannered pharmacist uncovers a
[9:00] trail of corruption and profit
[9:01] maximizing principles that goes all the
[9:03] way up to the top implicating big Pharma
[9:05] Dr klinget was putting these people
[9:07] straight to Oxycontin 40 milligrams she
[9:11] never started in that reduced Doses and
[9:13] then worked their way up it's an
[9:15] incredible story sure but the
[9:16] docu-series also highlights the
[9:18] complexities of opioid abuse and the
[9:20] ways in which it ties into questions of
[9:22] poverty substance use disorder and the
[9:24] American Health Care System I'm now an
[9:26] only child
[9:28] so different without him around
[9:30] number 12. Madoff the monster of Wall
[9:33] Street this God was a demon a devil
[9:39] Bernie Madoff has been arrested a
[9:42] prominent figure on Wall Street Bernie
[9:43] Madoff was at one time the chairman of
[9:45] the NASDAQ Stock Exchange he was also a
[9:48] fraudster who ran the largest Ponzi
[9:50] scheme in history the SEC ignored
[9:53] warnings for years how could he fooled
[9:55] so many people for so long
[9:57] what happened was so avoidable and so
[10:01] many people enabled it to happen because
[10:03] of greed then in December 2008 Madoff
[10:06] confessed to his sons Finance can be a
[10:09] dry subject but this documentary is more
[10:11] sprightly than snoozy unpacking the
[10:13] complex subject matter to tell a
[10:15] fast-paced thriller it also aims wider
[10:18] and examines larger questions about the
[10:19] financial industry and the role of greed
[10:21] within it the only people who can
[10:24] deceive you completely are people you
[10:26] trust completely
[10:29] in the price of trusting anyone is that
[10:33] they can betray you like that number 11.
[10:36] conversations with a killer the Ted
[10:37] Bundy tapes he insisted that he was
[10:41] innocent
[10:42] I wanted him to tell me who was he
[10:46] Netflix has found great success with
[10:48] their conversations with a killer series
[10:49] but the Ted Bundy iteration has to be
[10:51] the most compelling of them all
[10:53] featuring archival footage and extensive
[10:55] interviews the documentary covers the
[10:58] Wild and wicked story of the infamous
[10:59] serial killer it highlights Bundy's most
[11:01] heinous crimes including his murderous
[11:04] Rampage at Akai Omega sorority house in
[11:06] 1978. the main pull of this dock are the
[11:09] words of Bundy himself which mostly come
[11:11] in the form of a death row interview
[11:13] with Stephen Michaud feeling cheated
[11:15] wrong insecure
[11:18] sides upon young attractive women being
[11:21] is victim number 10 making a murderer
[11:25] this was arguably Netflix's first mega
[11:28] hit of a true crime docu-series
[11:29] inspiring countless imitators and I mean
[11:32] knowing her I mean what are your
[11:34] feelings for her parents and
[11:36] they must be going through hell making a
[11:38] murderer follows the story of Steven
[11:40] Avery a man who was wrongfully convicted
[11:42] of attempted murder and sexual assault
[11:44] it appears that an attempt
[11:46] was made
[11:48] to dispose of a body he served 18 years
[11:51] for a crime he didn't commit then just
[11:53] two years after his release with his
[11:55] civil case pending against the county to
[11:56] the tune of 36 million dollars Avery
[11:59] once again found himself under arrest
[12:01] this time for murder
[12:07] across the first season of the series
[12:09] we're presented with a riveting tale of
[12:11] questionable police work and an alleged
[12:13] frame-up the second season doesn't pack
[12:15] quite the same punch but is a worthy
[12:18] investigation of the U.S legal system
[12:20] they got our family all torrent apart
[12:25] it's not right number nine wormwood the
[12:28] CIA ran a covert mind control operation
[12:31] called project MK Ultra I ran into a
[12:33] couple of guys one who just left the CIA
[12:35] who said if you think Watergate
[12:36] something he's in effect he said find
[12:39] out what we've been doing that sentence
[12:40] might sound like something from a
[12:41] conspiracy theory Reddit thread comic
[12:43] book or sci-fi flick but it is now a
[12:46] matter of public record it confirms
[12:48] there was domestic spying on American
[12:50] civilians unlawful wiretaps the opening
[12:53] of private mail even a drug testing
[12:55] program involving the use of LSD against
[12:58] unsuspecting Persons Of course before it
[13:01] came to the attention of the masses the
[13:02] vast majority of the documentation was
[13:04] destroyed by order of then CIA director
[13:06] Richard Helms and so decades later even
[13:09] armed with the surviving Declassified
[13:10] documents we are still putting together
[13:12] the pieces you are in Fort Dietrich
[13:15] where some 600 military and civilian
[13:17] scientists worked together in research
[13:19] at the Army biological Laboratories
[13:22] to protect this country against a
[13:25] biological attack in this six-part
[13:26] mini-series documentary filmmaker Errol
[13:29] Morris explores the cia's use of LSD the
[13:31] suspicious death of scientist Eric Olson
[13:33] and the enduring mystery of MK Ultra
