Party Theft · Jazz-Age Phrogging · TV Babylon
And a great and terrible British documentary
Six (alleged) rogues and Kevin Bacon
It's an all TV/movie star edition!
Facebook Sleuths · Jersey Psychics
Plus, "The Watcher"? We hardly even know 'er
From the archives: "King Con"
Hey, friends — unexpected scheduling conflict at BE HQ today, so I’ve grabbed a book review of Paul Willetts’s King Con from a few years ago. More good stuff...
It's time to talk about 'Unsolved Mysteries'
For many of us here, NBC’s launched-in-1987 series Unsolved Mysteries was our gateway to true crime, an initially limited show that kicked off with hosts...
The Vow Part 2: Collateral; damage
Plus Forbes and NPR weigh in; and Robert Urich, Bet-Crapped
Kim Kardashian · Adnan Syed · Chess
Are you watching 'The Watcher'?
Michael Moore · Quiz Show · Cemetery Stories
Plus serial-scopes and Spotify
Angela Lansbury · House Arrest · Club 219
Plus: The Serial saga comes to a quiet close for everyone but the victim
What are your favorite true crime urban legends?
That’s a nope, per Snopes. It makes sense that a topic as loaded as crime should be beset by misinformation, myth, and Mandela effects — after all, it’s...
Errol Morris · Danny Masterson · Airbnb
Plus: Your true-crime weekend
The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes: When does scarcity equal value?
Plus "murderabilia" and internet burnout
What TV stars should launch side hustles as true crime podcast hosts?
We had a little fun yesterday with the NYT’s wide-eyed “golly gee” reporting on Dateline’s podcasting success. But, let’s give credit where credit is due: it...
Catching up with true crime TV
The latest true crime headlines dealing with the small screen
A Dahmer fact-check, a minor "Unsolved Mysteries," and ants on a plane
Plus: how to revisit Serial
Brett Favre · The Watcher · Ezra Miller
It's the September budget sweep, fall break edition!
The September 2022 Bonus Review: I Don't Like Mondays
The 2006 TV doc tries to "tell you why," but can't get there
A peek over the paywall
Dopesick, Sherry Pie, JonBenét, and Fred and Rose West
Do you only take your crime "true"?
I don’t read much fiction, period — but when I do, it’s almost always crime/mystery fiction with a recognizable IRL element (and/or by an author known to me;...
Calendars, maps, and charts (oh my)
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