Mr. & Mrs. Murder: This is not grief
Is Hulu's latest story of two couples, two decades, and a mysterious disappearance worth your time? Depends on if you know the case already! SDB’s review is...
1999 Edgars flashback: One of Us
Richard Serrano takes readers through the Oklahoma City bombing and its aftermath. Is this earlier take on Timothy McVeigh's crimes worth a look? Susan...
Read-Handed: Berlinger and Berkowitz
Don’t call him true-crime guy (he’s been here for years), plus cults, vanishings, and the tabloids. David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz, latest main subject of Joe...
July 2025 Bonus: One Year In A Life Of Crime
The first installment in what became a three-part, multi-decade project. (HBO) To read SDB’s review, subscribe now! Subscribe now The crimeThe crime/s in the...
1999 Edgars flashback: To The Last Breath
Susan Howard is back on the Best Fact Crime flashback beat. Should YOU take a time machine back to 1999's most decorated true-crime books? Susan’s review of...
Should you join a Billionaire Boys Club?
Yes, "a" – you have a bunch of "membership options" when it comes to the murderous Ponzi case of Joe Hunt. Is any of them worth your time? Judd Nelson has...
The bra biz is scandalous padding for The Rise and Fall of Michelle Mone
The Crime: Scottish entrepreneur and Baroness Michelle Mone engineered £200m of contracts during COVID-19 for PPE supplies to the British National Health...
Read-Handed: Dallas diamonds and New Jersey Nazis
Plus Maris Kreizman, Martha Stewart, "Fatal Vision," and maggot science in our recent-reads round-up. More from SDB’s TBR is here — or get the full article...
How to catch up on Australia's mushroom murder case
The Crime: Erin Patterson prepared a lunch of beef Wellington for her estranged husband’s relatives, including his parents, at her house in the small...
June 2025 Bonus Review: The Prosecutors and "Aunt Diane"
So sorry for the delay (a weird travel week was had by all!). To read my review of The Prosecutors podcast’s Diane Schuler episode, subscribe now! Subscribe now
Finding fault in Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy
Not finding fault WITH Netflix's doc on the 2021 concert gone terribly wrong; the doc is solid. But the sub-sub-genre has further potential. The rest of...
You've watched Romcon: Who the F*** is Jason Porter?. What's next?
Prime Video's new love-fraud docuseries is pretty good; we've got your next rom-scam watches, reads, and listens. (Prime Video) Get SDB’s list here — or read...
The Mortician: That's not a person anymore
HBO's take on the Lamb/Sconce funeral-home "scandal" thinks about a crime story's "body" in a different way. Should you give it a look? SDB’s review will...
Read-Handed: Crimoirs and car cons
Plus murder mags, midcentury classics, ancient forgeries, and more of what we’re reading and researching. Get SDB’s full list here — or to read the whole...
May 2025 Bonus Review: Unknown Serial Killers Of America
Oxygen is onto something, subject-wise. Is the finished product anything? The crime"Lesser-known" than the over-covered likes of Ted Bundy and Jack the...
You've watched Untold: The Fall Of Favre. What's next?
Is Netflix's Brett Favre doc worth your time? And what related docs and books might you like too/instead? Get SDB’s review and recs here…or get ‘em sans ads...
Ask Not: Girls, interrupted (by the Kennedys)
Maureen Callahan's 2024 book takes on the "destructive force" of an American royal family. Is it worth your time? SDB’s review is here — or, to get full...
Kate Summerscale's The Peepshow takes a new view on an old case
The author of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher re-centers the 10 Rillington Place murders. Should you add it to your TBR? Margaret Howie has more; read her full...
The Bakersfield 3: "It's better if you don't know"
Three mothers come together to try to prove their kids' cases are related. Is the ID series on the intertwined mysteries trying to prove something too? Read...
Whack Job: Is the pen mightier than the axe?
Rachel McCarthy James's "history of axe murder" isn't exactly that; should you give it a read anyway? SDB’s review… …or to get the whole thing straight to...