Crypto · Vanity Fair · San Quentin
Plus: A "mommy blogger" on her role in shaping the child sex-trafficking narrative
Kent State · Love After Lockup · The Frenchie Black Market
Plus a Leah Sottile longread and a Blake Bailey explainer
What Crimes Help You Connect With Your Mom?
No, I’m not Oxygening* you. But here’s a story: A couple weeks after my dad died in 2018, my brother (Brooklyn) and I (San Francisco) were still in Indiana...
For Real This Time: Blow · Bezos · Candy Montgomery
Plus: Holmes in court
Unsolved Mysteries · Opioids In Baseball · The Sons Of Sam
Plus the Peabody nominations and a classic longread
Rebecca Zahau · Scott Peterson · Bruce McArthur
Plus: A questionable way to celebrate Mother's Day
Broken Harts · The Staircase · France's Greatest Escape Artist
Plus, wild times in the Kansas legislature
Creating an opioid-crisis syllabus
In my inbox yesterday: 1) a note from the PR team for Alex Gibney’s upcoming doc for HBO, The Crime Of The Century, that included HBO’s official trailer; 2)...
April Bonus Review: Fatal Voyage
Dylan Howard's 2018 podcast accuses Robert Wagner of murdering Natalie Wood. I accuse the podcast of assaulting the English language.
Tiger King · The Webbys · The NBA
Plus: Between Black and Blue gets a release date
DOJ vs. Louisville PD · Dan Abrams · Best American Crime Writing 2002
Plus: Tulsa, Wade Robson, and the Brooklyn DA
Michael Lohan · Kristin Smart · Angie Harmon
Plus: another look at the Rebecca Zahau case
Cruel Doubt · Kesha · Cyntoia Brown
Plus a '70s kidnapping and related process-y listening
What True-Crime Property Helped You Understand Crime?
I have a confession to make. Though I had decades to get around to understanding the FBI’s Abscam sting operations, it wasn’t until I watched American Hustle...
Body Brokers · Unsolved Murders · Murder at the Cottage
Plus: Sammy the Bull's podcast has arrived
More "Meta" True-Crime Fiction · John Walsh · Teresa Giudice
Plus, dumpster tapes and a garbage grand jury
Fyre Fest · Making a Murderer · Gucci
So so so many links!
Edgars Predictions · Philly DA · James Ellroy
Plus Sasquatch, the former Mrs. Gacy, and clickbait curation
What's Your Local True-Crime Conspiracy Theory?
Remember when conspiracy believers were most associated with the X-Files’ Lone Gunmen and Mel Gibson’s character in the (now nearly unGoogleable) 1997 movie...
Jam Master Jay · Hot Springs · Svengali
Plus: Harassment within the FBI
Chippendales Revue In Review · John Wilkes Booth
Plus Weinstein's toothless defense and HS-football drama in Georgia
CrimeDoor · Loot · Reenactments
Plus: Uncovering corruption in Boston
Veritas · Cocaine & Rhinestones · West Cork
Plus Jeffrey MacDonald, Johnny Rodriguez, and a tragic bank robber
The next great Netflix feature doc (because not everything needs a docuseries)
Marta Orbach, Joey Gallo, Gallo’s bride Sina, and David Steinberg. Joey and Sina were married in Marta and Jerry Orbach’s home. (15 Minutes Magazine) Look, I...
Son of Sam · MySpace · Crypto Hacks
Plus: Shenanigans at Bloomberg
This Is A Robbery · COVID Crime Rates · Alex Gibney
Plus upcoming "Independent Lens"es, and legal challenges to bigamy
The Serpent · The Menendez Brothers · Tulsa
Plus: Woody Allen isn't making things easier on himself.
Yellow Bird · Moment of Truth · Lifetime's Summer of Secrets
Plus, why we don't center the tellers' experiences of bank robbery, Los Clemente, and more
What's your true-crime "desert island" city?
Inspired by a tweet from acclaimed Detroit journo Robert Snell yesterday… Robert Snell @robertsnellnewsSCOOP: Millionaire Grosse Pointe Park CEO killed in...
Colin Firth · Confession Letter · Doodler Controversy
Plus: A slew of new podcasts
March 2021 Bonus Review: Inside Game
Randall Batinkoff's 2019 biopic on the NBA ref scandal is fine, but could have been more
New From Serial Productions · Gacy Intel · Small Towns Divided
Plus, the line between mentor and guru, and some welcome casting news
Tina Turner · Amateur Detectives · Ghislaine Maxwell
Plus: Elizabeth Holmes, recast
A Death In Mud Lick · George "The Mad Bomber" Metesky
Plus Dan Cassino's three-book spotlight on gender and class divides in true-crime narrative
Is The 'Serial Legacy' A Thing?
Elena Avanzas @ElenaAvanzasThis is heartbreaking and will force us to consider the impact of true crime (and the Serial legacy) in our lives - How Sara Gruen...
Sara Gruen · Crucifixion · Mario Rossi
We're spring cleaning our budget doc, so make some tea and get comfy
Mike Tyson · Alexander Wang · Jay Robert Nash
Plus a stunning "New Yorker" longread
Jeffrey Epstein · Prince Andrew · Woody Allen
Plus: Watergate is the new hotness
David France · The Third Rainbow Girl · Lauren Boebert
Plus: Some of the most adaptable stories from early 2021
What Moves A Crime Story From Headline to True Crime Legend?
Have the Krays captivated generations because of their crime story, or because we fetishize twins? True crime writer Harold Schechter posed a question this...
The Doodler · Cocaine Bear · Atlanta
Plus: Netflix trickery
Cryptids and Murder · Vargas and Holes · Depp and Biggie
Plus a Belgian case, a black-widow podcast, and tons of trailers
Little Holmes · Night Clubbing · Amityville
Plus: Some adaptation photos for the books
Blood Runs Coal · Armie Hammer · True-Crime Curricula
And: even MORE Mormons.
Thinking outside the traditional-medium box
Inspired by 1) Dan Cassino’s fantastic round-up of essential true-crime comics/graphic novels from yesterday; and 2) a recommendation from an Exhibit B....
7 Top True-Crime Comics
Plus Elon Green on the Hon. Bernette Johnson, and Isle of Wight smuggling
James Jordan · Jeffrey MacDonald · True-Crime Tropes
Plus more Mormons, "Miracle Fishing," and a discount code!
Slender Man · Circle of Deception · Lost Hills
Also: Responding to Alec Baldwin (is that wise?)
Anna Sorokin · Jeffrey Epstein · Australia
Plus: The 1-5 Strangler's symmetric autopsy report
What's the prescription for case fatigue?
We all have cases we’re weary of, for whatever reason. Maybe it’s that a round-number case anniversary has recently come and gone (the Tate-LaBianca...