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It’s Official: The Best True Crime Documentary Of Them All

Are you surprised by the winner?

By Kathryn Rubino on April 22, 2019 1:47 pm

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We’ve watched a lot of true crime documentaries since Above the Law’s March Madness bracket began on March 21st in an attempt to suss out the very best of the genre. Of course, as with any competition, it means we’ve had to say goodbye to some of our favorites along the way. Like Amanda Knox, the documentary that gave us an inside look at Knox’s international legal woes, or Lorena, which looks at the infamous 90s figure with the much more sensitive modern lens, or Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, an absolutely gutting look about how crime devastated one family.

But our finals pitted two classics against one another: The Jinx, about the suspicious deaths that seem to follow Robert Durst around and Abducted in Plain Sight, the wild story of the kidnapping of Jan Broberg Felt. It was a close battle, but the pure insanity of Abducted in Plain Sight has won the day.

Congrats to our winner, and thanks to everyone who voted!

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headshotKathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, and host of The Jabot podcast. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter (@Kathryn1).