Best of 2023: True Crime Podcasts
What was your favorite true crime podcast in 2023?
Best of 2023: True Crime Books
What was your favorite true crime book in 2023?
Substackers Against Nazis
A collective letter to Substack leadership
Body Cameras · Griffith Park · Monsters
While everyone else watches Hallmark fare, we're sticking with crime this weekend
The Docket 12.14.23 What we've learned
Old properties, new perspectives
Andre Braugher · LA Coroner · Andy Warhol
Plus a "May December" truth-is-stranger moment.
Is "May December" true crime?
“I don't know if May December qualifies as true crime, but I thought that was pretty spectacular.” That’s a quote from one of the respondents to our end-of-...
Bad Surgeon · Blue Caprice · The Big Bankroll
Plus burrito justice and CompStat-aganda
Brittney Griner · NCIS · S-Town
Plus: Is Boston the "most racist city in America"?
The Docket 12.07.23 The ethics of true-crime commerce
Sustainability, taste, and capitalism brawling yet again
Cameo · Facebook · Veep
Plus: Should you go Among the Bros?
True-crime to-dos
Like the cast a lot; don’t think I’ve got any more Fs to give about Eliot Ness. As noted yesterday, I’ve undertaken a “31 True-Crime Things In 31 Days”...
Looking For Mr. Goodbar · The Maltese Falcon
Plus Huffman's good deeds, Gotti gets italicized, and more
Jonathan Majors · Griselda · Crime Junkie
What are you watching this weekend?
November 2023 Bonus Review: Closing Time
The Goodbar case, the nonfiction novel, and the ambitious failure
The Docket 11.30.23 The Agony Of Defeat
Sports, crime, and Murphy/Falchuk
NameDrop Panic · Dr. Death · Sean Combs
It's the penultimate budget sweep of 2023!
Answer the question, Claire*
Longtime Best Evidence readers know the drill. Toward the end of every year, we send a list of questions to true crime experts and notables, as well as Best...
Lori Vallow · Double Indemnity · DB Cooper
Plus last-minute lawsuits and best books
George Santos · JFK · Celebrity Stylist
Plus: new true crime for the long weekend
One for the road
Please relax, the Muppets didn’t commit any crimes1. But given our proximity to one of the biggest travel days of the year — and that The Muppet Movie is one...
The Girls Who Fought Crime · Capote's Typewriter
Plus Kaitlin Armstrong and the Murdaughs
Puffy · Fentanyl · TMZ
Plus: Interpol's efforts to identify dead women
The Docket 11.16.23 The Greatest Trick The Devil Ever Pulled
...was convincing us he wasn't DB Cooper (or on the grassy knoll)
Un-Redacted Redacted · True Crime Questions Answered
Plus: Another Noirvember review
Doppelgangland
Today’s thread is inspired by Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger, and, yes, I did just reopen it on my Kindle the confirm the author name. The book, which is...
Anatomy of a Murder · Boss Tweed
Plus a trifecta of Gotham government graft
Conspiracy Theories · Kit Kats · Haunted Houses
Plus: Your weekend true-crime watches (and a question)
The Docket 11.09.23 Future Book Club
Upcoming releases and bestseller predictions
Wonderland · WeWork · Madeleine
Noirvember continues!
Actors we want on the case
We’ve polled our readers before, many times, on how you’d “cast” a particular case or true-crime property. Today’s question is a bit different, though;...
John Gotti · Mr. Goodbar · Cameron Frye
Plus Pasolini and principals
Dr. Roxy · The Jinx · FTX
Plus, your weekend in true crime
The Docket 11.02.23 Who We'd Play, Whom We'd Punt
Listener questions on casting and canonization
Noirvember Kickoff · Heaven's Gate · Maverick Miles
Plus: Sarah Weinman on why she does what she does
October 2023 Bonus Review: Winter of Frozen Dreams
The actors and the pathetic fallacy work hard; it's not enough.
Urban legends, misinformation, and true crime
Every morning, I croak “Alexa, what’s in the news” as I dole out my dog’s breakfast. It’s not that I need this device to keep me appraised of the news...
Jack the Ripper · Suge Knight · JFK
How is it already time for the October budget sweep?
Pain Hustlers · Kanye West · Bob Lee
Plus: How Maine's mass shooting manhunt became a disinfo vortex
The Docket 10.26.23 The Curse Of Yuba City
Juan Corona and BAU branding
Zadie Smith · Alfred Hitchcock
Bosch, Bowen, Byrnes, and the prison-to-TV pipeline
Major cases, major bombs: the worst true-crime movies
Remember that “worst true-crime movies” list I mentioned on The Docket last week? I don’t think I realized how many name directors show up on it — De Palma,...
Elma Sands · Gilgo Beach
Plus the Swedish Anna Delvey, and Emily St. James on "Zodiac"
Satan · The Winklevosses · The Ingebrigtsenes
Does everybody *really* love diamonds?
The Docket 10.19.23 Fairstein vs. Everybody
Defamation, plausible deniability, and the perils of author branding
McKamey Manor · Michael Lewis · Martin Shkreli
Plus: Inside the troubles at Last Podcast on the Left
Social media and true crime
No, this isn’t a discussion thread about the various allegations of labor violations at X, the former Twitter. But it’s not completely X-free. One thing...
Medieval Murders · Mindhunter
Plus "JFK," VC, and the mag-to-movie pipeline
Elijah McClain · Kaley Cuoco · Taylor Hazlewood
Plus: What we're watching this weekend
The Docket 10.12.23 Horror Stories
Do true crime and horror serve similar needs?