[13:35] number eight the vowel ESP Nexium
[13:40] is a methodology
[13:43] that allows people to optimize their
[13:49] experience and behavior this tantalizing
[13:52] HBO documentary covers one of the
[13:54] scariest Revelations of the 2010s Nexium
[13:57] was supposedly a corporation that hosted
[13:59] self-help seminars in reality it was a
[14:02] vicious cult led by an abuser and human
[14:04] trafficker named Keith Ranieri The Vow
[14:07] covers the barbarous story of Nexium and
[14:09] features dramatic interviews with past
[14:11] members everything was designed to
[14:14] protect him I got played and I helped
[14:17] this guy build whatever he was building
[14:18] around him and I was a part of that they
[14:21] delve into the cult's inner workings and
[14:23] how people were drawn in it also details
[14:26] how Smallville Star Allison Mack joined
[14:28] Nexium and became a powerful and
[14:30] sadistic subordinate of renaries The Vow
[14:32] is equal parts harrowing and gripping
[14:34] but it's also a sad story about people
[14:36] who were searching for happiness and
[14:38] instead were exploited by the cult
[14:40] number seven don't f with cats hunting
[14:44] an internet killer murder meet the
[14:46] internet age there's no mystery in this
[14:48] three-part Netflix original but that
[14:50] doesn't make it any less compelling
[14:51] bingeable or disturbing and so I was on
[14:54] Facebook one day and I found a post
[14:58] a lot of people have been feverishly
[15:00] posting about a video Don't with cats
[15:02] follows the rise to infamy of convicted
[15:04] murderer Luca magnata from the
[15:06] perspective of a community of online
[15:07] sleuths now it doesn't necessarily mean
[15:09] that the person didn't buy a pack of
[15:11] cigarettes and then hop on a plane to
[15:13] Paris or you know Berlin but I knew they
[15:17] were North American cigarettes magnata
[15:18] filmed himself killing a university
[15:19] student named Jin Lin and posted it
[15:22] online subsequently becoming one of the
[15:24] most Wanted men in the world hi my name
[15:26] is Luca make nod is my last name
[15:30] m-a-g-n-o-t-t-a before that however he's
[15:32] thought to have been behind a video
[15:33] involving the torture and killing of two
[15:35] kittens that's the video that rallied an
[15:38] internet community and this documentary
[15:40] is the story of how they tried to bring
[15:41] him to Justice before he could kill
[15:43] again that looks exactly like the Petro
[15:46] Canada gas station that I see in the
[15:48] photo of Luca and guess what
[15:51] that large gray cement apartment
[15:54] building is directly behind it number
[15:56] six Evil Genius the true story of
[15:59] America's most diabolical bank heist
[16:01] watch this document series at your own
[16:03] risk you may never be able to enjoy
[16:05] Pizza quite like you did before or feel
[16:07] comfortable going to the bank this
[16:09] deadly robbery has to be one of the
[16:11] strangest crimes in American history
[16:13] Evil Genius tells the convoluted story
[16:15] of Brian Wells a man who after
[16:17] completing a bank heist was killed when
[16:19] the explosive device on the collar
[16:20] around his neck went off we are hopeful
[16:22] that by showing a picture of the device
[16:26] someone may have Wrecking or may
[16:29] recognize
[16:30] the instrument it's
[16:32] like a comic book or the saw franchise
[16:34] though the nature of Well's death is
[16:36] indeed morbid it's just one small piece
[16:38] of a complicated puzzle that will have
[16:40] you on the edge of your seat the
[16:42] Marjorie steel
[16:44] d-i-e-h-l okay and Mark your deal is at
[16:47] that residence now yes who is she to you
[16:49] sir
[16:50] uh I'll give you guys my story later on
[16:53] number five the Jinx the life and depths
[16:57] of Robert Durst the True Crime genre is
[16:59] full of stories about people who went to
[17:01] jail for crimes they allegedly did not
[17:02] commit less common however are Tales of
[17:05] suspected murderers who walk free
[17:07] despite being linked to the deaths of
[17:09] multiple people the guy looks like a
[17:11] librarian
[17:13] he doesn't look like a a person that
[17:16] would dismember a human being but
[17:18] getting such an individual to agree to
[17:20] be interviewed for a docu-series that's
[17:22] almost unheard of why would a guy with
[17:25] 520 in his pocket and thirty seven
[17:28] thousand dollars in the trunk walk into
[17:30] a Wegmans and steal a sandwich the guy
[17:35] is crying out to be arrested isn't he
[17:37] the Jinx explores The Disappearance of
[17:39] Robert durst's wife Kathy as well as the
[17:41] murders of his friend Susan Berman and
[17:43] neighbor Morris black Durst was
[17:45] considered a suspect in all three I am
[17:48] complicit and Kathy's not being here we
[17:51] won't give away the ending but unlike so
[17:53] many docu-series of its kind this story
[17:56] actually has a relatively satisfying
[17:57] conclusion with no shortage of twists
[18:00] along the way number four Wild Wild
[18:03] Country who's ready to take a trip down
[18:05] the rabbit hole American history is made
