"It's brutal": Leo Frank and true crime at the theater
A conversation with Adam Grosswirth about "Parade"
"No relation": sharing names with the notorious
When I got married, I didn’t change my name. DPB didn’t care, I didn’t feel like it, and life has enough paperwork you don’t have a choice about. But we did...
Spiders · Long Movies · Trump
Your opinion sought on televised trials
Trailed · Reverend Mother · Murder & Basketball
Leave the Pope out of it, will ya?
March 2023 Bonus Review: Wife, Mother, Murderer
It's not bad, but it's probably not worth your time, either
Scott Peterson · The Colorado Cannibal · Scenes From A Textbook Scam
Plus a century-old con and another murderous dentist
Heidi Fleiss · Hillsong · ChatGPT
Welcome to the March budget sweep. It's a doozy!
Hollywood is Hollywood
A roundup of recent tinseltown-related true crime
"Breakout hits": favorite lam/escape properties
Muse Watson as Charles “DB Cooper” Westmoreland on Prison Break. I should probably get locked up for that pun, but anyway: what are your favorite/recommended...
"Waco" on Netflix · Eilish on "Swarm" · Vengeance on OKCupid
Plus Susan on the Edgars, and a Texas scamfluencer on trial
Join the Best Evidence chat
More true-crime connects and recs
Girl Scouts · Crackpots · Crime Seen
Plus BET-CRP planning and your weekend watches
Prick up your ears
A bounty of Bunting on crime audio from the archives
What's your serial killer required reading list?
When I was writing up my thoughts on Boston Strangler yesterday, I was surprised to discover that its source material wasn’t a book. That revelation is...
Slenderman · Boston Strangler · Citizen Sleuth
Plus: A cell phone scam long read
Say Nothing · Furious Hours · My Friend Anna
Plus: What we were considering this weekend
Harvard Yard · Stanford University · Jussie Smollett
Plus: Mulling the Delphi murders
Criminal Minds · Naked City · Joe Pepitone
Caril Ann Fugate three ways, plus Foxy drops the mic
Girls · In The Dark · Oscar Isaac
Plus: Guess Eve's Kurt Vonnegut theory was wrong
Your Edgar Awards ballot
Awards season isn’t quite over — we’ve still got the 2023 Edgars to look forward to! Not to mention Susan Howard’s coverage of this year’s Best Fact Crime...
Blake, Dunne, and Capote
Plus, why Waco won't go anywhere
Peanut butter and jelly : Tech and crime
Plus: a lot going on this weekend!
Gilmore · MacDonald · Shakur · Kennedy · Nixon · Perry
And Spector, and Stone...a Robert Sam Anson reader
What true crime stories *shouldn't* be adapted?
As discussed on Best Evidence yesterday, the latest attempt to adapt H.H. Holmes-centric novel The Devil in the White City has tanked. As I read through the...
Frank Grillo · World's Fair · Jimmy Savile
Plus: An object lesson in how *not* to write about a school molestation scandal
Eliot Ness · Charlie Chaplin · Dick Wolf
Plus Judith Light, the Gentleman Bandit, and stupid title tricks
Life for Murdaugh · University of Idaho · Jussie Smollett
Plus: your podcast help requested
"Melrose Place" · A Manson girl · The Ballad Of Nanette The Laundry Cart
Plus the Oscar streaker and bad re-enaccents
When your search for materials on a given case is itself a cold case
From an esteemed colleague came the following query yesterday: Have you ever heard of the Galbraith case? I can't seem to find a book on it. He enclosed a...
February 2023 Bonus Review: By Hands Now Known
A revolting history; a new classic
Millionaire Dog · Dr. Phil · Ashton Kutcher
It's the February budget sweep!
Bear Brook · Robert Wone · I Have Some Questions For You
Plus data scrubbing, Von Nukem research, and Jersey...Jerseying
Boston Strangler · Peak Murdaugh · Jane Doe
Weekend TV and real-life follows
Starkweather and Fugate · Hamilton and Burr · Ice-T and Live
And the good things about bad books
When centering the suspect works (and when it doesn't)
We’ve been talking a lot lately about how problematic it is to center the criminal in a true crime property. Victims rights advocates quite properly protest...
Listen now, watch later
Two roundups today: Some new podcasts of interest, and a bunch of upcoming true crime film and TV to watch for
Chris Dorner · Cadbury Eggs · Tiki Torchers
Plus: the [noun] And [noun] true crime title trend
Run Bambi Run: The Musical · Unfrozen Caveman Live PD
Plus the CBC on "Big True Crime," and more Cavett author beef
Stolen Youth · Salman Rushdie · Niecy Nash
Plus: How crime coverage misled us about bitcoin
What's your perfect Valentine's day true crime playlist?
RCMP Alberta @RCMPAlbertaSave yourself heartache this Valentine’s Day by ensuring you protect yourself from car thieves. Park in well-lit areas and remove...
Baseball Myths · Black Widows · Bankman-Fried
Plus sketchy YouTube momagers, and a cold case gets cracked
Bugsy · Brett · Bird on the lam
Plus Santos, superfluous reporting, and your true-crime weekends
Hooray for Hollywood (true crime)
As folks return to the theater, true crime pictures get bigger
Let's talk about the Night Stalker
Richard Ramirez would have been 63 this month. He died nearly a decade ago (June 7, 2013, if you’re keeping track) in a hospital in tony Marin County,...
Armie Hammer · The Order · Authentic Wave
Plus: The bizarre true crime link to "Emancipation"
Martha Mitchell · Marilyn Manson · College Hoops
Plus AI, Adnan, and sponcon
Oakland · Anthony Palladino · Murf the Surf
Plus: Our true-crime weekend
Eric Adams · Mormons · A Groundhog Day BET-CRP
Plus the commercialization of documentaries
Black History Month: Recs and reqs
Black History Month gets underway today, and you know what that means. Thought-provoking discussion and reading/viewing, yes…but also cringey leveraging of...
Jerks · Backstories · Sports
It's the January budget doc sweep post