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November 2022 Bonus Review: Booker's Place
$ · November 30, 2022
A small town; a wide view
What true crime are you giving for the holidays?
November 30, 2022
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
November 29, 2022
This might be our biggest monthly budget sweep ever
Christian Slater · Truman Capote · The Lindbergh Nanny
$ · November 28, 2022
A BET-CRP and a book Line-Up
It's your holiday weekend open thread
November 23, 2022
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
November 22, 2022
Jeopardy's true-crime effort gets buzzed
Spector: "You can forget a person; you never forget a song"
$ · November 21, 2022
Plus Holmes and homes
How Keith Raniere is attempting to hijack crime reporting — and what that could mean for true crime
November 18, 2022
A Best Evidence investigation
American Serial Killers · Former MLB Players · Vehicular Forensics
November 17, 2022
Plus Young Dolph and Charles Cullen
Which disgracios cause the most arguments at the holidays?
November 16, 2022
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
November 15, 2022
Plus: An unlikely rape counselor emerges
Prince Andrew: Banished · Alec Baldwin vs. Everybody
$ · November 14, 2022
Plus "Crawlspace," "Murdaugh Murders," larceny karma, and more
It's an all-Scientology issue!
November 11, 2022
Plus: A decade of hope can still be true crime-y
Stranger At The Gate: "These people were just plain old pleasant"
November 10, 2022
Plus Casey Anthony, Ryan Murphy, and more adventures in the book trade
8 new true-crime longreads to help you escape the news
November 9, 2022
Even if the election turned out *exactly* as you hoped, these stories will be a welcome break
Election Day escapism-recs thread!
November 8, 2022
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
$ · November 7, 2022
Plus dinners to die for?
2012 Flashback: The Act of Killing
November 4, 2022
Plus: If you disappeared, who will cover your case?
2012 Flashback: Siege · Killer Sally
November 3, 2022
And DB, and J.Law
What cases — and properties — from 2012 have stuck with us?
November 2, 2022
We’re halfway through our 2012 flashback week, during which contrib Margaret Howie runs down some of the more intriguing true crime efforts from a decade...
2012 Flashback: The Girl Who Became Three Boys
November 1, 2022
Plus: The Delphi murders and a true crime plea
October 2022 Bonus Review: Keeper Of The Ashes
$ · October 31, 2022
Everything about it is a waste
2012 Flashback: Paan Singh Tomar · Crackpot Ripperology
$ · October 31, 2022
Plus Scientology, Joe Exotic's legal team, and Willowbrook
Joyce Carol Oates · Vatican Girl · Cannabis
October 28, 2022
It's the October budget sweep!
The Good Nurse · Not Great, Bob!
October 27, 2022
Plus governors, gangsters, and hackers
So what *are* the true crime Halloween costume rules?
October 26, 2022
evelbA post shared by Eve Batey (@evelb) Photo: Halloween 2015, when my husband and I dressed up like two fictional murderers, which I guess is OK? We’ve all...
The 10 best quotes from Joe Berlinger's odd Bloomberg profile
October 25, 2022
Plus: Elizabeth Holmes, Vivica A. Fox, and more
Party Theft · Jazz-Age Phrogging · TV Babylon
$ · October 24, 2022
And a great and terrible British documentary
Six (alleged) rogues and Kevin Bacon
October 21, 2022
It's an all TV/movie star edition!
Facebook Sleuths · Jersey Psychics
October 20, 2022
Plus, "The Watcher"? We hardly even know 'er
From the archives: "King Con"
October 19, 2022
Hey, friends — unexpected scheduling conflict at BE HQ today, so I’ve grabbed a book review of Paul Willetts’s King Con from a few years ago. More good stuff...
It's time to talk about 'Unsolved Mysteries'
October 18, 2022
For many of us here, NBC’s launched-in-1987 series Unsolved Mysteries was our gateway to true crime, an initially limited show that kicked off with hosts...
The Vow Part 2: Collateral; damage
$ · October 17, 2022
Plus Forbes and NPR weigh in; and Robert Urich, Bet-Crapped
Kim Kardashian · Adnan Syed · Chess
October 14, 2022
Are you watching 'The Watcher'?
Michael Moore · Quiz Show · Cemetery Stories
October 13, 2022
Plus serial-scopes and Spotify
Angela Lansbury · House Arrest · Club 219
October 12, 2022
Plus: The Serial saga comes to a quiet close for everyone but the victim
What are your favorite true crime urban legends?
October 11, 2022
That’s a nope, per Snopes. It makes sense that a topic as loaded as crime should be beset by misinformation, myth, and Mandela effects — after all, it’s...
Errol Morris · Danny Masterson · Airbnb
October 7, 2022
Plus: Your true-crime weekend
The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes: When does scarcity equal value?
October 6, 2022
Plus "murderabilia" and internet burnout
What TV stars should launch side hustles as true crime podcast hosts?
October 5, 2022
We had a little fun yesterday with the NYT’s wide-eyed “golly gee” reporting on Dateline’s podcasting success. But, let’s give credit where credit is due: it...
Catching up with true crime TV
October 4, 2022
The latest true crime headlines dealing with the small screen
A Dahmer fact-check, a minor "Unsolved Mysteries," and ants on a plane
$ · October 3, 2022
Plus: how to revisit Serial
Brett Favre · The Watcher · Ezra Miller
September 30, 2022
It's the September budget sweep, fall break edition!
The September 2022 Bonus Review: I Don't Like Mondays
$ · September 29, 2022
The 2006 TV doc tries to "tell you why," but can't get there
A peek over the paywall
September 29, 2022
Dopesick, Sherry Pie, JonBenét, and Fred and Rose West
Do you only take your crime "true"?
September 28, 2022
I don’t read much fiction, period — but when I do, it’s almost always crime/mystery fiction with a recognizable IRL element (and/or by an author known to me;...
Calendars, maps, and charts (oh my)
September 27, 2022
Help edit SDB's content crazy wall!
Zodiac · Gabby Petito
September 26, 2022
We kick off fall break with reviews of two high-profile properties
It's an all-'celebrity' true crime edition
September 23, 2022
Reality TV contestants, Food Network chefs and CW drama stars all get their day in court
Monster: "He was a strange boy"
September 22, 2022
Plus Big Pharma, the McCanns, and carceral retaliation
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