Andrew Tate · Car Break-Ins · Poltergeist Girl
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
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
Plus Lizzo, Vallow, Unruh, and a (justly overlooked) lamster competition
When it's best to binge (and when it's not)
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
Get out from under that heat dome with the July budget sweep
July 2023 Bonus Review: Kent State
Sometimes, knowledge IS power
Sinéad O'Connor · OMitB · NYPD
Plus: A small town bad cop longread
The Docket 07.27.23 Ask Us Anything!
You had questions; we (sometimes) had answers!
Evidence Of Things Seen · Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil
Plus Erin Lee Carr, Etan Patz, and Emmett Till
Red flags: true-crime "experts" you don't trust
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
Plus NJ's Ponzi king and NYPD's serial litterer
Last Call · Beanie Babies · James Lewis
Plus: The FBI's relationship with true crime
The Docket 07.20.23 The Emmys
Predictions, "the Plemons thing," and justice for Showtime
Five quickies
Burnout+vacation+sleep deprivation=Eve begs your indulgence
Hall Of Shame: sports-adjacent true crime
Faking sigs, throwing bricks, dodging taxes, robbing banks
Ask us anything!
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
Plus: Kevin Spacey and the House of Savoy
The Docket 07.13.23 First-degree fabulism
What making up stories costs all of us
Elizabeth Holmes · Charles Orlando · Matthew Broderick
Plus: The real end of the Silk Road
Evidence Of Things Seen: Taking true crime personally
Plus the best podcasts, the worst titles, and Remnick vs. RFK Jr.
Out of time: on releasing incarcerated seniors
“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
It's Friday, so what are we watching this weekend?
The Docket 07.06.23 Live PD lawsuits and yet more Zodiac
Or, "DON'T Watch What Happens"
Gone Girl · MLM dirt · Mary & Bill
Plus: Killers of the Flower Moon gets its first trailer
Iconically American crime
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
Welcome to the June budget sweep
June 2023 Bonus Review: In Contempt
Christopher Darden on the trial of the century, and other broken things
The Docket 06.29.23 Ru Crime and Black Mirror
True-crime satire and lamming it in a cemetery
The Art Thief · Epstein · Milli Vanilli
Plus: A Live PD lawsuit moves forward
Matters of life and death
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
Plus Kesha, Toobin, and Stephenville
Catching Killers · Julius Caesar · The Stroll
Plus: A sports memorabilia scam longread
The Docket 06.22.23 Toma and Gein
A '70s crimoir procedural, and a major case with nothing new to tell us
Death Investigators · Corrupt Cops · Pollsters
Plus: A true crime podcast about surviving true crimes
Getting leaky
Daniel Ellsberg, the political figure perhaps best known for his role in leaking the Pentagon Papers, died Friday at the age of 92. If you’re hazy on...
Putting the "duh" back in "double indemnity"
Plus monumental protests and missing caskets
Hypnosis · JP Morgan · Anna Delvey
Plus: More on the University of Idaho slayings
The Docket 06.15.23 The Crowded Room and OJ's legacy
A listener call gets real about DID; trauma becoming IP; when the actor gets the blame but isn’t the problem; short kings; how the OJ trial changed true...
Jared Fogle · Dowries · Bryan Singer
Plus: A BE bestie on Based on a True Story
The best Unabomber remembrances in the game
Please tap through this photo’s link to see photographer Richard Barnes’s fascinating explanation of this photo of Kaczynski’s cabin. If you’ve been on the...
Tawana Brawley · Timothy McVeigh · Tennessee Williams
And "Law & Order," and La Cosa Nostra
Influencers · Reptiles · Jimmy Pesto
Plus: The CW trades DC for TC
The Docket 06.08.23 Milligan and Parchman
The DID/true-crime Venn, plus upcoming projects
Tweakerworld · Zodiac · Scientology
Plus: Robert Hanssen, remembered
Summer-reading bingo, true-crime version
Anyone else got a summer-reading bingo card going? I’ve got high hopes for knocking one off this year; get your own card from our esteemed colleague...
Duggars · Darden · Death on the Lot
Plus: the changeling narrative in American culture and other longreads
Music · Max · Medicine
It's the May budget sweep!
The Docket 06.01.23
Mamet, Stone, Sebold, and the faulty narratives that endure
Natalia Grace · Elizabeth Holmes · Anna Delvey
Plus: Leslie Van Houten's parole chances
True cringe: vintage true crime's biggest dealbreakers
Not even this author’s worst offense in this regard IMO. Let’s face it: the punchbowl of “heritage” true crime contains many a turd. But I don’t mean the...