Monica Lewinsky · Mississippi · Mysteries Of The Soviet Union
Plus new TV, a Capitol-riot lamster, and more
True-Crime Time Machine: 2019
Best Evidence celebrated its second birthday yesterday. Jokes about cake in our hair and toilet-training aside, I loved going back to our inaugural edition...
Quibi · DiCaprio · Robert Durst
Plus: We're two years old!
Vincent Chin · Fall River · Confronting: Columbine
Plus: Is VH1 trying to eat Reelz's lunch?
Crypto · Vanity Fair · San Quentin
Plus: A "mommy blogger" on her role in shaping the child sex-trafficking narrative
Kent State · Love After Lockup · The Frenchie Black Market
Plus a Leah Sottile longread and a Blake Bailey explainer
What Crimes Help You Connect With Your Mom?
No, I’m not Oxygening* you. But here’s a story: A couple weeks after my dad died in 2018, my brother (Brooklyn) and I (San Francisco) were still in Indiana...
For Real This Time: Blow · Bezos · Candy Montgomery
Plus: Holmes in court
Unsolved Mysteries · Opioids In Baseball · The Sons Of Sam
Plus the Peabody nominations and a classic longread
Rebecca Zahau · Scott Peterson · Bruce McArthur
Plus: A questionable way to celebrate Mother's Day
Broken Harts · The Staircase · France's Greatest Escape Artist
Plus, wild times in the Kansas legislature
Creating an opioid-crisis syllabus
In my inbox yesterday: 1) a note from the PR team for Alex Gibney’s upcoming doc for HBO, The Crime Of The Century, that included HBO’s official trailer; 2)...
April Bonus Review: Fatal Voyage
Dylan Howard's 2018 podcast accuses Robert Wagner of murdering Natalie Wood. I accuse the podcast of assaulting the English language.
Tiger King · The Webbys · The NBA
Plus: Between Black and Blue gets a release date
DOJ vs. Louisville PD · Dan Abrams · Best American Crime Writing 2002
Plus: Tulsa, Wade Robson, and the Brooklyn DA
Michael Lohan · Kristin Smart · Angie Harmon
Plus: another look at the Rebecca Zahau case
Cruel Doubt · Kesha · Cyntoia Brown
Plus a '70s kidnapping and related process-y listening
What True-Crime Property Helped You Understand Crime?
I have a confession to make. Though I had decades to get around to understanding the FBI’s Abscam sting operations, it wasn’t until I watched American Hustle...
Body Brokers · Unsolved Murders · Murder at the Cottage
Plus: Sammy the Bull's podcast has arrived
More "Meta" True-Crime Fiction · John Walsh · Teresa Giudice
Plus, dumpster tapes and a garbage grand jury