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...