Checking In On Your True-Crime Pandemic
Get ready, everyone: every news outlet you can think of is readying their “one year in lockdown” packages, full of frustrated salon owners, angry anti-...
Green River · Red Justice · Scott Peterson
Plus: A 2010 memoir gets a Kingsman
The Body Farm · Jill Harth vs. Trump · Dryden, NY vs. fate
Plus Andy Mills, an upstate fugitive, and a poll
Unpublishing Crime · Robert Downey Jr. · Amanda Knox
Plus: a missing person podcast
"Ovation on the streets, Oxygen in the sheets" · Hallmark true crime
Plus Discovery+ premieres, Holmesian motives, and more
Questioning The Taste Level: The Tackiest Titles In True Crime
Inspired by both the end of the era vulgaris in Washington this week and a related Twitter thread in which the more harmless stupidities of the former...
The Serpent · The Pembrokeshire Murders · Dosa King
Hope you've got room in your ears for some podcasts
January 20, 2021
“In Tish James we trust.” But until she drops a literal ton of filings on the outgoing administration, we can gather here if needed. — SDB
Phil Spector · The Soprano State · American Greed
Plus art looters, Bigfoot, and more soothing longreads than you can shake a stick at
Where To Begin, Mr. President?
E. Jean Carroll @ejeancarrollIs Trump KIDDING? Sending Heidi Stirrup to the DOJ to get dirt on me? The dirtiest thing that has ever happened to me is TRUMP....
Mostly Harmless · Black Hands · Impeachment
Also: Lifetime announces its true crime slate
More DB Cooper · Netflix's Night Stalker · The Navy-Vets Con
Plus new trailers, upcoming premieres, and the soothing properties of forgery
Reenactments · Trap Queens · Cell Phone Jammers
Also: A podcast about crimes in the trucking biz? Yes, please.
The Lady and The Dale · The Charley Project · Jury Duty
(Not us, thankfully.) Plus a mommyblogger's fake kidnap scare, and a journo scam.
SDB's Forcening: The Murders at White House Farm
Not without interest, but not in need of six episodes, either
Alexander Wang · Florida Man Murders · Chicano Squad
Plus: Dateline on police violence
Neverland Sold · Brady v. Maryland · Conversations With OJ
Plus a Quibi deal and crime on ice
Samuel Little · Danny Masterson · The Serpent
Plus: a new book on the victims of the Golden State Killer
Lillo Brancato · Discovery+ · TikTok Cracks Cold Case
Plus "Gilligan's Island" versus everybody
December Bonus Book Review: Notorious New Jersey
Jon Blackwell's omnibus of Garden State crooks and crimes is a great bathroom book