Jailhouse Lawyers · Dead Presidents · Con(gres)s(men)
Plus Episcopaliananigans and college-town dispatches
Sarah Lawrence · Houston · Second Seasons
Plus: should "conventionally attractive men" play killers?
What unbelievably dumb crimes should become prestige properties?
Huge thanks to Calcs at Cup Of Coffee for tipping me to a real Darwin Award of a crime story out of Milwaukee. The complaint says the man attended a Sept. 8...
Amber Alerts · Idaho Misinfo · WWE
Plus: A true crime podcaster who is ducking the spotlight
Norman Mailer · The Boston Strangler
And soccer and sedition
Andrew Tate · Rick Singer · Capitol cover-up
Plus: Is the new Madoff docuseries timely or past the sell-by date?
Revenge Of Sh*tty Media Man · R. Kelly · Jamie Spears
Plus Princess Doe, a missing O'Jay, and more
Kaleidoscope · Idaho · Floribama
Plus: The results of our cold case poll
Let's hear those true-crime resolutions
I got closer to zeroing out my Goodreads challenge in 2022 than I ever had. Not “close,” exactly, but close-r. It’s my year this year, though! I’m-a do it!...
December 2022 Bonus Review, Pt. 2: Kilgallen
The writers vs. the rest of it
December 2022 Bonus Review, Pt. 1: Murder One
The writing vs. the rest of it
AirTags · Glee · 911
Part two of our end-of-year budget doc cleanout
JonBenét · Hackers · Playboy
Part one of our two-part end-of-year budget doc cleanup
D.B. Cooper, unbound · Waxworks · Feeling gross
Sarah's favorite criminal scales the Best Evidence paywall
Did you get a crime-related gift this year?
If you’re like me, you spent the morning picking up errant shreds of wrapping paper, looking contentedly at a fridge of leftovers, and mulling your gift...
Best Of 2022: True-crime hopes and dreams
What we -- and you -- want from the genre in '23
Best Of 2022: Most anticipated true crime in 2023
Plus Mary Roach, David Faux-wie, and checking Santos's list
"Best" Of 2022: The year's biggest disappointments
Bad Bad Vegan, no biscuit! For the last week or so, we’ve been talking with a prized panel of colleagues about the best (and the rest) true crime of 2022....
Best Of 2022: True crime's hidden gems
Plus cop-drama drama, and engraging (?) longreads
Best Of 2022: "Vintage" true-crime finds
Plus JFK docs and wine deals
Best Of 2022: Best dramatic adaptations
Plus: this meeting of the Arthur Bell Appreciation Society will now come to order
Best Of 2022: Top true-crime documentaries and docuserieseses
Plus podcast justice, and stupid DHS tricks
Best Of 2022: Most engrossing true-crime longread
Plus Golden Globes nominations, and "Fyre II: Even Fyrier"?
Best Of 2022: Favorite true-crime podcasts
Cons, elections, Holmes -- and one clear favorite
Best Of 2022: Favorite true-crime book
From Alice to Zodiac, some of the year's top reads
Laundering Art · Climbing Denali · Suing Cos
And: all is not OK at the Exactly Right corral...again
The Grey's Anatomy Grifter · Murph The Surf
Plus filial ID fraud, a crime reporter's lost ancestor, and more
True-crime gaming
I’ve come across a lot of hilarrible ‘70s true-crime board games in my shop-acquisition travels of late. The hilar- part comes primarily from the fonts, and...
Mark Geragos · Piers Morgan · Joe Berlinger
Plus: True-crime podcast stats that might leave you dispirited
Kilgallen · NXIVM · SDB vs. DVR
Plus Delvey and JLaw, Somerton Man, and wanting better for Elizabeth Vargas
Various Texas Killing Things · RIP, HLN · The Teacher's Pet
Plus: Danny Masterson's reboot
Snapchat · Streamers · The Boy In The Box
Plus more Capote, interrogating fingerprints, and more
November 2022 Bonus Review: Booker's Place
A small town; a wide view
What true crime are you giving for the holidays?
Etsy seller SmokeyandBanditCo I don’t need to tell you that the season of gifts approaches. From the 47097107301 emails from vendors touting their “biggest...
Amazon Sneakers · Gubu · Jeffrey Dean Morgan
This might be our biggest monthly budget sweep ever
Christian Slater · Truman Capote · The Lindbergh Nanny
A BET-CRP and a book Line-Up
It's your holiday weekend open thread
I was at Trader Joe’s last night and it was basically a crime scene. Or a riot? Especially in the produce section, which, yay vegetables, boo seemingly...
Brian Laundrie · The Chrisleys · Tom Petty
Jeopardy's true-crime effort gets buzzed
Spector: "You can forget a person; you never forget a song"
Plus Holmes and homes
How Keith Raniere is attempting to hijack crime reporting — and what that could mean for true crime
A Best Evidence investigation
American Serial Killers · Former MLB Players · Vehicular Forensics
Plus Young Dolph and Charles Cullen
Which disgracios cause the most arguments at the holidays?
Which formerly beloved, now felonious/disgraced figures will cause the most arguments during your holidays? Eve and I both know people who still consult...
Ted Lasso · FTX · Barstool Sports
Plus: An unlikely rape counselor emerges
Prince Andrew: Banished · Alec Baldwin vs. Everybody
Plus "Crawlspace," "Murdaugh Murders," larceny karma, and more
It's an all-Scientology issue!
Plus: A decade of hope can still be true crime-y
Stranger At The Gate: "These people were just plain old pleasant"
Plus Casey Anthony, Ryan Murphy, and more adventures in the book trade
8 new true-crime longreads to help you escape the news
Even if the election turned out *exactly* as you hoped, these stories will be a welcome break
Election Day escapism-recs thread!
For many of us, this Election Day is a horror film we both cannot and must look away from (see also: the uncontrolled demolition of Twitter), so let’s think...
Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty · Crime-wave rhetoric
Plus dinners to die for?
2012 Flashback: The Act of Killing
Plus: If you disappeared, who will cover your case?