One of the nice things about Hulu is that its catalog is so expansive that it includes all kinds of little curios, such as true crime shows that have previously aired on other broadcasters and streamers that you might not have subscribed or tuned in to. And there are three particularly welcome new crime shows available to stream from this month.

While all three shows focus on true crime and recount often terrifying stories, they each have a different focus. Death By Fame looks into the entertainment industry and the people around it, while Murder Under The Friday Night Lights focuses very much on the deadly rivalries and obsessions in high school football.

Death By Fame season 3

Death By Fame has a simple setup: it focuses on really nasty crimes perpetrated in and around the glamorous entertainment industry, and season 3 brings a typically wholesome selection including a human torso in a dumpster, a bathtub strangulation and a pool drowning, among others.

Let’s be honest: the “Fame” bit of the title is often a bit of a stretch: where earlier seasons did include some well known names such as Run DMC’s Jam Master Jay, few of the people in these later episodes are well-known – but that’s true to life, because crimes in and around the music, TV and movie businesses are often committed by or against people who are chasing fame without necessarily having found it.

The focus on the entertainment industry is smart, because it’s an industry full of sharks, easy marks, very vulnerable people and all kinds of excess. That doesn’t make it very safe, but it does provide lots of stories for Death By Fame to investigate.

Murder Under the Friday Night Lights season 4

The entertainment industry isn’t the only place you’ll find cruel ambition, dangerous rivalries and brutal violence. Season 4 of Murder Under the Friday Night Lights finds it in high school football teams, where dangerous obsessions can lead to brutal acts.

This fourth season of the well established crime series would definitely put you off becoming a cheerleader: many of the episodes here cover cheerleaders turned murderers, cheerleaders gone missing and cheerleaders found dead. It’s almost a relief when you get an episode where the victim is a sports coach rather than a current or former cheerleader.

I Survived a Crime seasons 1 and 2

“When you have a gun in your face, your life flashes in front of your eyes.” In I Survived a Crime, survivors of real-life crimes tell their harrowing tales – not just of the events themselves, but of the long shadows such events can cast over survivors’ lives.

As we’ve come to expect from the true crime genre, I Survived a Crime mixes present-day interviews with actual footage drawn from CCTV, cell phones and other sources. But while many shows prefer to tell just one story per episode, this show covers much more.

In the first episode alone there is a terrifying mob encounter, a crazed gunman and a business dispute turned violent; subsequent episodes feature knife-wielding thieves, jewelry heists, terrifying road trips and more. It’s enough to make you want to stay indoors forever.

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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than twenty books. Her latest, a love letter to music titled Small Town Joy, is on sale now. She is the singer in spectacularly obscure Glaswegian rock band Unquiet Mind.