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Sex Cults · Brooklyn Mirage · Martin Sheen
August 30, 2023
August's budget sweep is a real barn-burner, so buckle in
Vacationland crime
August 29, 2023
Two of the Three Sisters lighthouses, Eastham MA. (SDB) A legendary Cape Cod cold case is finally closed.1 “The Lady of the Dunes,” whose mutilated body was...
Disappeared's return · Dunphy's memoir
$ · August 28, 2023
Plus Barry Sherman, Burger Chef, and amateur boxing gone wrong
215 lbs · Scott Johnson · The Blind Side
August 25, 2023
Plus: An on-the-lam car guy gets the Apple+ treatment
Invite your friends to read Best Evidence
August 24, 2023
We'll make THAT worth your time too
The Docket 08.24.23 Dog Days
August 24, 2023
A legendary bank robbery, and Al Pacino's true-crime bona fides
PCT · Bear Brook · Yiya Murano
$ · August 23, 2023
Plus: how you might become true-crime fodder
Reality TV edges into true crime (unintentionally)
August 22, 2023
We’ve talked before about reality TV stars who end up accused or convicted of true crimes, but we haven’t talked about scandals or crimes within those shows’...
Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case · My Daughter's Killer
$ · August 21, 2023
Netflix docs, camp-Fyre tales, and Basquiat fakes
Peter Berg · Rudy Giuliani · FedEx
August 18, 2023
What are you watching this weekend?
The Docket 08.17.23 Crowned Heads
August 17, 2023
Listen to us Google stuff!
Henrietta Lacks · Unique Harris · Deadpool
$ · August 16, 2023
Plus: Should you watch Depp v. Heard?
And just like that...there was Georgia.
August 15, 2023
You’d think (hope?) that after all my years covering crime, including on-the-ground reporting of San Francisco’s infamous Shrimp Boy case, I’d stop muttering...
The Sacklers · The Murdaughs · The Zodiac
$ · August 14, 2023
Kobek, Kitsch, and some literal wine-'n'-crime
Swedish Scarf · Telemarketers · Mushrooms
August 11, 2023
Do the SF 49ers have a crime curse?
The Docket 08.10.23 Manson: The "Major-est" Case
August 10, 2023
Why it still endures; what that should look like going forward
The Retrievals
$ · August 9, 2023
The crimeIn 2020, a nurse at the Yale University fertility treatment clinic was arrested when it was discovered she had been swapping the content of fentanyl...
What about cameras in the courtroom?
August 8, 2023
“The broadcast of the OJ Simpson murder trial was a formative moment for me,” I heard myself say the other day. Setting aside what a choad I sound like when...
Putting 4 Recent Netflix Docuseries In The Line-Up
$ · August 7, 2023
Plus detectives' tunnel vision, Gilgo Beach commentary, and more
Andrew Tate · Car Break-Ins · Poltergeist Girl
August 4, 2023
Hulu appears very eager for me to watch Demons & Saviors this weekend. What a terrible title, right? You expect a badly dyed Tom Hanks in the Vatican with a...
The Docket 08.03.23 Murphy x Menendez
August 3, 2023
Is the Menendez case a camp sinkhole for scripted projects; whither the Ryan Murphy acting corps; which Murphy series is the “bridge line”; when...
The Sixth Commandment · The Fugitive
$ · August 2, 2023
Plus Lizzo, Vallow, Unruh, and a (justly overlooked) lamster competition
When it's best to binge (and when it's not)
August 1, 2023
I’ve always been curious about the decision to release a property all at once, versus portioning it out week by week. Sometimes, it’s seemed like a...
Ashley Judd · Brooklyn Teens · YouTube Divers
July 31, 2023
Get out from under that heat dome with the July budget sweep
July 2023 Bonus Review: Kent State
$ · July 29, 2023
Sometimes, knowledge IS power
Sinéad O'Connor · OMitB · NYPD
July 28, 2023
Plus: A small town bad cop longread
The Docket 07.27.23 Ask Us Anything!
July 27, 2023
You had questions; we (sometimes) had answers!
Evidence Of Things Seen · Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil
July 26, 2023
Plus Erin Lee Carr, Etan Patz, and Emmett Till
Red flags: true-crime "experts" you don't trust
July 25, 2023
Dr. Henry Lee peers at bloodstains on an envelope during the OJ Simpson trial. (Getty via Daily Beast) I can’t say I was surprised to read the headline DPB...
Myth of the Zodiac Killer · The Heiress and the Heist
$ · July 24, 2023
Plus NJ's Ponzi king and NYPD's serial litterer
Last Call · Beanie Babies · James Lewis
July 21, 2023
Plus: The FBI's relationship with true crime
The Docket 07.20.23 The Emmys
July 20, 2023
Predictions, "the Plemons thing," and justice for Showtime
Five quickies
July 19, 2023
Burnout+vacation+sleep deprivation=Eve begs your indulgence
Hall Of Shame: sports-adjacent true crime
$ · July 18, 2023
Faking sigs, throwing bricks, dodging taxes, robbing banks
Ask us anything!
July 17, 2023
Welcome to the Best Evidence version of a Reddit AMA — but with us! We’ll answer all sorts of questions in our next episode of the Docket*, so get those...
Arrest made in one of our generation's most confounding unsolved cases
July 14, 2023
Plus: Kevin Spacey and the House of Savoy
The Docket 07.13.23 First-degree fabulism
July 13, 2023
What making up stories costs all of us
Elizabeth Holmes · Charles Orlando · Matthew Broderick
$ · July 12, 2023
Plus: The real end of the Silk Road
Evidence Of Things Seen: Taking true crime personally
$ · July 11, 2023
Plus the best podcasts, the worst titles, and Remnick vs. RFK Jr.
Out of time: on releasing incarcerated seniors
July 10, 2023
“Manson follower” Leslie Van Houten is getting closer to fresh air. Per an East Bay Times/AP item from late last week, CA governor Gavin Newsom has announced...
Last Call · Ashley Madison · David Adjaye
July 7, 2023
It's Friday, so what are we watching this weekend?
The Docket 07.06.23 Live PD lawsuits and yet more Zodiac
July 6, 2023
Or, "DON'T Watch What Happens"
Gone Girl · MLM dirt · Mary & Bill
$ · July 5, 2023
Plus: Killers of the Flower Moon gets its first trailer
Iconically American crime
July 3, 2023
Leonard Peltier’s truck, evidence in the FBI’s top-ranked RESMURS case Tomorrow is the Fourth of July holiday in the U.S., a celebration of Americana...
Penis Enlargement · The Situation · Amazon
June 30, 2023
Welcome to the June budget sweep
June 2023 Bonus Review: In Contempt
$ · June 30, 2023
Christopher Darden on the trial of the century, and other broken things
The Docket 06.29.23 Ru Crime and Black Mirror
June 29, 2023
True-crime satire and lamming it in a cemetery
The Art Thief · Epstein · Milli Vanilli
$ · June 28, 2023
Plus: A Live PD lawsuit moves forward
Matters of life and death
June 27, 2023
As widely reported last night, prosecutors in the University of Idaho slayings case have announced that they’ll be seeking the death penalty against Bryan...
Unsolved Murders No. 1, or: The Un-Googleable Death Of A Midcentury Crime Mag
$ · June 26, 2023
Plus Kesha, Toobin, and Stephenville
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