Kent State · Love After Lockup · The Frenchie Black Market
Plus a Leah Sottile longread and a Blake Bailey explainer
What Crimes Help You Connect With Your Mom?
No, I’m not Oxygening* you. But here’s a story: A couple weeks after my dad died in 2018, my brother (Brooklyn) and I (San Francisco) were still in Indiana...
For Real This Time: Blow · Bezos · Candy Montgomery
Plus: Holmes in court
Unsolved Mysteries · Opioids In Baseball · The Sons Of Sam
Plus the Peabody nominations and a classic longread
Rebecca Zahau · Scott Peterson · Bruce McArthur
Plus: A questionable way to celebrate Mother's Day
Broken Harts · The Staircase · France's Greatest Escape Artist
Plus, wild times in the Kansas legislature
Creating an opioid-crisis syllabus
In my inbox yesterday: 1) a note from the PR team for Alex Gibney’s upcoming doc for HBO, The Crime Of The Century, that included HBO’s official trailer; 2)...
April Bonus Review: Fatal Voyage
Dylan Howard's 2018 podcast accuses Robert Wagner of murdering Natalie Wood. I accuse the podcast of assaulting the English language.
Tiger King · The Webbys · The NBA
Plus: Between Black and Blue gets a release date
DOJ vs. Louisville PD · Dan Abrams · Best American Crime Writing 2002
Plus: Tulsa, Wade Robson, and the Brooklyn DA
Michael Lohan · Kristin Smart · Angie Harmon
Plus: another look at the Rebecca Zahau case
Cruel Doubt · Kesha · Cyntoia Brown
Plus a '70s kidnapping and related process-y listening
What True-Crime Property Helped You Understand Crime?
I have a confession to make. Though I had decades to get around to understanding the FBI’s Abscam sting operations, it wasn’t until I watched American Hustle...
Body Brokers · Unsolved Murders · Murder at the Cottage
Plus: Sammy the Bull's podcast has arrived
More "Meta" True-Crime Fiction · John Walsh · Teresa Giudice
Plus, dumpster tapes and a garbage grand jury
Fyre Fest · Making a Murderer · Gucci
So so so many links!
Edgars Predictions · Philly DA · James Ellroy
Plus Sasquatch, the former Mrs. Gacy, and clickbait curation
What's Your Local True-Crime Conspiracy Theory?
Remember when conspiracy believers were most associated with the X-Files’ Lone Gunmen and Mel Gibson’s character in the (now nearly unGoogleable) 1997 movie...
Jam Master Jay · Hot Springs · Svengali
Plus: Harassment within the FBI
Chippendales Revue In Review · John Wilkes Booth
Plus Weinstein's toothless defense and HS-football drama in Georgia