Killer Lies: Chasing A True-Crime Con Man is the best of both worlds
the true crime that's worth your time
The crime
Fraud, although Stéphane Bourgoin's retailing of himself as an expert on serial killers didn't qualify as a chargeable offense.
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The story
NatGeo's Killer Lies: Chasing A True-Crime Con Man has a lot to recommend it. National Geographic's true-crime content tends towards the straightforward and proficient, and Killer Lies is no different. It's directed by Ben Selkow (Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and Trafficked, among others); it's got access to case figures and knowledgeable commentators, including Bourgoin himself, and our esteemed colleague Sarah Weinman; and it's based on a meta banger of a longread from April of 2022, Lauren Collins's Bourgoin deep dive for The New Yorker, "Murder, He Wrote."
