Michael Bay's Born Evil is a queasy mismatch of director and genre
The crimePer Max's promotional materials for Born Evil: The Serial Killer and the Savior: "Meet Hadden Clark, the most vicious serial killer you've never...
August 2024 Bonus Review: The Murder of Air McNair
[CW: mentions of suicide; my review will also contain spoilers] Steve McNair’s gravesite. (Netflix) The crimeThe 2009 murder of former NFL quarterback Steve...
Killer Lies: Chasing A True-Crime Con Man is the best of both worlds
The crimeFraud, although Stéphane Bourgoin's retailing of himself as an expert on serial killers didn't qualify as a chargeable offense. get the whole review...
Only Murders In The Building Season 4: Back to the old house
[CW: may contain spoilers for the show's 4th season] Only Murders In The Building has returned to Hulu with its fourth-season premiere, and while I've...
Worst Ex Ever illustrates how domestic violence flummoxes the legal system
Production still from Worst Ex Ever. Credit: Netflix Netflix's Worst [Something] Ever franchise might be one of its best-kept true crime secrets. That's not...
Face to Face with Scott Peterson: “Well, then who else did it?”
The crimeApologies for cribbing from my own American Murder: Laci Peterson review, but: On or around December 24, 2002, Laci Peterson – eight months pregnant...
American Murder: Laci Peterson and what makes a true-crime case indelible
The crimeOn or around December 24, 2002, Laci Peterson – eight months pregnant with her and her husband Scott's first child, a son they'd already named...
August and September are boom times for true crimecrime
Note: Typically, we’re proud to send the entire Best evidence article to your inbox — but as today’s dispatch is heavy on the trailers, you might want to...
The Docket 08.15.24: West Memphis 3 attorney Dan Stidham
Back in 1993, Dan Stidham began representing Jessie Misskelley Jr., one of the West Memphis 3 defendants -- and never gave up on his promise to free his...
Should you join Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club?
The crimeThe 1982 murder of Griffin Dunne's sister, Dominique; the second career Dunne's father, Dominick, then made reporting on high-profile trials for...
3 things that set Taken Together: Who Killed Lyric and Elizabeth? apart
The crimeYou may recognize the case from the docuseries' title; if you don't, you might get more out of Taken Together if you go in "cold." To do that,...
The Docket 08.08.24: Fake around and find out
[click here to listen now and for the full show notes!] Today we're talking fakes and forgeries of all sorts -- and more importantly, SDB's favorite...
Tricky Dick: “It’s as though he has needed enemies”
(Keep reading here) Richard Nixon pulls a face before a TV appearance, as shown in Tricky Dick. (CNN)
From the archives: The Best Evidence Watergate reader (updated!)
The 50th anniversary of Richard Nixon's resigning the presidency is coming up this week, so I've brought a Watergate reader out of the archives for your...
Scammy psychics, body snatchers, and Sean "Diddy" Combs
Scott Peterson following his arrest on April 18, 2003. Credit: Modesto Police Department Best Evidence readers know that the end of the month isn’t just your...
The Docket 08.01.24: Olympic trials
[listen to the episode AND get the full show notes right here] No, not that kind...the criminal-justice kind, as we dig into the top true-crime stories...
July 2024 Bonus Review: 3 Podcasts, or "Errol, Jewell, and In The Dark"
Talking Pictures: Errol Morris (March 5, 2024) I'd had the Morris ep of the Talking Pictures pod – a joint project from Turner Classic Movies and HBO Max –...
Should you bet on Charlie Hustle and the Matter of Pete Rose?
The crimeThe literal, actionable crime for which Pete Rose did half a year in a federal penitentiary is tax evasion, although related allegations involved...
Wrapping up our summer Edgars flashback with a look back at Final Justice
[a paid sub gets you Susan’s review in your inbox in its entirety! or click here] Over the course of the summer, we’ve done a look back at the 1994 Edgar...
Unraveling the Worst Roommate Ever true crime universe
Still from Worst Roommate Ever Season 2. Courtesy: Netflix Paid supporters get every Best Evidence article directly in their inboxes, and all free readers...
The Docket 07.25.24: Why, Netflix?
[listen to today’s episode here, or wherever you get podcasts!] Two upcoming Netflix properties -- Dirty Pop's three-parter on Lou Pearlman, and the fourth...
Mark Bowden’s The Last Stone: that way madness, lies
The crimeOn March 25, 1975, sisters Sheila and Kate Lyon, ages 12 and 10, vanished from a mall in suburban Maryland. [SDB’s full review here. Want these in...
Looking back at Until The Twelfth Of Never
[Susan Howard’s complete review is here; paid subscribers can read the whole thing in their inboxes!] Over the course of the summer, we’ll be doing a look...
The Midsummer Crime Cluster: an investigation
[the rest of SDB’s prob-stat adventure is right here, or grab a paid sub and get all content in your inbox, in its entirety] For years, I'd thought in...
The Docket 07.18.24: Wellness-scam content recs
[listen to today’s Docket here!] EB and SDB each have subgenres of interest within true crime; wellness-scam content is Eve's waterfront, and she's covering...
