The best true crime TV and movies of 2021 on Netflix and Hulu
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A crime scene photo from the art robbery at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, as seen in the Netflix documentary "This Is a Robbery."Netflix/Courtesy
They say crime doesn't pay, but for TV and film producers, it most certainly does.
True crime has become one of the most popular genres in entertainment in the past few years, with hundreds of docuseries and films that recount grisly historical murders or mysterious disappearances. In 2019, SFGATE wrote a roundup of our old favorites, but with the boom in original programming on streaming services, 2021 has been a banner year for on-screen investigations of Sasquatch murders and art heists.