Looking back at Gone in the Night
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You've watched Mastermind: To Think Like A Killer. What's next?
[for more from this installment of Pairings from SDB, click here — or get a paid sub and read this in your inbox] Mastermind: To Think Like A Killer dropped...
The Docket 07.11.24: Road-trip listens
[subscribe to the Docket on your pod app, or listen here!] It's summer, and for a lot of us, that means hitting the highway (or the airport lounge) -- so...
5 true crime longreads to get you through this long week
Levi Axtell Credit: Grand Marais Police Department The week after a holiday break can be unrelenting in its combination of drudgery (a taste of freedom makes...
Carrie Carolyn Coco isn't a conventional crimoir
[SDB’s full review of Sarah Gerard’s new book is here, or you can get a paid subscription and see it, and all our other content, in full in your inbox!] The...
Looking back at The Misbegotten Son
Over the course of the summer, we’ll be doing a look back at the 1994 Edgar Award nominees for Best Fact Crime. …Our next 1994 Edgar nominee is The...
Looking back at Lindbergh: The Crime
The cover of 1994 Edgars nominee Lindbergh: The Crime Paid Best Evidence supporters get every review in their inbox, and free subscribers can click through...
June 2024 Bonus Review: An American Bombing
Key art from An American Bombing. (HBO) The crime The April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK. The explosion...
Dark Tide: Growing Up with Ted Bundy is a thoughtful act of catharsis
Bundy (right) with Dark Tide author Edna Cowell Martin's mother and brother (left). Courtesy photo. Supporters receive every Best Evidence article in their...
The Docket 06.24.24: Salute To America/n
full episode here! We're celebrating America's birthday a little early with a list of the best and most notable (to us) true-crime properties with...
30 For 30's Stanley Cup riot episode doesn't score
The crimeOn June 15, 2011, the Boston Bruins and the Vancouver Canucks faced off in a Stanley Cup Game 7 in Vancouver, BC. It didn't go well for the Canucks,...
How much true crime is on Donald Sutherland's c.v.?
[read SDB’s whole BET-CRP rundown right here — or grab a paid subscription and get the whole direct to your inbox!) When the great Donald Sutherland passed...
Should you check into Hotel Cocaine?
Danny Pino as Roman Compte in Hotel Cocaine, though I certainly understand why you're wondering "is that John Mulaney?" Credit: MGM+ Best Evidence supporters...
The Docket 06.20.24 There Is No Ethan
[listen here] At long last, we’re discussing Anna Akbari’s There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America’s Biggest Catfish, which is Akbari’s account of...
Does Cult Massacre: One Day In Jonestown have anything else to say?
The crimeIf you've clicked on this review to find out whether to bother with Cult Massacre: One Day In Jonestown, I can't imagine you don't know the basics...
Two filmic takes on the Lonely Hearts Killers
[read both reviews right here with a paid sub, or click through to see SDB’s coverage] There's something off-putting to me about the so-called Lonely Hearts...
Tell Them You Love Me tells a complicated and painful story with grace
Daisy, Derrick, and John Johnson in a stall from "Tell Them You Love Me." Credit: Netflix Best Evidence members get our full review of Tell Them You Love Me...
The Docket 06.13.24: Linklater Hollandsworth LLC
Glen Powell in Hit Man and Jack Black in Bernie. Richard Linklater adapted another Skip Hollandsworth joint almost 15 years ago, which became Bernie; now he...
6 true-crime longreads: Matthew Perry, Mindhunter, muddled crime stats
It's wedding and commencement season, and you know what that means! …Well, yes, bright futures, love is in the air, all that good stuff, but it also means a...
Where Texas Monthly's Hit Man ends, Richard Linklater's Hit Man begins
The crimeMurder for hire. Almost. [read the whole email right now with a paid sub…or click through for SDB’s full review] The storyIt feels like we started...