Seven Great True Crime Longreads
Mulling Amanda Knox, adoption, and the Wu-Tang Clan
Leon Black · Attica · Soduku
'Candy' adds some coolish cast members
Guilty Party · Shrink Next Door · The Arconia
Cheaters never win, but they do get podcasts
It's the anniversary of Ann Rule's birth
The godmother of true-crime books would have turned 90 years old today. Was Ann Rule’s prose the most beautifully Capotean thing you ever read? No. Did she...
What it's like to be a talking head on a true-crime show
Eve takes the true-crime anthology show chair
"Only Murders In The Building": A grand finale
Plus Carole Baskin, Reality Winner, DOCNYC and more
Mark Lamb · Carmen Mola · John Douglas
Plus: True-crime whitewashing
"Four Hours At The Capitol": Crowd sourcing
Plus two magazine longreads, and the Cosby case continues
"Dopesick" tries harder than it needs to
Plus bridge boycotts, the Babe, and more
Fifteen true crime stories we've been meaning to mention
Answering the question "what should I read this weekend?"
What once-ubiquitous case needs a current re-examination?
A History Channel mailer informed me that the Achille Lauro hijacking came to an end 36 years ago last Sunday. Two TV-movie projects got made in 1989-90...
Fat Suit · Dog License · Caliphate
And another true-crime podcast triumph
Buried: "Memory is an issue in every trial"
Plus "Bad Sport" and bad titling practices
What other true crime adaptations might benefit from a recast?
The news that Jessica Biel would replace Elisabeth Moss as the titular character in Candy (that’s the Candy Montgomery series that doesn’t star Elizabeth...
Zodiac · Suspect
Plus "Candy" recasting and looted antiquities
Bad Art Friend · Fat Leonard · Boston Strangler
And: Google strikes a deal with cops over googled victims
Rigged Justice · Anna Sorokin · LaShae Kimbrough
Plus: Billy Jensen takes a questionable stand
Discovery-verse Docs · The First Forensic Files
Plus Criterion Channel, true-crime ethics, and the evolution of the art heist
September Bonus Reviews: Buzzfeed Unsolved True Crime and Dominick Dunne: After The Party
The crimeIn the True Crime half of BuzzFeed’s Unsolved series (the other half is Supernatural), Ryan Bergara and his co-host look at “unsolved crimes,...
What MLM Needs The LuLaRich Treatment Next?
The same day we sent Elizabeth Held’s review of LuLaRich out to paid subscribers, I was driving on Indiana’s I-65 freeway when a drifted into my lane, nearly...