Ep. - 1496 - 10 BEST TRUE CRIME DOCUMENTARIES OF 2025
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.4 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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A countdown and discussion of the standout true crime documentaries released or streaming this year, from gripping investigations to haunting narratives that kept viewers talking.
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| 0:00.0 | The amazing Kate Casey. |
| 0:04.3 | Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with KKC. |
| 0:07.9 | For today's episode, I'm going to count down what I believe were the 10 best true crime documentaries of 2025. |
| 0:14.8 | I've covered every single one of these series, and I went straight to the source. |
| 0:18.7 | I interviewed the filmmakers who made them, and in several cases, the investigators, |
| 0:23.0 | experts, survivors, |
| 0:24.9 | and families closest to what happened. |
| 0:27.7 | These stories range from infamous cases |
| 0:29.7 | that you think you already know |
| 0:31.0 | to ones maybe you've never heard of. |
| 0:33.9 | And the common thread is this. |
| 0:35.4 | Each documentary left me with at least one moment that it could not |
| 0:39.0 | shake. I hope that you share this list. Go over to my Substack, where I will have all 10 of these |
| 0:45.1 | interviews that accompany these 10 choices. Make sure you go to Katek.sde.com to get it. |
| 0:52.5 | And then if you go to my bonus podcast, I'll give you more behind-the-scenes |
| 0:55.3 | stories about all 10. You can find them on Apple podcast and on Patreon, p-at-R-E-O-N.com |
| 1:03.1 | backslash KKC. So the first of my list is called the Fox Hollow Murders Playground |
| 1:09.8 | of a serial killer. This is on Hulu. It's four |
| 1:13.5 | episodes. And every time that I mention this one, I brace people for it because this is unlike any |
| 1:19.9 | other true crime talk. Herb Baummeister is one of the most prolific serial killers that you have |
| 1:26.1 | probably never even heard of. |
| 1:28.2 | He was a businessman who owned a string of successful thrift stores, |
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