True Crime A To Z: H
Welcome to Best Evidence’s crime-alphabet project! Not sure what the hell we’re doing here? Start at the beginning, and add your own nominees! A week in,...
Killing Eve · The Electric Chair · Deadly Cults
Also: Eve blames the Kent State massacre for the decades-later death of the Village Voice.
True Crime A To Z: G
Welcome to Best Evidence’s crime-alphabet project! Not sure what the hell we’re doing here? Start at the beginning! Today’s G line-up contains only one...
I'll Be Gone In The Dark · George Clooney
Also: A San Quentin Pulitzer
True Crime A To Z: F
Welcome to Best Evidence’s crime-alphabet project! Not sure what the hell we’re doing here? Check it out. What true-crime properties does the panel give an F...
The Blotter Presents 142: Stolen Babies and The Phoebe Judge Interview
Plus Wood, Weinman, longread Buntnip, and more
True Crime A To Z: E
Welcome to Best Evidence’s crime-alphabet project! Not sure what the hell we’re doing here? Check it out. It’s time to contemplate crimes in the key of E....
Nicolas Cage · Gary Busey · Waco
Also: How Prince Charles was scammer by a forger
True Crime A To Z: D
Welcome to Best Evidence’s crime-alphabet project! Not sure what the hell we’re doing here? Check it out. Our panel is taking on its fourth letter of the...
American Crime Story · James Baldwin · ID's New Look
Plus "Leo In The White City" and two from the New Yorker.
True Crime A To Z: C
Welcome to Best Evidence’s crime-alphabet project! Not sure what the hell we’re doing here? Check it out. Now C (sorry) (…not REALLY sorry) you in the...
True Crime A To Z: B
Welcome to Best Evidence’s crime-alphabet project! Not sure what the hell we’re doing here? Check it out. Now eat a B (hee) in the comments…and tell a...
True Crime A To Z: A
Welcome to Best Evidence’s crime-alphabet project! A handful of contributors and I have gone through the English alphabet and picked a true-crime thing for...
April Bonus Review #2: American Sherlock
An ovewritten slog through the life and career of E.O. Heinrich
The Last Narc · Quiz · Hollywood Con Queen
Also: Stealing from Harry Winston
The Blotter Presents 141: Bad Education and Frontline's "Terror In Little Saigon"
Plus Baskin agonistes, Loughlin motions, and the true-crime alphabet
Murder To Mercy · Bad Education · Spotify
Also: True crime through victims' eyes
True-Crime Title Bingo · Live PD, COVID-style · Smerling vs. McGinniss
Plus a book poll -- and actors, amirite?
Friday Thread: #1 With A Bullet
In my first bonus book review for April, I raved about Rap On Trial (not a paid subscriber? There’s an excerpt of the book here). That got me wondering about...
April Bonus Review #1: Rap On Trial
For people of color, "America's deep-seated fascination with the outlaw" plays the same way it always does.