Caliphate · Napolitano · eBay
Plus: Live PD's role in an evidence-tampering case
Faking A Murderer · Gardner-Heist Theater · Crime Stats
Plus streaming-calendar notes, and your "Wilderness Of Error" review round-up
When Is It Okay To Contact A Serial Killer?
No, we’re not talking about any of you becoming a prison bride (though, I have told you how Richard Ramirez’s wife once helped me buy plates and napkins at...
Oscar Pistorius · The Olympics · Anonymous
Plus: One of BE's favorite beat reporters has a new true-crime book
Epstein's Chef · Sketchy Banks · Seriously, Oxygen?
Plus: A bunch of books to reserve or just order
Des · Carole Baskin · Clark Rockefeller
Plus an award-winning PSA and a vintage John Wilkes Booth doc
RBG · The Emmys · Alcatraz · Huisentruit
Plus Bill Kurtis, an Italian cycling avenger, "Coded Bias," and British imports.
Friday Open Thread: Morally Indefensible and A Wilderness Of Error
In which we once again confront due process, journalistic ethics, and sociopathy
Happy Face · American Murder · Big Brother
Plus: true crime schadenfreude
Skip Hollandsworth's New Pod · Dog The Bounty Hunter · Molotov Lawyers
Plus a hip-hop feud on Starz, and Mary J. Blige!
'Mental Disease' · BLM Pins · Dopesick
Plus: a handy list of non-goofy podcasts
Jolly Joseph · DIY True Crime · A Wilderness Of Error
Plus even yet STILL more "Tiger King," and Bong Joon Ho in theaters
True crime vs. history?
2020 is making a lot of horrifying tragedies seem smaller, including the attacks 19 years ago, but I wrote my annual 9/11 piece for TomatoNation.com anyway....
COVID-cide · Harold Shipman · Dan Abrams
Plus: Let's guess who's hiring
Janet Malcolm · Incarcerated Artists · Carole Baskin
Plus: a Gibney trailer and a drug-court fail
Theranos · Curtis Flowers · Decomp
Plus: A sad loss for the true crime community
Killing Michael Jackson · The Triangle Fire · Kitty Genovese
Plus the sustaining power of "Twilight: Los Angeles"
August (Actual) Bonus Review: Underground
A terrorist attack, a country's psyche, and text that speaks to 2020
What's your "desert island" magazine for longform true crime?
On a holiday weekend, thoughts turn inevitably to the stack of magazines teetering precariously on one’s coffee table. I didn’t even finish the back-issue...
True-Crime Link Lightning Round
We've got enough in there to keep you entertained for days