True crime
115 videos in the corpus, 67 from WatchMojo and its sister channels and 48 from competitors. 158 comments mention it, 109 of them unprompted.
Where this subject stands
Each signal is a 0-100 rank against the 262 subjects measured in this run. The combined score weights them 30% demand, 25% momentum, 25% opening and 20% fit.
41% of comments on its older videos arrived more than 30 days after upload, so the subject keeps earning after the news cycle.
Demand is the strongest of the four signals here at 99 of 100, and opening the weakest at 44, both ranked against the 262 subjects in this run. Where an opportunity has been written for this subject, its caveat names the weakest signal or a judgment risk.
The counts each signal was built from
Nothing here is a judgment. Every figure is counted from the uploads and comments collected, grouped under the signal it feeds.
- Comments mentioning it
- 158
- of 13,584 counted in the run
- Raised unprompted
- 109
- under videos that were not about it
- Explicit requests
- 4
- asking for a list or a follow-up
- Where-is-X arguments
- 12
- naming what a list left out
- Likes on those comments
- 1,714
- summed across every mention
- Views across its videos
- 12.1M
- all channels, lifetime views at collection
- Uploads in the last 14 days
- 31
- against 50 in the 60 days before, all channels
- Upload lift
- 1.12x
- its share of all uploads, recent window over prior
- Conversation lift
- 2.57x
- 114 recent mentions against 13 prior, as shares of all comments in each window
- Competitor supply in the window
- 24
- videos from 6 channels in the last 74 days
- Supply rank
- 96
- of 100 among subjects in this run; higher means more crowded
- Since WatchMojo last covered it
- 1 day
- last main-channel upload on it 2026-08-26
- Owned index
- 1.5x
- median views over channel median, WatchMojo, MsMojo and MojoPlays
- Competitor index
- 1.0x
- the same measure across the competitor set
- Fit basis
- This subject
- 67 owned videos on the subject as evidence
- Late comments
- 41%
- arriving 30 or more days after upload, on videos old enough to tell; the evergreen read
Lifts compare the last 14 days with the 60 days before inside one collection run, as shares of everything published or commented in each window, so a subject with two uploads can show a large lift on a small base. Indexes are views over the channel’s own median for the same type, on videos at least three days old, which is what lets a small channel’s breakout show up next to a large one’s.
Opportunities that name this subject
An opportunity is a person's call, written against the signals above and citing the comments and videos it was read from.
WatchMojo and sister channels on it
Newest first: the newest 20 of 67 owned uploads on the subject, 59 of them from the main channel. The index is views over that channel's median for the same type.
Competitor videos beating their own median
Ranked by index, views over the channel's own median for the same type on videos at least three days old. 7 competitor videos on this subject ran at 2x or more.
In the audience’s words
Public comments that name the subject, unattributed and never paraphrased. Likes are the engagement each comment earned under its video.
Explicit requests
Viewers asking outright for a list, a sequel or a follow-up. Rare on this channel, which is what makes each one count.
Keep up the awesome work WatchMojo. Please do these videos soon: Top 20 Linkin Park songs, Another Top 10 Deftones songs, Top 10 Trivium songs, Top 20 Superman Villians, and finally Top 20 most Underrated Criminal Minds Unsubs.
Yet another list of serial killers that somehow fails to mention the atrocities committed by "Mother" Teresa.
Where is X
The audience naming what a list left out. Disagreement is demand.
Where was Jujubee's Eartha Kitt? 😭 a sensible 74 absolutely murders me 😂
Here are some movies that should have gotten honorable mentions: The Thing (1982) Night of the Creeps Killer Klowns from Outer Space Quiet Place
You forgot one of the biggest shocks: Thomas Gibson being booted from 'Criminal Minds' as LEAD Aaron Hotchner because Gipson had a habit of physically assaulting the writers and crew.
I think it's borderline criminal that you left out songs like - Visage, Fade to Grey - OMD, Enola Gay - Bronski Beat, Smalltown Boy - Herbie Hancock, Rockit and frankly, Van Halen's Jump
There is something darker from La Cygne, Kansas you forgot to mention and that is serial killer and kidnapper John Edward Robinson is from there
Having "Kiss it better" in honorable mention should be a crime
Raised unprompted
The subject brought up under a video that was not about it, which is the cleanest demand signal a comment corpus gives.
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Zodiac couple stabbing in the lake is the most efective to me. I have never felt so much the fear of being unable to escape from fatality.
"Deletions?" "Eliminations?" Whew! I was afraid they might've been murders!
Mate, 7:45 wasn't "a slap on the wrist." It was more of a "mean sideways glance as the dude was joyously prancing out of court."
A famous case where I live went unsolved for decades. A local DJ was caught for murdering a woman. They were pretty sure it was him but didn't have proof. The police had a fake party and asked him to DJ it. They took a water bottle he had thrown in trash at the event and were able to convict him.
My favorite video of yours is dumb criminals who got away with it until they didnt
Signal scores are percentile-style ranks across the 262 subjects in this run, not absolute measures: a demand of 90 means nine subjects in ten drew less conversation, not that nine viewers in ten want it. Comment counts come from the top-sorted comments sampled under our own cap per video, 13,584 counted of 15,432 collected, so every count on this page is a floor and never a video’s total. A comment or video is matched to this subject by its title, tags and text against an authored alias list, so the subject can be over-counted where an alias is broad and under-counted where the audience uses a name the list does not know. Competitor supply covers the 15 competitor channels collected, not YouTube as a whole, and everything here is a single collection on 2026-08-27: lifts compare windows inside one snapshot, not two runs.