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September Bonus Reviews: Buzzfeed Unsolved True Crime and Dominick Dunne: After The Party
$ · October 1, 2021
The crimeIn the True Crime half of BuzzFeed’s Unsolved series (the other half is Supernatural), Ryan Bergara and his co-host look at “unsolved crimes,...
What MLM Needs The LuLaRich Treatment Next?
October 1, 2021
The same day we sent Elizabeth Held’s review of LuLaRich out to paid subscribers, I was driving on Indiana’s I-65 freeway when a drifted into my lane, nearly...
Soccer Sex Assaults · Lewandowski · Tiger King 2
September 30, 2021
Plus: The NYT's crime coverage problems
LuLaRoe and Pharma Bro
$ · September 29, 2021
Plus prison hell and Tobin Bell
A Fresh Batch of True Crimes (And Adjacents) That Are Ripe for Adaptation
September 28, 2021
The last couple days have been jam-packed with potential properties
The Hot Zone · House Beautiful · Houston's Biggest Monster
September 27, 2021
Plus Andrea Canning, an unjustly accused puma, and more
Do we know which cases will cause a media frenzy?
September 24, 2021
Could we have predicted the Petito media tsunami — and can we predict the next one? We and everyone else in the space have talked a lot in the last week or...
Curse Of The Chippendales · The Toolbox Killer
$ · September 23, 2021
Plus Buffy, Sassy, a book sale, and more
It's a budget-doc blowout
September 22, 2021
All the links we can fit, in one issue. You're welcome.
Nassar · Murdaugh · Petito
September 21, 2021
Also: Durst · Holmes · Kelly. Yeah, it's a lot.
Monsters Inside · Major-Case Headlines
September 20, 2021
Milligan, MacDonald, Murdaugh, and more
"By reason of mental disease or defect"
September 17, 2021
Joanne Woodward has concerns about Sally Field’s grabbing the pop-psych zeitgeist with both hands. (NBC) What better way to greet the weekend than with a...
San Quentin · Krysten Ritter
September 16, 2021
Eve plays Marry Fuck Kill with Reelz
The Falcon And The Snowman
$ · September 15, 2021
Plus "Dopesick," Da Vinci, and more
Michael Wolff · Danbury Trashers · Sirhan Sirhan
September 14, 2021
Podcasts present and future to mull
Only Murders In The Pod · Spider Sabich · ACS: Fact-Check
September 13, 2021
Plus two longreads on forensic genealogy finding justice
Never Forgetting
September 10, 2021
I don’t remember the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks as being this…insistent. On the eve of the 20th anniversary, though, after PR blasts about...
Queenpins · Prada · Dog the Bounty Hunter
September 9, 2021
Plus, Doppel-Holmeses
Americans Boogeyman and Crime Story
$ · September 8, 2021
Plus Sarah Delashmit and the latest on Gypsy Rose Blanchard
Michael K. Williams · Etsy · OnlyFans
September 7, 2021
A prestige panty raid?
August Bonus Review: The Salisbury Poisonings
$ · September 6, 2021
It's good, but it's also close enough to COVID home that it's kind of surprising it aired at all.
Honeytraps · Heidi Fleiss · Hardstark Agonistes
September 3, 2021
Plus a bunch of long-weekend reading
Suspects · R. Kelly · Laetitia
September 2, 2021
Plus: The Dropout drops some new episodes
American Crime Story: The '90s
September 1, 2021
Impeachment: American Crime Story bows next Tuesday. In contemplating this third installment, I realized that one of the franchise’s gifts is its focus on...
Only Murders In The Building, Reviewed · Melanie Lynskey, Bet-Crapped
August 31, 2021
Plus white-collar parolees, a Goffard deep cut, and more
Pam Hupp · Linda Tripp · Elizabeth Holmes
August 30, 2021
Plus: Real talk on fake killers
Bundy Bundy Lindy Harvey LLC
August 27, 2021
Plus Court TV, half-century fugitive runs, the Dresden job, and more
Billy Milligan · Sybil · Truddi Chase
August 26, 2021
There's a true crime element to most high-profile tales of DiD
What mundane schemes could make for terrific true crime?
August 25, 2021
Queenpins, a vaguely Good Girls-esque new movie about a coupon scam, is essentially based on the kind of shrug emoji broadcast crime story you’d forget by...
Spokesmen · Weinstein · Office Chairs
August 24, 2021
An AP story sends Eve down a dark path
The Best Evidence True-Crime Résumé Percentage
August 23, 2021
It's pronounced "Bet-Crap." Obviously. Also, "Bad Blood," Bundy, and Bill Kurtis.
The Modern Detective · The Cuomo-sical · David v. Dersh
August 20, 2021
Plus a book-thief mystery, and what happened to Kendrick Johnson
Berlinger Beef · Des Nilsen · Real Housewives
August 19, 2021
Plus: Eve's favorite true crime podcast name yet
What suspects should start their own podcasts?
August 18, 2021
As previously discussed, despite reports to the contrary, Florida congressman/alleged sex offender Matt Gaetz did not launch a podcast to defend himself:...
Studio 54 · Celebrity Rape Allegations · Dylan Howard
August 17, 2021
Plus: Confusion between various Rs
Sex Next Door · Monster In The Shadows · Snopes
August 16, 2021
Plus Mike Fanone, Mondrians in the john, and more
DB Cooper Crackpottery 1, Buntsy's Sanity 0
August 12, 2021
Plus Mr. Erika Jayne's office gets auctioned, the truth about Sam Bronfman, and much more
Jon Hamm · Rachel Uchitel · White House Plumbers
August 12, 2021
Plus: a Victorian-era serial killer
The worst governors (and the best true crime about them)
August 11, 2021
Hands where we can see ’em, “gentlemen.” (NYS Governor’s Office) Upon the inglorious occasion of Andrew Cuomo’s resignation from the governorship of New York...
OJ · Matt Gaetz · Carmel Pine Cone
August 10, 2021
Plus: a doc on sleep murder
CNBC's True-Crime Play?
August 9, 2021
Plus Tarantino's novel, future defendants in politics, and more
The Lost Leonardo · The Malice At The Palace · The Dropout
August 6, 2021
Plus a sobriety cult, Discovery steps to "Love After Lockup," and more
Cocaine Cowboys · Robert Durst · True Crime 'Junkies'
August 5, 2021
Plus: Bill Gates states the obvious
Shattered Glass: stories about stories
August 4, 2021
I’ve finally watched Shattered Glass and it’s as brilliant as I’d heard. The cast is amazing (and studded with true-crime “vets” like Sarsgaard, Sevigny,...
Stillwater · John DeLorean · Cuba Gooding
August 3, 2021
Plus: When a cop union shut up
Murder houses of the 213, memories of the 215
August 2, 2021
Plus wacky tobacky in the 212, a Leto/Tambor "Freaky Friday," and more
July Bonus Review: Generation Hustle
$ · July 31, 2021
A ten-episode tour of scammers and frauds that focuses on process
True-crime movies that Oscar forgot
July 30, 2021
Plus podcast news, and Edwardian police bungling treads the boards
A True-Crime Perfect 10
July 29, 2021
Best Evidence has Olympics fever! (Ugh, phrasing.)
Edgar Awards midyear predictions
July 28, 2021
The Townhouse, locus of much of the action in Last Call (SDB lived down the street in the mid-nineties). (Edward Keating / New York Times) “Hey, what’s the...
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