Baseball Myths · Black Widows · Bankman-Fried
Plus sketchy YouTube momagers, and a cold case gets cracked
Bugsy · Brett · Bird on the lam
Plus Santos, superfluous reporting, and your true-crime weekends
Hooray for Hollywood (true crime)
As folks return to the theater, true crime pictures get bigger
Let's talk about the Night Stalker
Richard Ramirez would have been 63 this month. He died nearly a decade ago (June 7, 2013, if you’re keeping track) in a hospital in tony Marin County,...
Armie Hammer · The Order · Authentic Wave
Plus: The bizarre true crime link to "Emancipation"
Martha Mitchell · Marilyn Manson · College Hoops
Plus AI, Adnan, and sponcon
Oakland · Anthony Palladino · Murf the Surf
Plus: Our true-crime weekend
Eric Adams · Mormons · A Groundhog Day BET-CRP
Plus the commercialization of documentaries
Black History Month: Recs and reqs
Black History Month gets underway today, and you know what that means. Thought-provoking discussion and reading/viewing, yes…but also cringey leveraging of...
Jerks · Backstories · Sports
It's the January budget doc sweep post
48 Hours · Rikers · The '70s
Plus a missing "trustafarian" and The Big Lie
January 2023 Bonus Review: You're Wrong About Henry Lee Lucas
Sarah Marshall and Rachel Monroe on how a garden-variety creep became an archetype
Justin Roiland · Elizabeth Holmes · Irish Dumping
Plus weekend (fiction?) watching
George Santos is the Zodiac*
Plus Kennedy, Koresh, and the Oscars
The Doodler · Anna Delvey · Rust Reactions
Plus: "Cold Justice" warms back up
When genres collide: What reality-show suspects deserve the true-crime treatment?
“Reality show or true crime series?” asked NPR this week. The subject in question was the he Real Housewives franchise, which has manufactured a multitude of...
Web Of Death · Sam Sheppard Jr. · The Murdaughs
Plus: you can't spell "Elizabeth Holmes" without "lam" (...allegedly)
Brett Kavanaugh · Meryl Streep · Mario Batali
Is that our most random subject line yet? y/n?
Slender Man · Black Dahlia · Accidental Presidents
Two hits and a whiff
True crime matchmaking: marry a great fiction writer with a great true crime case
One of my favorite lines in Glass Onion involves the intersection of fiction and crime. A Musk-like billionaire (Ed Norton) tells detective Benoit Blanc...