Swedish Scarf · Telemarketers · Mushrooms
Do the SF 49ers have a crime curse?
The Docket 08.10.23 Manson: The "Major-est" Case
Why it still endures; what that should look like going forward
The Retrievals
The crimeIn 2020, a nurse at the Yale University fertility treatment clinic was arrested when it was discovered she had been swapping the content of fentanyl...
What about cameras in the courtroom?
“The broadcast of the OJ Simpson murder trial was a formative moment for me,” I heard myself say the other day. Setting aside what a choad I sound like when...
Putting 4 Recent Netflix Docuseries In The Line-Up
Plus detectives' tunnel vision, Gilgo Beach commentary, and more
Andrew Tate · Car Break-Ins · Poltergeist Girl
Hulu appears very eager for me to watch Demons & Saviors this weekend. What a terrible title, right? You expect a badly dyed Tom Hanks in the Vatican with a...
The Docket 08.03.23 Murphy x Menendez
Is the Menendez case a camp sinkhole for scripted projects; whither the Ryan Murphy acting corps; which Murphy series is the “bridge line”; when...
The Sixth Commandment · The Fugitive
Plus Lizzo, Vallow, Unruh, and a (justly overlooked) lamster competition
When it's best to binge (and when it's not)
I’ve always been curious about the decision to release a property all at once, versus portioning it out week by week. Sometimes, it’s seemed like a...
Ashley Judd · Brooklyn Teens · YouTube Divers
Get out from under that heat dome with the July budget sweep
July 2023 Bonus Review: Kent State
Sometimes, knowledge IS power
Sinéad O'Connor · OMitB · NYPD
Plus: A small town bad cop longread
The Docket 07.27.23 Ask Us Anything!
You had questions; we (sometimes) had answers!
Evidence Of Things Seen · Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil
Plus Erin Lee Carr, Etan Patz, and Emmett Till
Red flags: true-crime "experts" you don't trust
Dr. Henry Lee peers at bloodstains on an envelope during the OJ Simpson trial. (Getty via Daily Beast) I can’t say I was surprised to read the headline DPB...
Myth of the Zodiac Killer · The Heiress and the Heist
Plus NJ's Ponzi king and NYPD's serial litterer
Last Call · Beanie Babies · James Lewis
Plus: The FBI's relationship with true crime
The Docket 07.20.23 The Emmys
Predictions, "the Plemons thing," and justice for Showtime
Five quickies
Burnout+vacation+sleep deprivation=Eve begs your indulgence
Hall Of Shame: sports-adjacent true crime
Faking sigs, throwing bricks, dodging taxes, robbing banks