Lawyers for Adnan Syed have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his case. The AP reports that on Monday, Syed’s defense team filed papers with SCOTUS (you can read the full petition here) asking that they “order a new trial for Syed and reverse a Maryland court ruling against him.”

According to CNN, lawyers C. Justin Brown and Catherine Stetson are staying on the ineffective counsel argument we’ve seen since the majority of us heard of the case. "At least 10 state and federal courts apply a simple approach: They compare the case that the State actually presented at trial with the case that the defendant would have presented if his attorney had been effective,” the petition reads, citing Cristina Gutierrez’s failure to call Asia McClain as a witness to Syed’s alibi.

"The facts of this case are eye-catching,” the petition notes. “One high school student murdered and another sentenced to life in prison. A prosecution witness with an inconsistent story and an alibi witness who never testified at trial. Syed's case has inspired podcasts, a documentary, and countless news articles.” To that point, if you want to catch up on the case via The Blotter Presents, Sarah and I discussed HBO doc The Case Against Adnan Syed back in March, in an episode you can listen to here. -- EB

Spotify Parcast has just launched a daily true-crime show. It’s called Today in True Crime, and its premise is kind of clever: “Every day, we flip back the calendar and examine a true crime event from the same date years ago.” The episodes (there are two so far) are tightly produced and concisely presented, with a runtime of less that 20 minutes per, and are hosted by Vanessa Richardson, who is also on the mic for Parcast’s Serial Killers show.

The length smacks a bit of market research, as the average U.S. commute is 25 or so minutes -- but, honestly, I’m not complaining, because I only have so much time to listen to podcasts and my backlog is starting to stress me out! Monday’s was on the Ypsilanti Ripper, and today’s is on the Lead Masks case. By mid-September, the show will start featuring “other true-crime podcast personalities” for Wednesday guest appearances. You can give it a listen here. -- EB

Rachel DeLoache Williams is making the podcast rounds in support of her book on Anna Sorokin. As previously discussed, Williams is the author of My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress, a memoir of her experiences with the so-called Soho Grifter. She just promoted its publication on The Guardian Books podcast, detailing for host Sian Cain exactly how she realized her newish buddy wasn’t a socialite after all. The horror! You can listen to the thrilling account here. --EB

The CBC is going to adapt a couple of its popular true crime pods for TV. Details on the projects are scarce, but according to a press release from the outlet, Someone Knows Something and Uncover’s “The Village” season will be headed to the small screen.

Someone Knows Something’s in its fourth season, with each detailing a different case. CBC hasn’t specified which season is up for adaptation, but says that the show will be a scripted one (which means that once we know the case, we can do some fantasy casting!). Uncover’s also in its fourth year, but its adaptation is my favorite of its seasons, the serial killer that stalked Toronto's Gay Village until police made an arrest last year. It’s unclear if that one will be a documentary or dramatic take on the matter. -- EB

Investigation Discovery has added several UK properties to its portfolio. The British media press says that Discovery has invested in 39 hours of true crime content from the country, which if you added coffee and burrito delivery also sounds like my ideal weekend. It’s part of a deal with Arrow Media, which is also behind shows like Ted Bundy: Mind of a Monster. (I gotta be honest with you: when I went to Arrow’s Instagram page and saw that I have more followers than they do, I got a little charge! How petty and small is that?) The shows from that company will include season three of The Devil Speaks, in which we enter “a warm and happy world of people whose lives are about to be overturned by a brutal murder.” Fun!

In addition, ID has ponied up for British Police: Our Toughest Cases, a new series on “the cases that devastated communities in the UK” by Woodcut Media. They’ve also greenlit season two of The Killer In My Family, a series about “homicide and its impact from the perspectives of murderer’s family members and those who knew the killer personally.” -- EB

Not that its relevant to our purposes, but when I was clicking around on Arrow’s site, I found another of their offerings: My Gay Pet and Other Animals. I might have to book a trip so I can get a look at this one. I must know more!

Wednesday on Best Evidence: It’s The Blotter Presents episode 109, on which Sarah will be joined by Will Leitch to discuss Mindhunter and The Informant!

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