True Crime Documentaries You Can’t Miss: Insider Picks with Kate Casey of Reality Life with Kate Casey

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Not Your Mom Media

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re joined by the one and only Kate Casey from Reality Life with Kate Casey! Kate is a true crime enthusiast and reality TV queen, and she’s here to share her top documentary recommendations you won’t want to miss.

From Amanda Knox to Captive Audience, Kate takes us through the twists and turns of these captivating real-life stories. She also dives into the bizarre world of cults, with picks like Wild Wild Country and The Keepers. Get ready for mind-blowing true crime narratives, from a mysterious baby swap to shocking family secrets.

We chat about documentaries that made a huge impact, including The Jinx, The Devil Next Door, and Golden Greed — and trust us, you’ll want to add these to your watchlist. Kate also shares her thoughts on some of the most intense documentaries out there, while Mandy and Melissa get sucked into the conversation, offering their own recommendations along the way.

Don’t forget to check out Kate’s podcast, Reality Life with Kate Casey, where she shares expert reviews on unscripted TV and interviews guests you won’t find anywhere else!

Tune in for:

🎥 Kate’s top documentary picks, including The Keepers, Icarus, and The Lost Sons
💔 Heart-wrenching stories like the kidnapping of Steven Stainer and the unsolved case of Sister Kathy
👀 Reality TV insights and behind-the-scenes moments with top producers
🎙️ A candid conversation with Kate about her unique career in unscripted TV

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0:00.0	Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa.
0:16.6	Hi, Melissa. I'm Mandy. How are you? I'm doing well. How are you? I am good. Big day over here today.
0:23.3	We've had a lot of big days lately. Okay, but don't downgrade the big day we're having today.
0:29.0	Oh, yeah. Nothing compares to this big day. Yeah. I said that that came out much worse than I intended.
0:35.8	You're good. You're good. We are here today with the lovely Kate
0:39.7	Casey. Kate, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for joining me the other day on my podcast
0:45.1	and great to be with you today. Absolutely. It's reality life with Kate Casey, right?
0:49.5	Mm-hmm. Okay. I'm subscribed. I've been subscribed forever. You've always had the best guest. You get people, I don't even know how some people agree to come on your show. Not in a bad way, but I'm like, you shouldn't open your mouth anymore. You love is blind and you said too much. No, it's not true. It is. But if you want to tell people a little about your show and we'll get into it. I love unscripted TV,
1:11.9	real people, real stories, couldn't be more bored with like a scripted television show. I was somebody
1:17.5	that was like obsessed with the real world and it spills over into documentaries. I mean, you name
1:24.6	it. I've probably watched it. So my show is in really, it's a daily podcast and I feature interviews with the talent, the directors, and the executive producers of unscripted TV. So that runs the gamut of reality shows to documentaries and documentary series. And Mondays, I tell you what to watch. Tuesday through Friday, I do interviews. And then Saturday,
1:45.0	I have a Saturday series where I interview people who have like really cool personal stories.
1:49.1	Like last week I had a woman whose mother was murdered while she was 14 months old. Her sister was
1:56.5	four months old. They were sleeping in their cribs. The next day, they're crying all morning, and the neighbors
2:02.2	notice, and they do a well check. And when the police officers got there, their mother had been
2:07.4	murdered. Oh, my gosh. A year later, her estranged husband, their father, was arrested. He was convicted
2:14.8	of the murders. And five years later, he was exonerated.
2:18.6	No. When they found her body, there were bite marks on her breast, and they had odontologists that
2:25.2	confirmed 11 of them that said it wasn't a match, the bite marks to the estranged husband.
2:30.8	But he had a crappy lawyer who was a real drunk, and there was a shoddy investigation, so he ended up being exonerated. But he had a crappy lawyer who was a real drunk and there was a shoddy investigation.
2:35.8	So he ended up being exonerated. But the case is still unsolved. And so she listens to my show and I
2:42.0	interviewed her about what is that like when you grow up and the story is your mother was murdered,
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