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
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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...
Blake, Dunne, and Capote
Plus, why Waco won't go anywhere
Peanut butter and jelly : Tech and crime
Plus: a lot going on this weekend!
Gilmore · MacDonald · Shakur · Kennedy · Nixon · Perry
And Spector, and Stone...a Robert Sam Anson reader
What true crime stories *shouldn't* be adapted?
As discussed on Best Evidence yesterday, the latest attempt to adapt H.H. Holmes-centric novel The Devil in the White City has tanked. As I read through the...
Frank Grillo · World's Fair · Jimmy Savile
Plus: An object lesson in how *not* to write about a school molestation scandal
Eliot Ness · Charlie Chaplin · Dick Wolf
Plus Judith Light, the Gentleman Bandit, and stupid title tricks
Life for Murdaugh · University of Idaho · Jussie Smollett
Plus: your podcast help requested