The Docket 03.21.24: Homicide: New York’s failure of nerve
The Homicide: New York title card is like the show itself -- KIND of cool, but not thoughtful or creative at all. (Netflix) Today's Docket features special...
Edgar Award nominee Crooked tackles Harding-era corruption
Nathan Masters's Edgar-nominated book expertly captures the economic, social, and political landscape of the 1920s. Harry Daughtry, political fixer to...
Stormy: compelling subject, compromised execution
Stormy Daniels preps for a media appearance. (Peacock) In fact, Stormy‘s power lies primarily in evoking the poisonous side effects of that Trumpiness: the...
The Bishop and the Butterfly explains why you know the term ‘Tammany Hall’
Folks well-versed in New York history likely know all about Tammany Hall, the 1800s-era political organization that essentially ran the city (and boy oh boy,...
Manhunt is righteous, ambitious, and trying much too hard
The title card for Apple TV+'s latest, Manhunt. ...The desire to look again at Lincoln’s assassination and the disorienting days immediately following it,...
The Docket 03.14.24: James L. Swanson on The Deerfield Massacre
Cover detail from The Deerfield Massacre. (SDB) hello! Taking a break from regularly scheduled Docket programming to bring you SDB's interview with Manhunt...
Quiet on Set won’t stay silent about abuse at kids’ shows
...Writing my review, a day before you see it, a quick Google tells me that Drake Bell’s coming forward as the unidentified minor in the charging document...
Edgar Awards round-up: I Know Who You Are
The great Carol Daly. ...I Know Who You Are is equal parts memoir, genealogy guidebook, and true-crime thriller. Rae-Venter is a thoughtful and skilled...
Yellowstone producers to take on JonBenét Ramsey case
Twenty-eight years after the body of JonBenét Ramsey was discovered in her family's basement, we're no closer to learning who killed the six-year-old, or...
The Docket 03.07.24: Recent headlines we’d like to see adapted
We're back, and we're talking recent longreads we'd like to see adapted, plus participant consent, the Ocean's 11 default, and why rich people don't...
The Program review: a captivating story of teen resilience
Survivors of the Academy of Ivy Ridge "school." Courtesy: Netflix If it weren't for Katherine Kubler, new Netflix docuseries The Program: Cons, Cults, and...
Edgar Awards round-up: Tangled Vines
Edgar Allan Poe, who lends his name to the Edgar Awards, spikes a brow at Murdaugh-case overview Tangled Vines by author John Glatt. (l to r, the Poe Museum...
As We Speak: Rap On Trial makes a compelling case
Hip-hop artists and the doc's "host" Kemba, R, prepare to illustrate the comps between rap and Shakespeare in As We Speak: Rap On Trial. (Paramount+)...
Announcing the return of true crime podcast The Docket
Enjoy this message from a fan TGIF! We’re ushering in the weekend with some news we’ve been teasing this week: The Docket, our podcast on true crime,...
Serial announces Season 4, Hotel California on trial, Channing Tatum’s true crime turn
Serial's fourth season will be about detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Credit: Justin Norman Best Evidence readers know that the end of the month isn’t just for...
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders shows compassion for crackpots
An old-school PC shows the load screen for PROMIS, a "spy VICAP"-type program that sends the late Danny Casolaro down the conspiracy rat hole in American...
Blood On Their Hands doesn’t play to its own strengths
Victims of the Feb. 24, 2019 boat crash that touched off the Murdaugh-case firestorm. Paul Murdaugh, the alleged driver of the boat, is at right. (Photo: SC...
Pathological: The Lies of Joran Van Der Sloot could have been so much more
The key art for Pathological: The Lies of Joran Van Der Sloot If you're looking for a perfectly serviceable rundown of how Joran Van Der Sloot was finally...
Gross anatomy: The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
Peter Cushing as Dr. Knox in The Flesh and The Fiends. (Triad Productions) The Flesh and the Fiends is just one of the scripted properties devoted to Burke...
February, 2024 is a record-breaking month for new true crime TV
Still from God Bless Texas: Hometown Prison Longtime readers of Best Evidence know that there have been some weeks that Sarah and I have had to scrape the...