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For all you crime documentary binge-watchers and unsolved-case-podcast playing people, listen up: We’re sure you’re familiar with the classic Jeffrey Dahmer and Black Dahlia’s and Cecil Hotel stories.

But have you noticed most of the well-known true crimes don’t have a Black face at the center of it? How many Black true crime stories do you know? Name them. As you fall down the true-crime rabbit hole, you’ll find we have all the same kind of serial killers, grisly cold cases and unexplained incidents that are depicted in the top ranking Hulu or Netflix crime docs. The only issue is that they tend to go unnoticed.

O.J. Simpson’s recent death got a lot of people reading or watching anything they could about the America’s most famous true-crime story. However, if you could name true-crime stories with a Black central casting other than O.J., well congratulations! You’re a real crime junkie. The rest of you, take a moment (if you have the stomach for it) to peruse this list of Black true crime stories every crime fanatic should know.