If you’re the type of person who’s totally obsessed with true crime, there are plenty of dramatized shows to get into that will pique your interest.

The best crime-solving shows include cunning villains, relatable victims, and hardworking law enforcement officials seeking justice. These shows will leave you feeling satisfied with justice being served.

Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior

Fans of Criminal Minds are in luck when it comes to spinoffs, starting with Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior. Forest Whitaker heads another BAU team in San Francisco investigating the murders of homeless men as a backdoor pilot to the show.

The two teams cross paths and work together to help solve the crime. Kristen Vangsness even reprises her role as Penelope Garcia in the show. The spinoff took the same angle as its predecessor, but unfortunately, only lasted one season.

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders

Criminal Minds tends to follow the spinoff route often, and Beyond Borders is another example of that. One episode focuses on an American family vacationing together on the island of Barbados.

They get abducted by a family annihilator. This is when Gary Sinise and Anna Gunn are thrown into action, helping our beloved BAU team from America solve this case.

They’re brought in to help profile international cases. This spin-off follows the team replicating the real-life International Response Team, who helps with cases that involve Americans who are overseas.

The show then takes its own feet for two spectacular seasons. After the series concluded, Daniel Henry took his talents to Criminal Minds to continue his role as Matthew Simmons.

Mindhunter

Fans of the show Criminal Minds know that the show revolves around the FBI’s BAU (Behavioral Analysis Unit). Well, why not jump into a show that helps depict the creation of the BAU?

That is exactly what the creators and producers of Mindhunter had in mind when they came up with the idea. The show stars Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany as they try to start up
the BAU within the FBI in the 1970s.

Their idea is laughed at in the beginning, but as the show progresses and they catch more and more criminals, their idea starts to gain some merit.

The fun part about this show is that it uses real criminals from history such as Charles Manson, Dennis Radar (BTK killer), and Ed Kemper to show how the BAU was formed. The similarities are endless between Mindhunter and Criminal Minds.

CSI: Vegas

One of the hottest new crime shows that came out in 2021 is CSI: Vegas. Paula Newsome stars as Maxine Roby who is tasked with facing a threat that could bring down the entire crime lab.

With Las Vegas being one of the most traveled and visited places on Earth, the team needs to
work hard to keep everyone safe.

The show was originally going to be a mini-series, however, a second season is coming back for fans. While Criminal Minds relies more on profiling and CSI: Vegas relies more on forensic work, both shows are all about fighting crime.

Bones

Emily Deschanel stars as Dr. Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist at the Jefferson Institution in Bones. She specializes in looking at the bones of victims whose bodies are badly burned, decomposed, or destroyed so badly that they cannot be identified.

She then works with the FBI, specifically Steeley Booth, portrayed by David Boreanaz, to help them determine whether or not the victims have been murdered.

If so, she helps narrow down the method of how they were killed. Criminal Minds fans will appreciate the humor that is given when the team is not working, as well as the romantic tension between
some of the characters, especially Brennan and Booth.