Evil Genius (Season 1)

Evil Genius (2018) is a Netflix true-crime docuseries you can watch online on iFILM — four episodes directed by Barbara Schroeder that reconstruct one of the most baffling criminal cases in American history.

In August 2003 in Erie, Pennsylvania, a pizza deliveryman walks into a bank with a metal collar bomb locked around his neck. He tells tellers he was forced to rob the place. Police surround him in the parking lot — the device goes off before anyone can help him. The FBI investigation runs for years, threading through a web of small-time criminals until it reaches Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, a woman with a history of psychiatric illness and, prosecutors argued, the cold logic of a mastermind.

Detective Kevin Calkins spent nearly two decades on the case and appears throughout, giving the series an unusual weight: you watch a real investigator trying to make sense of something that keeps refusing to make sense. Stream all episodes of Evil Genius on iFILM.