[18:07] up of all manner of odd characters and
[18:09] strange chapters but few can hold a
[18:11] candle to that of the rajnish param
[18:13] community now there are two ways
[18:16] either repress sex as it has been done
[18:19] by all the so-called religious
[18:21] traditions of the world are
[18:24] transformative this controversial group
[18:26] led by Guru bhagwan Shri rajnish left
[18:29] India in the 1980s and settled in Wasco
[18:32] County Oregon though the community
[18:33] seemed to center around sexual
[18:34] Liberation meditation and dancing
[18:36] rajnish was equally known for his love
[18:38] of material wealth beautiful city
[18:41] example for the universe as the story
[18:43] progresses the dream soon begins to
[18:45] unravel as tensions rise between
[18:47] rajneeshpuram and the locals of Wasco
[18:49] County Sheila former Secretary of the
[18:51] bhagwan rajneesh faces charges of Fraud
[18:54] and attempted murder in Oregon
[18:56] bioterrorism a Rolls-Royce collection
[18:58] power struggles and questions of
[19:00] constitutional Freedom this documentary
[19:03] has got it all when you have a basically
[19:05] unstable personality coupled with
[19:07] tremendous power over enormous numbers
[19:09] of people you have a potentially lethal
[19:12] Situation Number Three Tiger King Wild
[19:15] Wild Country might have the word wild in
[19:17] its title twice but when it comes to
[19:19] docu-series it simply doesn't get any
[19:21] more wild than Tiger King gummy you sexy
[19:24] beast hi little man this explosively
[19:28] popular Netflix original series broke
[19:30] the internet in March of 2020 becoming a
[19:32] true cultural phenomenon it's about big
[19:35] cat collectors breeders and
[19:36] conservationists specifically it focuses
[19:39] on the bitter feud between Joe Exotic
[19:41] and Carol Baskin two figures on opposing
[19:43] sides of the big cat debate Carol
[19:45] baskin's third husband and they can't
[19:47] find his body okay we believe that she
[19:49] fed him to the Tigers both are wildly
[19:51] eccentric individuals and as filmmakers
[19:54] Eric good and Rebecca chaklin unravel
[19:55] this complex narrative the twists and
[19:57] shocking reveals come fast and heavy but
[20:00] honestly no plot summary can prepare you
[20:02] for the insanity of Tiger King you just
[20:04] have to watch it for yourself about an
[20:06] hour ago we had an incident where one of
[20:08] the employees stuck their arm through
[20:09] the cage and the tiger tore her arm off
[20:12] I can give you your money back or I can
[20:15] give you a rain check number two OJ
[20:18] America we have jury in the above and
[20:20] title action
[20:21] pendant or
[20:23] orenthal James Simpson not guilty of a
[20:25] crime of murder in violation of penal
[20:27] Colt section 187 a a felony upon Nicole
[20:30] Brown Simpson one of the finest
[20:32] documentaries of the 2010s OJ made in
[20:35] America received a Peabody and the
[20:37] Academy Award for best documentary it is
[20:39] a five-part epic spanning nearly eight
[20:42] hours in length detailing in highly
[20:44] specific fashion the life of O.J Simpson
[20:46] it covers all there is to cover from
[20:49] Simpson's early life to his
[20:50] record-breaking football career to his
[20:52] Infamous murder trial and Las Vegas
[20:53] robbery if you woke up and heard that
[20:56] O.J Simpson is back in the news and
[20:58] under arrest rest assured it's not
[21:00] Groundhog Day this time though he's in a
[21:03] jail cell in Las Vegas after a
[21:05] confrontation apparently caught on tape
[21:08] but it's not just a true crime series
[21:09] about one of the most famous cases in
[21:11] modern history as the title made in
[21:13] America suggests the documentary also
[21:16] examines the American dream and
[21:18] systematic issues in American society
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[21:35] number one the staircase though perhaps
[21:39] best known today as a Netflix original
[21:40] the first season of this docu-series was
[21:43] released way back in 2004 under the
[21:45] French title Soup song meaning suspicion
[21:49] she's still breathing what kind of
[21:52] accidents as fans of the True Crime
[21:54] genre know all too well these cases
[21:56] often span decades and so subsequent
[21:59] episodes were released in 2013 and 2018
[22:01] respectively the staircase follows the
[22:04] trial of Michael Peterson an American
[22:05] novelist convicted of killing his wife
[22:07] Kathleen the name of the series is taken
[22:10] from a staircase which Peterson claims
[22:11] took his wife's life the forensic
[22:13] evidence however suggests a different
[22:15] cause of death it just never occurred to
[22:17] Michael Peterson that people wouldn't
[22:19] believe him when he said she fell down
[22:21] the stairs
[22:22] that's really what this is all about the
[22:24] end result is a true crime Thriller
[22:25] that's inspired countless theories and
[22:27] which people are still revisiting years
[22:29] later
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[22:38] foreign
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