Coben, Combs, and clowns: 5 true-crime stories to watch
Plus axe murders, hip-hop lyrics, and the true-crime/mystery-novel pipeline. Subscribe now
Dark Side of the Ring's latest is a crushing combo of drugs and delusion
If you've never heard of Dark Side of the Ring, you're not alone. The docuseries is from Vice Studios Canada, the northern arm of the once-important, now...
April 2025 Bonus Review: Killer Performance
Yeah, SDB's eye bounced off Reelz's 2024 post-hoc profiling series too. Were those instincts right, or does the show have something to offer? Subscribe now
True Crime Story: Look Into My Eyes looks for justice in grief
The AMC docuseries about a literally hypnotic high-school principal and the deaths of three students is onto something, but may take too long. Subscribe now
Is Unseamly: The Investigation of Peter Nygård still worth watching?
Discovery's look at fashion mogul Nygård's life of crime dropped four years ago. Has it held up? Subscribe now
2025 Edgar Awards round-up: predictions and objections
Susan Howard wraps up her 2025 Best Fact Crime overview with some predictions…and some nitpicks about the nominees. Subscribe now
How much true crime is on Sidney Lumet's c.v.?
The Best Evidence True-Crime Résumé Percentage tackles its first director, plus confronting the definition of “major case” (and a bad Vin Diesel hairpiece).
2025 Edgars round-up: The Bishop and the Butterfly
Susan Howard wraps this year's Best Fact Crime overview with a look at a Tammany Hall story that may have overreached. Subscribe now
Read-Handed: Doggie dupes and dead du Ponts
Plus fake Pitts, phone flim-flams, Dominick Dunne, and Marcia Clark in our latest reading round-up.
2025 Edgar Awards round-up: Hell Put to Shame
Susan Howard’s Edgars coverage continues with Earl Swift’s book on a peonage massacre; read the full review here, or subscribe at the paid level to get all...
Gone Girls and the rule of three(-part streaming doc)s
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Edgar Awards round-up: The Amish Wife
Prolific genre author Gregg Olsen returns to the subject of his FIRST book: the murder of Ida Stutzman. Is it a case worth revisiting? Susan Howard gets into...
March 2025 bonus review: Eaten Alive!
A South Texas Bluebeard meets the Texas Chainsaw Massacre creative team; it may not go exactly the way you think it does. Mars Productions Corp. Subscribe now
Horror story: The Killing Fields of East New York
Stacy Horn's recent book chronicles the corruption that turned a neighborhood into a cautionary, all-too-true tale. Is it worth your time? Read Mark...
2025 Edgar Awards round-up: A Devil Went Down To Georgia
Deb Miller Landau covered Lita McClinton's murder for Atlanta Magazine; 20 years later, she returned to the case. Is the book worth your time? Read the rest...
Happy Face: "Please don't produce me"
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Last Take: "How you get justice from an accident"
The making of Rust turned into a Möbius of trauma for everyone involved, not least Halyna Hutchins. Is a documentary about it worth making – or watching?...
2025 Edgar Awards round-up: The Infernal Machine
Read Susan Howard’s take on a tale of anarchist bombings and the birth of the surveillance state right here… …or up your support of Best Evidence and get...
Read-Handed: Gypsy-Rose, Michael Stewart, and sisters of mercy
Plus a Lawrence Wright longread, the passing of a genre giant, and the perils of branded crimoir. More from SDB’s reading list here, or grab a full sub and...
2025 Edgar Awards round-up: Long Haul
Once again this year, Best Evidence is tackling the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award nominees for Best Fact Crime book. Read Susan Howard’s first...