Published Jun 6, 2026, 11:30 AM EDT
Rohan Naahar is a News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he’ll watch anything once. He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.
What a terrific year 2026 has been for true crime, and not just on Netflix, which has become the de facto hub for the genre. HBO Max released a surprise follow-up chapter in The Yogurt Shop Murders, and more recently debuted the first episode of Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult, which holds a rare 100% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. Peacock, on the other hand, delivered The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets. However, Netflix remains the undisputed champion of the true crime genre, for better or worse. The streamer has already had more than half a dozen hits this year, with The Crash — a feature-length examination of horrific events from 2022 — emerging as something of a sensation with more than 50 million views in three weeks.
The Crash is still among the most-watched movies on Netflix worldwide, but now, it must face direct competition from a new title. This one revisits an older case; one that took place three decades before the events that inspired The Crash. In 1992, a young mother was brutally attacked and left for dead in a sprawling public park near her London home. Her two-year-old son bore witness to the entire horrific incident. The police eventually made an arrest, based, in part, on one of the earliest psychological profiles of a criminal created in the United Kingdom. In the film, the profiler even cites The Silence of the Lambs as having captured the public’s imagination only a year prior. The experiment, combined with the police’s decision to honey-trap the primary suspect, backfired.
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The movie in question is The Murder of Rachel Nickell. According to FlixPatrol, it was among the most-watched films on Netflix, both worldwide and domestically, the day after its release on June 4. On the domestic Netflix chart, The Murder of Rachel Nickell climbed to the number two spot, behind the animated movie David. Directed by Lucy Bowden, The Murder of Rachel Nickell doesn’t have an official Rotten Tomatoes score yet, but every review currently listed is positive. Netflix also released a companion narrative series on the same day. Titled The Witness, the three-part series revisits the case from the perspective of the woman’s son. It’s currently the number two show on Netflix both domestically and worldwide. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.