If The Pike County Murders: A Family Massacre (our verdict: 6/10) left you scrolling for something similar, these 8 picks scratch the same itch. Every one has been watched and reviewed by us — no algorithm filler, just what actually comes next.
The Pike County Murders: A Family Massacre streams on Max; the picks below are spread across the usual suspects, and each review says where to watch.
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Why it's a match: Same documentary and true-crime energy.
A pregnancy, a Texas traffic stop, and one of the most disturbing true-crime cases in recent memory.
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Why it's a match: Same documentary and true-crime energy.
Two best friends killed a third for no reason anyone can live with. Heartbreaking, unnecessary, and a grim lesson in what group chats and live-tweeting can do.
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Why it's a match: Same documentary and true-crime energy.
A six-part documentary that walks the impossible line between cruel teenager and killer. Hard to watch, harder to forget.
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Why it's a match: Same documentary and true-crime energy.
A documentary about the months of spreadsheets, dry runs, and quiet alibis that preceded a single act of violence. Procedurally fascinating.
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Why it's a match: Same documentary and true-crime energy.
Was Karen Read guilty or framed? Our true-crime review breaks down the snowstorm murder trial that turned a college town into a conspiracy battleground.
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Why it's a match: Same documentary and true-crime energy.
A Glasgow pathologist meets a man on Tinder, gets engaged within weeks, and learns he killed a cyclist and buried the body. Then she stays — and helps police bring him down.
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Why it's a match: Same documentary and true-crime energy.
A documentary so full of twists and turns you'll be checking your own inbox by the credits.
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Why it's a match: Same documentary and true-crime energy.
Revisit one of the early 2000s’ most notorious true-crime cases, a tragedy that remains deeply heartbreaking decades later.
Read the review →Start with Maternal Instinct or Friends Like These: The Murder of Skylar Neese. Both sit in the same corner of The Scream as The Pike County Murders: A Family Massacre, and we've reviewed every title on this page so you're not going in blind.
We gave it 6/10. A grim, methodical look at the 2016 murders of eight members of the Rhoden family in Ohio, and the years-long investigation that finally exposed a twisted plot.
We list 8 shows like The Pike County Murders: A Family Massacre: Maternal Instinct, Friends Like These: The Murder of Skylar Neese, Mean Girl Murders, A Plan to Kill, The Trial of Karen Read, Should I Marry a Murderer?, A Toxic Love Story, American Murder: Laci Peterson. Every one has a full Stream & Scream review.
The Trial of Karen Read is our highest-rated pick here with 9/10, streaming on Max. Was Karen Read guilty or framed? Our true-crime review breaks down the snowstorm murder trial that turned a college town into a conspiracy battleground.
The picks on this page are spread across Hulu, Max, Apple TV+, Netflix, while The Pike County Murders: A Family Massacre itself streams on Max. Each review says where to watch.