CRIMECON CLUE AWARDS

2025 NOMINEES


TELEVISION

OUTSTANDING DOCUSERIES

WINNER: American Murder: Gabby Petito (Netflix)

Produced by The Cinemart


Hey Beautiful: Anatomy of a Romance Scam (Hulu)

Produced by ABC News Studios and Anchor Entertainment 


Betrayal: A Father's Secret (Hulu)

Produced by Glass Entertainment Group & ABC News Studios


Beauty Queen Killer (Hulu)

Produced by AMPLE Entertainment and ABC News Studios


Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer (Hulu)

Produced by Campfire Studios, in association with Lewellen Pictures



TELEVISION

OUTSTANDING EPISODIC SERIES

WINNER: PD True (Paramount+)

Produced by Bright North Productions


Hostage Rescue (The CW)

Produced by Committee Films


Crime Beat TV (Hulu)

Produced by Corus Entertainment Inc.


Killer Cases (A&E)

Produced by The Law&Crime Network


Prosecuting Evil With Kelly Siegler (Oxygen True Crime)

Produced by Wolf Entertainment, Universal Television Alternative Studio and Magical Elves


TELEVISION

OUTSTANDING SCRIPTED

WINNER: Godfather of Harlem (MGM+)

Produced by ABC Signature Studios


Long Bright River (Peacock)

Produced by Sony Pictures Television, UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, Black Mass Productions, Pascal Pictures and Original Film


Not My Family: The Monique Smith Story (Lifetime)

Produced by Undaunted Content, in association with GroupM Motion Entertainment


PODCAST

OUTSTANDING  DOCUSERIES

WINNER: Who Killed Jennifer Judd?

Produced by ID and Ark Media


True Crime News Presents: American Hustlers

Produced by Frequency Media, in conjunction with True Crime News


IN ESTO PODCAST with N Leigh Hunt

Produced by N Leigh Hunt


Up and Vanished

Produced by Tenderfoot TV


San Miguel Kidnappings

Produced by Audible and Skybound


PODCAST

OUTSTANDING EPISODIC SERIES

WINNER: True Crime News: The Podcast

Produced by Telepictures Productions Inc., in partnership with Warner Bros Entertainment


Courtroom Confidential

Produced by Via Fortuna Media


Crime Fix with Angenette Levy

Produced by Law&Crime


Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime

Produced by Nancy Miller


Betrayal: Weekly

Produced by Glass Podcasts, a division of Glass Entertainment Group, in partnership with iHeartPodcasts


PUBLICATION

BOOK OF THE YEAR

WINNER: Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen (Penguin Random House/Dutton)

Written by Hallie Rubenhold


The My Time to Stand (BenBella Books)

Written by Gypsy-Rose Blanchard, Michele Matrisciani and Melissa Moore


The Scientist and the Serial Killer (Random House)

Written by Lise Olsen


The Atlas of Art Crime: Thefts, Vandalism, and Forgeries (Prestel Publishing)

Written by Laura Evans, PhD


The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, the Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age (Diversion Books)

Written by Annie Reed


The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA (Astra House)

Written by Jesse Katz



DOCUMENTARY

OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY FILM

WINNER: The Girl Who Looked Like Me (ABC)

Produced by ABC News 20/20


The Menendez Brothers (Netflix)

Produced by Campfire Studios


Serial Killer Capital: Los Angeles (Oxygen)

Produced by Jupiter Entertainment


Left for Dead (Tubi)

Produced by Streetcar Entertainment


Sins of the Parents: The Crumbley Trials (Hulu)

Produced by ABC News Studios 


PEOPLE'S CHOICE

CREATOR OF THE YEAR

WINNER: Crime Weekly

Hosts: Derrick Levasseur and Stephanie Harlowe 



Zone 7

Host: Sheryl McCollum


A Date with Dateline 

Hosts: Kimberly Arnold and Katie Mitchell


Profiling Evil

Host: Mike King


True Crime with Kendall Rae

Hosts: Kendall Rae