The Shannen Doherty BET-CRP
It isn't the first thing I thought of when my esteemed colleague Alan Sepinwall texted me the news of Shannen Doherty's passing over the weekend...or even...
Looking back at Gone in the Night
[for Susan’s full review of this 1994 Edgar nominee, click here; to get this and eeeeevery other article complete in your inbox, grab a paid sub!] Our next...
You've watched Mastermind: To Think Like A Killer. What's next?
[for more from this installment of Pairings from SDB, click here — or get a paid sub and read this in your inbox] Mastermind: To Think Like A Killer dropped...
The Docket 07.11.24: Road-trip listens
[subscribe to the Docket on your pod app, or listen here!] It's summer, and for a lot of us, that means hitting the highway (or the airport lounge) -- so...
5 true crime longreads to get you through this long week
Levi Axtell Credit: Grand Marais Police Department The week after a holiday break can be unrelenting in its combination of drudgery (a taste of freedom makes...
Carrie Carolyn Coco isn't a conventional crimoir
[SDB’s full review of Sarah Gerard’s new book is here, or you can get a paid subscription and see it, and all our other content, in full in your inbox!] The...
Looking back at The Misbegotten Son
Over the course of the summer, we’ll be doing a look back at the 1994 Edgar Award nominees for Best Fact Crime. …Our next 1994 Edgar nominee is The...
Looking back at Lindbergh: The Crime
The cover of 1994 Edgars nominee Lindbergh: The Crime Paid Best Evidence supporters get every review in their inbox, and free subscribers can click through...
June 2024 Bonus Review: An American Bombing
Key art from An American Bombing. (HBO) The crime The April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK. The explosion...
Dark Tide: Growing Up with Ted Bundy is a thoughtful act of catharsis
Bundy (right) with Dark Tide author Edna Cowell Martin's mother and brother (left). Courtesy photo. Supporters receive every Best Evidence article in their...
The Docket 06.24.24: Salute To America/n
full episode here! We're celebrating America's birthday a little early with a list of the best and most notable (to us) true-crime properties with...
30 For 30's Stanley Cup riot episode doesn't score
The crimeOn June 15, 2011, the Boston Bruins and the Vancouver Canucks faced off in a Stanley Cup Game 7 in Vancouver, BC. It didn't go well for the Canucks,...
How much true crime is on Donald Sutherland's c.v.?
[read SDB’s whole BET-CRP rundown right here — or grab a paid subscription and get the whole direct to your inbox!) When the great Donald Sutherland passed...
Should you check into Hotel Cocaine?
Danny Pino as Roman Compte in Hotel Cocaine, though I certainly understand why you're wondering "is that John Mulaney?" Credit: MGM+ Best Evidence supporters...
The Docket 06.20.24 There Is No Ethan
[listen here] At long last, we’re discussing Anna Akbari’s There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America’s Biggest Catfish, which is Akbari’s account of...
Does Cult Massacre: One Day In Jonestown have anything else to say?
The crimeIf you've clicked on this review to find out whether to bother with Cult Massacre: One Day In Jonestown, I can't imagine you don't know the basics...
Two filmic takes on the Lonely Hearts Killers
[read both reviews right here with a paid sub, or click through to see SDB’s coverage] There's something off-putting to me about the so-called Lonely Hearts...
Tell Them You Love Me tells a complicated and painful story with grace
Daisy, Derrick, and John Johnson in a stall from "Tell Them You Love Me." Credit: Netflix Best Evidence members get our full review of Tell Them You Love Me...
The Docket 06.13.24: Linklater Hollandsworth LLC
Glen Powell in Hit Man and Jack Black in Bernie. Richard Linklater adapted another Skip Hollandsworth joint almost 15 years ago, which became Bernie; now he...
6 true-crime longreads: Matthew Perry, Mindhunter, muddled crime stats
It's wedding and commencement season, and you know what that means! …Well, yes, bright futures, love is in the air, all that good stuff, but it also means a...
Where Texas Monthly's Hit Man ends, Richard Linklater's Hit Man begins
The crimeMurder for hire. Almost. [read the whole email right now with a paid sub…or click through for SDB’s full review] The storyIt feels like we started...
How To Rob A Bank IS an instruction manual – but not for heists
The crimeA string of almost 20 Seattle bank robberies, committed by a charismatic UNSUB whom law enforcement nicknamed "Hollywood." [don’t forget, a paid sub...
Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult might be the busiest true crime title ever
Melanie Wilking, from true crime series "Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult" Credit: Netflix Remember, paid subscribers get every Best Evidence...
Happily Never After: Dan & Nancy and audio "comfort food"
The crimeOn the morning of June 2, 2018, students arrived at the Oregon Culinary Institute to find their instructor, Chef Dan Brophy, dead of two gunshot...
I was wrong about The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson
[read the full review here — or up your subscription and get full-lengthers in your inbox, no extra clicks] The crimeThe June 12, 1994 murder of Nicole Brown...