Curse Of The Chippendales · The Toolbox Killer
Plus Buffy, Sassy, a book sale, and more
It's a budget-doc blowout
All the links we can fit, in one issue. You're welcome.
Nassar · Murdaugh · Petito
Also: Durst · Holmes · Kelly. Yeah, it's a lot.
Monsters Inside · Major-Case Headlines
Milligan, MacDonald, Murdaugh, and more
"By reason of mental disease or defect"
Joanne Woodward has concerns about Sally Field’s grabbing the pop-psych zeitgeist with both hands. (NBC) What better way to greet the weekend than with a...
San Quentin · Krysten Ritter
Eve plays Marry Fuck Kill with Reelz
The Falcon And The Snowman
Plus "Dopesick," Da Vinci, and more
Michael Wolff · Danbury Trashers · Sirhan Sirhan
Podcasts present and future to mull
Only Murders In The Pod · Spider Sabich · ACS: Fact-Check
Plus two longreads on forensic genealogy finding justice
Never Forgetting
I don’t remember the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks as being this…insistent. On the eve of the 20th anniversary, though, after PR blasts about...
Queenpins · Prada · Dog the Bounty Hunter
Plus, Doppel-Holmeses
Americans Boogeyman and Crime Story
Plus Sarah Delashmit and the latest on Gypsy Rose Blanchard
Michael K. Williams · Etsy · OnlyFans
A prestige panty raid?
August Bonus Review: The Salisbury Poisonings
It's good, but it's also close enough to COVID home that it's kind of surprising it aired at all.
Honeytraps · Heidi Fleiss · Hardstark Agonistes
Plus a bunch of long-weekend reading
Suspects · R. Kelly · Laetitia
Plus: The Dropout drops some new episodes
American Crime Story: The '90s
Impeachment: American Crime Story bows next Tuesday. In contemplating this third installment, I realized that one of the franchise’s gifts is its focus on...
Only Murders In The Building, Reviewed · Melanie Lynskey, Bet-Crapped
Plus white-collar parolees, a Goffard deep cut, and more
Pam Hupp · Linda Tripp · Elizabeth Holmes
Plus: Real talk on fake killers
Bundy Bundy Lindy Harvey LLC
Plus Court TV, half-century fugitive runs, the Dresden job, and more
Billy Milligan · Sybil · Truddi Chase
There's a true crime element to most high-profile tales of DiD
What mundane schemes could make for terrific true crime?
Queenpins, a vaguely Good Girls-esque new movie about a coupon scam, is essentially based on the kind of shrug emoji broadcast crime story you’d forget by...
Spokesmen · Weinstein · Office Chairs
An AP story sends Eve down a dark path
The Best Evidence True-Crime Résumé Percentage
It's pronounced "Bet-Crap." Obviously. Also, "Bad Blood," Bundy, and Bill Kurtis.
The Modern Detective · The Cuomo-sical · David v. Dersh
Plus a book-thief mystery, and what happened to Kendrick Johnson
Berlinger Beef · Des Nilsen · Real Housewives
Plus: Eve's favorite true crime podcast name yet
What suspects should start their own podcasts?
As previously discussed, despite reports to the contrary, Florida congressman/alleged sex offender Matt Gaetz did not launch a podcast to defend himself:...
Studio 54 · Celebrity Rape Allegations · Dylan Howard
Plus: Confusion between various Rs
Sex Next Door · Monster In The Shadows · Snopes
Plus Mike Fanone, Mondrians in the john, and more
DB Cooper Crackpottery 1, Buntsy's Sanity 0
Plus Mr. Erika Jayne's office gets auctioned, the truth about Sam Bronfman, and much more
Jon Hamm · Rachel Uchitel · White House Plumbers
Plus: a Victorian-era serial killer
The worst governors (and the best true crime about them)
Hands where we can see ’em, “gentlemen.” (NYS Governor’s Office) Upon the inglorious occasion of Andrew Cuomo’s resignation from the governorship of New York...
OJ · Matt Gaetz · Carmel Pine Cone
Plus: a doc on sleep murder
CNBC's True-Crime Play?
Plus Tarantino's novel, future defendants in politics, and more
The Lost Leonardo · The Malice At The Palace · The Dropout
Plus a sobriety cult, Discovery steps to "Love After Lockup," and more
Cocaine Cowboys · Robert Durst · True Crime 'Junkies'
Plus: Bill Gates states the obvious
Shattered Glass: stories about stories
I’ve finally watched Shattered Glass and it’s as brilliant as I’d heard. The cast is amazing (and studded with true-crime “vets” like Sarsgaard, Sevigny,...
Stillwater · John DeLorean · Cuba Gooding
Plus: When a cop union shut up
Murder houses of the 213, memories of the 215
Plus wacky tobacky in the 212, a Leto/Tambor "Freaky Friday," and more
July Bonus Review: Generation Hustle
A ten-episode tour of scammers and frauds that focuses on process
True-crime movies that Oscar forgot
Plus podcast news, and Edwardian police bungling treads the boards
A True-Crime Perfect 10
Best Evidence has Olympics fever! (Ugh, phrasing.)
Edgar Awards midyear predictions
The Townhouse, locus of much of the action in Last Call (SDB lived down the street in the mid-nineties). (Edward Keating / New York Times) “Hey, what’s the...
Citizen · Gacy · Dirty John
Plus: A cop who won an award for...not working?
Whitey Bulger · James Renner · Search Party
Plus the death of a monster and the ghosts in a Mississippi barn.
Is there a true-crime doc in YOUR childhood?
And no, I don’t mean that you can sue your parents for never coming through with a pony. (You can’t. I checked.) I’m talking about the safety hazards and...
Bad Influencer · Pappygate · Airbnb
And "The Staircase" moves to behind-the-camera announcements
A trifecta of law-enforcement flailing
Plus "Mystery At Sea," Sarah Weinman's next book, and more
The Limited · Twitch · Undoctored
Plus: A crime writer's personal crime tale
What Happened To Paula · Eazy-E · Baseball Stalkers
Plus A&E premieres and "Dr. Death" reviews