Putting the "duh" back in "double indemnity"
Plus monumental protests and missing caskets
Hypnosis · JP Morgan · Anna Delvey
Plus: More on the University of Idaho slayings
The Docket 06.15.23 The Crowded Room and OJ's legacy
A listener call gets real about DID; trauma becoming IP; when the actor gets the blame but isn’t the problem; short kings; how the OJ trial changed true...
Jared Fogle · Dowries · Bryan Singer
Plus: A BE bestie on Based on a True Story
The best Unabomber remembrances in the game
Please tap through this photo’s link to see photographer Richard Barnes’s fascinating explanation of this photo of Kaczynski’s cabin. If you’ve been on the...
Tawana Brawley · Timothy McVeigh · Tennessee Williams
And "Law & Order," and La Cosa Nostra
Influencers · Reptiles · Jimmy Pesto
Plus: The CW trades DC for TC
The Docket 06.08.23 Milligan and Parchman
The DID/true-crime Venn, plus upcoming projects
Tweakerworld · Zodiac · Scientology
Plus: Robert Hanssen, remembered
Summer-reading bingo, true-crime version
Anyone else got a summer-reading bingo card going? I’ve got high hopes for knocking one off this year; get your own card from our esteemed colleague...
Duggars · Darden · Death on the Lot
Plus: the changeling narrative in American culture and other longreads
Music · Max · Medicine
It's the May budget sweep!
The Docket 06.01.23
Mamet, Stone, Sebold, and the faulty narratives that endure
Natalia Grace · Elizabeth Holmes · Anna Delvey
Plus: Leslie Van Houten's parole chances
True cringe: vintage true crime's biggest dealbreakers
Not even this author’s worst offense in this regard IMO. Let’s face it: the punchbowl of “heritage” true crime contains many a turd. But I don’t mean the...
May 2023 Bonus Review: Who Killed Robert Wone?
A story about competing (and missing) stories
Randall and Sex Scandals · Judy Malinowski · Burden of Proof
Plus: a 1920s crime, revived
The Docket 05.25.23: Incarceration franchises and Nancy Grace
"60 Days In," Pacey Witter, and hard-hair blondes
Debunking the "CSI Effect"
Plus: Rolf Harris and HH Holmes
Why does the Idaho Murders/Bryan Kohberger case continue to fascinate?
Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of fatally stabbing University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Madison Mogen, was in...