"It's brutal": Leo Frank and true crime at the theater
A conversation with Adam Grosswirth about "Parade"
"No relation": sharing names with the notorious
When I got married, I didn’t change my name. DPB didn’t care, I didn’t feel like it, and life has enough paperwork you don’t have a choice about. But we did...
Spiders · Long Movies · Trump
Your opinion sought on televised trials
Trailed · Reverend Mother · Murder & Basketball
Leave the Pope out of it, will ya?
March 2023 Bonus Review: Wife, Mother, Murderer
It's not bad, but it's probably not worth your time, either
Scott Peterson · The Colorado Cannibal · Scenes From A Textbook Scam
Plus a century-old con and another murderous dentist
Heidi Fleiss · Hillsong · ChatGPT
Welcome to the March budget sweep. It's a doozy!
Hollywood is Hollywood
A roundup of recent tinseltown-related true crime
"Breakout hits": favorite lam/escape properties
Muse Watson as Charles “DB Cooper” Westmoreland on Prison Break. I should probably get locked up for that pun, but anyway: what are your favorite/recommended...
"Waco" on Netflix · Eilish on "Swarm" · Vengeance on OKCupid
Plus Susan on the Edgars, and a Texas scamfluencer on trial
Join the Best Evidence chat
More true-crime connects and recs
Girl Scouts · Crackpots · Crime Seen
Plus BET-CRP planning and your weekend watches
Prick up your ears
A bounty of Bunting on crime audio from the archives
What's your serial killer required reading list?
When I was writing up my thoughts on Boston Strangler yesterday, I was surprised to discover that its source material wasn’t a book. That revelation is...
Slenderman · Boston Strangler · Citizen Sleuth
Plus: A cell phone scam long read
Say Nothing · Furious Hours · My Friend Anna
Plus: What we were considering this weekend
Harvard Yard · Stanford University · Jussie Smollett
Plus: Mulling the Delphi murders
Criminal Minds · Naked City · Joe Pepitone
Caril Ann Fugate three ways, plus Foxy drops the mic
Girls · In The Dark · Oscar Isaac
Plus: Guess Eve's Kurt Vonnegut theory was wrong
Your Edgar Awards ballot
Awards season isn’t quite over — we’ve still got the 2023 Edgars to look forward to! Not to mention Susan Howard’s coverage of this year’s Best Fact Crime...