Clue Awards 2026 Nominee; Honoring Jeffrey Epstein Survivors

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Former “Dateline NBC” personality Chris HansenIt will be hosted by , who is currently hosting ‘Takedown with Chris Hansen’. Crime Cone2026 clue. Held Saturday, May 30 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas as part of the three-day CrimeCon convention, the annual event recognizes true crime content in television, film, podcasts and publishing.

CrimeCon announced the Clue of the Year Award nominees on Thursday, revealing that Jeffrey Epstein survivors Jena-Lisa Jones, Haley Robson and Courtney Wild will receive the Crime Fighter of the Year award. Jones, Robson and Wild were also recognized for their work with The Survivors, Inc., which focuses on supporting sexual assault survivors.

Additionally, the Clue Awards announced the 2026 finalists for the “America’s Best Detective” award for Law & Crime: Tara Augustin and Alyson Dupouy, Maryland Montgomery County PD detectives who helped solve the cold case of Leslie Preer. Retired Las Vegas Metro PD Sgt. Jenn Benjamins, who founded Covert Blue LLC, a law enforcement training company; and South Carolina’s Richland County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Vicki Rains Pearson recently appeared in the Netflix doc “Missing: Dead or Alive.”

Clue Award presenters include:On Patrol: Live“Analyst Tom Rizzo,”CSI” Producer Anthony Zuiker and crime scene investigator Sheryl McCollum, among others.

Past Crime of the Year honorees include The Black & Missing Foundation, The Gabby Petito Foundation, “America’s Most Wanted” creator and NCMEC co-founder John Walsh, the families of Abigail Williams and Liberty German, Lt. Jerry Holeman, and Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland.

Here it is. 2026 Clue Award Nominees:

TV: Excellent docuseries

  • “Death Cap: The Mushroom Murders” (Stan, CNN, Netflix UK) Dream Chaser, The Martian’s Den, fifth season
  • “The Girl on the Run: In Search of America’s Most Wanted” (Hulu) Plum Pictures and ABC News Studios
  • “Death of a Showjumper” (Sky) Walk on Air Films and Sky Studios
  • “Amy Bradley is Missing” (Netflix) Ample Entertainment
  • “Betrayal: Under His Eye” (Hulu) ABC News Studios and Glass Entertainment Group

TV: Excellent episodic series

  • “Feds” (Investigation Discovery) Orit Entertainment and October Films
  • “Law of the Desert” (A&E Network) Twenty Twenty Productions
  • “24-hour police custody: murder is not a game” (Channel 4) The Garden Productions
  • “On the Paula Zahn Case” (Investigation Discovery) Scott Sternberg Productions, Inc. and Weinberger Media
  • “Barbara Bucher’s Death Investigator” (Oxygen True Crime) Wolf Entertainment, Alfred Street Industries and Universal Television Alternative Studio, a division of Universal Studio Group

TV: Outstanding Scripted Series

  • “Dark Winds” (AMC) AMC Studios
  • “Paradise” (Hulu) 20th Television
  • “Reasonable Doubt” (Hulu) 20th Television and Onyx Collective
  • “RJ Decker” (ABC) 20th Television
  • “There is only murder in the building” (Hulu) 20th Television

Podcast: Outstanding Docuseries

  • “The Burden of Guilt” Glass Podcast in partnership with iHeart Podcast
  • ‘Goblin Hunting’ perfect cadence
  • “Blood is Thick: The Farris Wheel” 48 Hours (CBS News)
  • “Shipwreck” Audible and Sugar23
  • “Betrayal” Glass Podcast in partnership with iHeart Podcasts

Podcast: Excellent Episode Series

  • “48 Hours: Postmortem” 48 Hours (CBS News)
  • “True Crime Summary” Jellysmack and Trendly
  • ‘Lawless Planet’ Audible
  • “1 minute left” Mashed Pumpkin Productions PTY LTD
  • ‘Mind for Murder’ Another Dog Production and Absolute Zero Production

Excellent documentary film

  • “BTK Killer My Father” (Netflix) Campfire Studio
  • “Nights in West Texas” (play) Monster Myths, Naked Edge Films and Texas Monthly
  • “Prince Andrew: On Trial” (Channel 5 / True Royalty) Good TV
  • “Unknown Number: High School Catfish” (Netflix) Campfire Studio in association with Terminal B TV
  • “Ruby Red Handed: Stealing America’s Most Famous Shoe” (Hulu) A Commission Film in association with ABC News Studios

True Crime Book of the Year

  • “Something Big: The True Story of the Brown Chicken Massacre” (Post Hill Press) By Patrick Wohl
  • “Expert Witness” (Grand Central Publishing), by Dr. Anne Walbert Burgess
  • “Out of the Woods” by Gregg Olsen (Thomas & Mercer, published by Amazon Publishing)
  • “Injustice Town” (Pegasus Books) by Rick Tulsky
  • “Chasing Down the Zombie Hunter” by Troy Hillman (Pegasus Books)

People’s Choice: Creator of the Year

  • Annie Ellis (“SERIALously”, “10 to LIFE”)
  • “Crime Stories with Nancy Grace” – Nancy Grace
  • “Crime Weekly” – Stephanie Harlowe, Derrick Levasseur
  • “Court Confidential” – Joshua Ritter
  • “The Prosecutor” – Alice Lacour, Brett Talley



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