What's your true-crime New Year's resolution?
One of the benefits of the current true-crime boom is that we don’t just have to settle for what we’re given anymore. While once the best we could do was...
All the true crime we meant to get to in 2021 and didn't
Making room on the budget doc for 2022
Dead Asleep · Jane Stanford
Plus a speedy longread
Are you giving true crime for the holidays?
Yes, this item is available on Etsy. But shoooooould you? When I tell people at my cutesy little artisan and vintage shop about Sarah’s true crime book...
The O'Jays and OJ
Oh how I wish I could find an "Oh, Jay" story to add to that subject line
Ed Gein · The Murders At Starved Rock
Just another cheery day at BE HQ
Cosby · Lucky · Radicals
Plus: So much podcast news!
Doc Antle · The Texas Seven
Plus some upcoming projects, and a Victorian lady bank scammer
Let's discuss infamous false reports
It didn’t take long for a Chicago jury to decide that Empire actor Jussie Smollett had falsely reported a hate crime, resulting in a guilty verdict for five...
5 Wildlife True-Crime Books · Fatal Distraction
Plus courtroom sketchers, Vatican machinations, and more
Scott Peterson · Emmett Till · BTK
Plus: More Cuomo cruddiness
Charlatan · Elizabeth Holmes · Landscapers
Plus: A roundup that left Eve's floor dirty
Gucci · Garvey · Glass
And lawsuits, and longreads
Why are some celebrity criminals immune from cancellation?
I don’t know how it came up, but someone I was talking to mentioned how they hoped Q-leaning folks didn’t discover Conspiracy Theory, that 1997 Julia...
Fruitcake Fraud · Rittenhouse · Açaí
The latest on four real-life cases we're tracking
Keep Sweet: FLDS ten years later
Plus Skye Borgman, Chris Cuomo, and a Sebold update
November Bonus Review: The Gits
A minor band doc becomes an accidentally powerful victim-impact statement
Lucky · Rent-a-Hitman · Turtles
Plus: A couple of reviews worth reading
Vibe February 1994 · Menendez Reconsidered
It's real '90s in here today. Also, two big trials begin.
Digging into food crime
And we don’t mean raisins in the stuffing, although: gross, y’all. Anyway! As we head into the Thanksgiving break*, we thought we’d talk about the most...