Welcome to the last day of Best Evidence’s fifth annual Year in Review! For the last two weeks, we’ve celebrated the best true crime of the year, and we’ve rolled our eyes at some of the worst. You can find the whole series — as well as our past years in review — on our Year in Review page.

For our final entry, we’re sharing our hopes for the true crime genre in 2026. Thank you for reading, and happy new year.

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But if not, we hope you’ll continue to click through our emails to read each Best Evidence story in full. Here’s today’s, tyia.