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18 McMILLION$

This six-part documentary series, which will help launch the Sky Documentaries channel, details how former cop Jerome Jacobson was the mastermind behind a scam which saw $24m (€18m) being stolen from the McDonald’s Monopoly game over 12 years from 1989.

Now TV and Sky Documentaries, coming soon 19 TIGER KING: MURDER, MAYHEM AND MADNESS

The action centres on gun-toting, gay, country singer Joe Exotic (above). He runs a zoo in Oklahoma, with lions and tigers. The seven episodes reveal absurd details of his life and his plan to kill cat sanctuary boss Carole Baskin. Netflix documentary

20 THE CONFESSION KILLER

Henry Lee Lucas was jailed for killing his mother – but how many more victims did he slay? He’s infamous for confessing to 600 murders in 1983, only for many to be proven false. The five-part series sifts truth from fiction. Netflix documentary

21 THE CASE AGAINST ADNAN SYED Acasebroughttoattentionbythe podcastSerial,thisfour-partseries shedsnewlightonAdnanSyed,accused ofkillinghisex-partnerin1999. Sky On Demand and Now TV documentary 22 LEAVING NEVERLAND: MICHAEL JACKSON AND ME

In 2005 when Michael Jackson was tried for child molestation, his young friend Wade Robson came to his defence. But in 2011 Robson said Jackson sexually abused him, then James Safechuck (right, with Jackson) made the same accusation. This two-part series sees the two men reveal their claims of how Jackson had abused them for years. All 4 documentary

23 KILLER INSIDE: THE MIND OF AARON HERNANDEZ

Aaron Hernandez was 23, had just signed a $40m contract with one of American football’s biggest teams and had become a father for the first time when he was arrested for murder in 2013. This three-part series unravels some of the reasons why someone with so much going for him should turn to the dark side. Netflix documentary

24 THE STAIRCASE

This is the twisting story of how Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the foot of the stairs in the North Carolina home she shared with her husband, Michael (both left) in 2001. He was charged with murder and the 13-part series tells of his fight to clear his name.

Netflix documentary 25 THE ACT

Gypsy Rose Blanchard was the tragic girl who, according to her mother Dee Dee (played in this dramatisation of the true story by Patricia Arquette), had leukaemia, asthma, muscular dystrophy and more.

Except Gypsy Rose was healthy, the illnesses made up by Dee Dee to get attention

– so Gypsy

Rose plotted a gruesome revenge. Amazon drama

26 MAKING A MURDERERR

Steven Avery (left) is a Wisconsin man who wrongly spent 18 years in prison for rape. Upon release in 2003, he filed a civil suit that could bankrupt the local police force. But soon he was arrested for murder and the series shows his lawyers’ fight to prove police set him up. Then his nephew changes it all. Netflix documentary