Read-Handed: Plagiarism, puppy-napping, and police corruption
Read-Handed is our occasional feature updating you on true-crime books, listens, research etc. that we're in the middle of right now. We hope you'll add YOUR...
The Breakthrough hit big on Netflix. Why?
The Swedish docudrama about a 2004 double murder is surprisingly buzzy. Should you see what everyone's talking about? SDB’s full review is here…but you can...
Lucy Worsley Investigates: Where "cozy British mystery" and "true crime" meet
The Beeb2 history series kicked off its second series with a Jack the Ripper episode. Should you brew a cuppa and tune in? Find out here (or grab a paid sub...
Lady of the Dunes is ALMOST interesting, by accident
My full review of Oxygen’s deeply typical, but allllmost compelling, take on Provincetown’s majorest case is right here. Grab a paid subscription and you’ll...
Read-Handed: The Big Apple, the White House, and the frozen north
Read-Handed is an occasional feature updating you on true-crime books, listens, research etc. that we're in the middle of right now. We hope you'll add YOUR...
Our hopes for true crime in 2025
We've reached the final day of Best Evidence's annual Year in Review series, which you are presumably reading through a pair of those funny "2025" glasses...
December 2024 Bonus: The Mole Agent
The crimeChilean private investigator Rómulo Aitken has a client who believes that her elderly mother may be the victim of theft and abuse at the mother's...
The worst true crime of 2024
Best Evidence’s tagline is "the true crime that's worth your time," and that's one of the reasons we do this annual Year in Review series — we want to make...
The hidden true crime gems you missed in 2024
Today is my second-favorite (after our longread list) in Best Evidence’s annual Year in Review series. I love talking about properties that were overlooked...
The most anticipated true crime properties of 2025
We're looking to the future for today's installment in Best Evidence’s Year in Review. (If you're just catching up, here are our lists of the best vintage...
Our favorite throwback true crime properties in 2024
Supporters get every Best Evidence article in their inbox, while free subscribers can click through to read at Reality Blurred. We're starting this week of...
The best true crime dramas of 2024
As we reach the end of the first Year in Review (Best Evidence’s fourth annual, I should note), I’m already overwhelmed by all the remarkable best true crime...
The best true crime documentaries of 2024
Welcome to day four of Best Evidence’s fourth annual Year in Review, in which we celebrate the best true crime properties, complain about the worst, and spin...
The best true crime longreads of 2024
Welcome to day three of Best Evidence's fourth annual Year in Review, in which we celebrate the best true crime properties, complain about the worst, and...
The best true crime podcasts of 2024
Welcome to day two of Best Evidence's fourth annual Year in Review, in which we celebrate the best true crime properties, complain about the worst, and spin...
The best true crime books of 2024
Welcome to Best Evidence's fourth annual Year in Review, in which we celebrate the best true crime properties, complain about the worst, and spin hopeful...
The Elissas: Crimoir and compromise
The crimeBroadly, the Troubled Teen Industry – unregulated at best, fraudulent and abusive at worst. Specifically, the untimely death of author Samantha...
Making Manson: We're still listening to his name
The crimeI assume I don't have to go over the particulars of August 8-10, 1969 yet again. We do apparently have some reason to doubt the culpability of...
V13: Chronicle of a Trial struggles to make sense of the 2015 Paris massacre
On Friday November 13, 2015, a series of coordinated terror attacks throughout Paris killed 130 people, most of them young people attending a rock concert....
Jailbreak: Love on the Run is a prisoner of convention
The crimeIn late April of 2022, Alabama corrections officer Vicky White facilitated the escape of her incarcerated lover, Casey White, shocking her friends...