Anna Sorokin · Jeffrey Epstein · Australia
Plus: The 1-5 Strangler's symmetric autopsy report
What's the prescription for case fatigue?
We all have cases we’re weary of, for whatever reason. Maybe it’s that a round-number case anniversary has recently come and gone (the Tate-LaBianca...
Manson-Book Review · Female Serial Killers · For Heaven's Sake
Plus Netflix docs, NBA refs, and Martha in cuffs
Love (Scams) In The Age Of COVID · Murder Among The Mormons
Plus new contrib Elizabeth Held on meta true-crime narratives
Alec Baldwin · Black Wall Street · I-5 Strangler
Plus: a follow-up roundup of news of the day
SNL · Mike Tyson · Made You Look
Plus: The Theranos trial hits a snag
February Bonus Book Review: The Hot One
Carolyn Murnick's crimoir keeps its distance.
Andre Leon Talley · The Rope · College Admissions
Plus: Another Blumhouse docuseries
When will you be ready for pandemic-related true crime?
Hello, friends! We usually save our discussion thread for Fridays, but I had a wild schedule this week! So you’re getting the thread today, and a full issue...
Martha Mitchell · Murder Among The Mormons
Plus new books, and how the true-crime boom dilutes the prestige pool
Dropout (Dropout) · Silk Road · Nazis
Also: True crime loses a cult expert
Fred Hampton · John Wayne Gacy · Stolen
Plus a heist-iversary and a Gay/Lewinsky convo
Should We Be Mad At Ryan Murphy?
“Fuck Ryan Murphy for making Richard Ramirez into a horror chic character,” a friend texted me last weekend. He was bingeing American Horror Story and had...
FKA twigs · Britney Spears · Stan Lee
Also: A doc about transitional housing you can watch on your lunch break
Official Unsolved Mysteries Pod · 120 Executions · Allen v. Farrow
Plus a plethora of hip-hop stories
Mad Max · Cecil Hotel · Robert Maxwell
Plus: A look back at a true-crime classic
Anna Sorokin · IDCon · Top "Dateline"s
Plus Woody Allen, Tekashi69, Soledad O'Brien, and a book review
If it please the court, Exhibit B.
Yeah, so I launched a true-crime bookshop. “You WHAT?!” …I know! I still can’t decide if this is the best or the dumbest thing I ever did, so let’s go with...
Michael Cohen · Keith Morrison · LuLaRoe
Plus: Remember 90s band Sublime? No, not 311. No, not Sugar Ray.
Assassins · Crime Scene · The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Plus murder houses and hip-hop lawsuits