Tweakerworld · Zodiac · Scientology
Plus: Robert Hanssen, remembered
Summer-reading bingo, true-crime version
Anyone else got a summer-reading bingo card going? I’ve got high hopes for knocking one off this year; get your own card from our esteemed colleague...
Duggars · Darden · Death on the Lot
Plus: the changeling narrative in American culture and other longreads
Music · Max · Medicine
It's the May budget sweep!
The Docket 06.01.23
Mamet, Stone, Sebold, and the faulty narratives that endure
Natalia Grace · Elizabeth Holmes · Anna Delvey
Plus: Leslie Van Houten's parole chances
True cringe: vintage true crime's biggest dealbreakers
Not even this author’s worst offense in this regard IMO. Let’s face it: the punchbowl of “heritage” true crime contains many a turd. But I don’t mean the...
May 2023 Bonus Review: Who Killed Robert Wone?
A story about competing (and missing) stories
Randall and Sex Scandals · Judy Malinowski · Burden of Proof
Plus: a 1920s crime, revived
The Docket 05.25.23: Incarceration franchises and Nancy Grace
"60 Days In," Pacey Witter, and hard-hair blondes
Debunking the "CSI Effect"
Plus: Rolf Harris and HH Holmes
Why does the Idaho Murders/Bryan Kohberger case continue to fascinate?
Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of fatally stabbing University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Madison Mogen, was in...
Sacco and Vanzetti · Warhol · Exoneration 101
Summer reading's accidental treasures
Hillsong · Freeway Phantom · Horses
Plus: A first look at "Killers of the Flower Moon"
The Docket 05.18.23
Upcoming Oxygen programming and true-crime-satire fatigue
Death of a Bookseller · Airbnb · Ugly Houses
Plus: the real Wendy Carr
You can buy a house on Facebook Marketplace?
As always, you folks were right. In Friday’s “what true crime we’re consuming this weekend” section, I said I’d be dipping into Netflix’s newly-released...
"Cook to cook": Bourdain, Mary Mallon, and true crime
Plus a new scam pod, and Manson The Lesser's defamation suit hits a snag
Happy Best Evidence Anniversary!
Plus: your true crime weekend plans and some big Best Evidence (audio) news
"The evidence is not overwhelming or definitive"
RFK Jr., "Secrets of the Dead," and a long-cold Nebraska case is closed Down Under