4 doc premieres, 3 tacky titles, 2 Skye hooks...
...and a "Black Bird" in an Apple+ tree
Pink Diamonds · Helltown · Crypto
Plus: Another first-thought podcast list
Fact-Finding Mission: Opioid-crisis audiobooks
Welcome to a new recurring feature on Best Evidence, a variation on my old Ask The Readers column on Tomato Nation. Need help finding a book or article, but...
She Said · Opioids · Dr. Death
Plus: Crime reporting suppression allegations against the LA Times
Eric Adams · Victoria's Secret · Jordan Catalano
Plus midsummer madness and the French Capote
The Good Life · Scrubs · Polanski
Plus: Behind the Dead End scenes
Sophie · Sirico · Krouse · Clemente
Plus a pre-"Killers of the Flower Moon" prep list
Let's talk about the 2022 Emmy nominations
When it comes to true crime recognition, "Dopesick" rules and "The Tinder Swindler" perplexes
OMiTB · In The Dark · Paul Holes
Should true crime be a personality-driven genre?
D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! · The Fatal Flaw
Plus Navarro agonistes
The James Caan Bet-Crap · Where The Crawdads Sing
Plus: a (fairly unsurprising) Theranos decision
Girl in the Picture · Jailbreak Lovers
Plus Joe Kenda and Jerry Harris
Rolling Stone's Top 25 True-Crime Podcasts List: Fight!
(People) Rolling Stone published “The 25 Best True-Crime Podcasts of All Time” a few days ago, and you might say I’ve got a murder of quibbles with it....
7 true crime longreads we gulped down last weekend
Nintendo theft, thin blue line flags, crypto disappearances, and more
Only Murders In The Building · Hoffa-tinis
Plus Penry, Peacock, and premiere news
June 2022 Bonus Review: The State of Texas vs. Melissa
[CW: harm to children] The crimeTwo-year-old Mariah Alvarez, the twelfth of Melissa Lucio’s fourteen children, was pronounced dead February 17, 2007 in...
How it is already time for the June budget sweep?
This month's is so big we had to subdivide
True-crime re-casting agency
There’s absolutely zero chance I’ll watch the second season of Bloodline Detectives. The premise isn’t unappealing — the show, per a recent PR email, goes...
The Janes · Tax Fraud · Raisins
Plus "Life After Lockup" and smugglers' frequencies
7 new true-crime podcasts to dip into this month
What's new in audio true crime? Here's what to listen for