Mugshots of Jodi Hildebrandt and Ruby Franke in the Netflix documentary Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story

Netflix’s #1 movie is a bone-chilling true crime hit: 3 more must-watch films from the same director

January 6, 2026

Netflix subscribers have an almost insatiable appetite for true crime, and some of Netflix’s most popular documentaries in 2025 had one thing in common: director Skye Borgman.

Her latest, “Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story,” is holding strong at the top of Netflix’s top 10 most-watched list after it arrived shortly before the new year. It’s the kind of depraved, only-in-America scandal we’re obsessed with gaping over, a story of two women behind a parenting YouTube channel exposed for horrifying acts of abuse after one of their children escapes to find help. Like many true crime series, it’s generated plenty of social media chatter.

If you can’t get enough of true crime stories, then you’ve probably already got “Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story” on your watchlist. But if you’ve already seen it and are looking for more salacious scandals to dive into, Borgman’s other true crime documentaries are worth checking out. Here are three to watch after “Evil Influencer” from the undisputed queen of true crime.

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Before Borgman became a staple of Netflix’s true crime doc catalog, she made a name with 2017’s “Abducted in Plain Sight” about the case of Jan Broberg and how abusers often lurk closer to home than you’d think.

When then-12-year-old Jan was abducted in 1974 by close family friend Robert Berchtold, her family and wider community breathed a collective sigh of relief after she was eventually returned safely. Then, Berchtold kidnapped her a second time! How could people have let it happen again? How did everyone miss what was happening right in front of them? Pulling my hair out over these kinds of questions is what kept me glued to the screen watching “Abducted in Plain Sight.”

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2025 was a banner year for Netflix documentaries, and “Unknown Number: The High School Catfish” is one of the more bizarre. Cyberbullying really only blew up after I was in high school (back when you still needed a college email address to get a Facebook account), but even the worst horror stories I’ve heard pale in comparison to what happened to Michigan teenagers Lauryn Licari and Owen McKenny,

After they began dating, the couple was bombarded with unsettling texts from an anonymous sender, a cyberbullying campaign that didn’t stop for more than a year. Authorities began investigating, but nobody could have been prepared for the shocking revelation of who was actually behind such a vicious campaign.

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Serial killer documentaries are a dime a dozen, but with “My Father, the BTK Killer,” Borgman shares a perspective you don’t often get to see. This true crime documentary dives into one of America’s most infamous serial killer cases through the lens of his daughter. In 2005, Kerri Rawson’s life was shattered when authorities came to arrest her father, Dennis Rader, on his lunch break.

The seemingly unassuming man was unmasked as the BTK Killer and ultimately found responsible for at least 10 murders. The film not only revisits the murders that terrorized Wichita, Kansas, but unpacks Rawson’s perspective on how the shadow of her father’s crimes still hangs over her to this day.

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