May 2023 Bonus Review: Who Killed Robert Wone?
A story about competing (and missing) stories
Randall and Sex Scandals · Judy Malinowski · Burden of Proof
Plus: a 1920s crime, revived
The Docket 05.25.23: Incarceration franchises and Nancy Grace
"60 Days In," Pacey Witter, and hard-hair blondes
Debunking the "CSI Effect"
Plus: Rolf Harris and HH Holmes
Why does the Idaho Murders/Bryan Kohberger case continue to fascinate?
Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of fatally stabbing University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Madison Mogen, was in...
Sacco and Vanzetti · Warhol · Exoneration 101
Summer reading's accidental treasures
Hillsong · Freeway Phantom · Horses
Plus: A first look at "Killers of the Flower Moon"
The Docket 05.18.23
Upcoming Oxygen programming and true-crime-satire fatigue
Death of a Bookseller · Airbnb · Ugly Houses
Plus: the real Wendy Carr
You can buy a house on Facebook Marketplace?
As always, you folks were right. In Friday’s “what true crime we’re consuming this weekend” section, I said I’d be dipping into Netflix’s newly-released...
"Cook to cook": Bourdain, Mary Mallon, and true crime
Plus a new scam pod, and Manson The Lesser's defamation suit hits a snag
Happy Best Evidence Anniversary!
Plus: your true crime weekend plans and some big Best Evidence (audio) news
"The evidence is not overwhelming or definitive"
RFK Jr., "Secrets of the Dead," and a long-cold Nebraska case is closed Down Under
Let's talk about George Santos and E. Jean Carroll
It’s not the worst news day for the good guys. A jury in New York awarded writer and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll $5 million Tuesday in her civil suit...
10 wild lines from that Elizabeth Holmes interview
Voice changes and trips to the zoo
Jordan Neely · Bison Dele · Pierce Brosnan
And art theft, and campaign graft
Brad Bohannon · Gypsy Rose Blanchard · Menudo
Plus: a true crime survey follow-up
White House Plumbers · L&O BDSM
Plus cross-examining TV and gallery grift
Criminals with AARP eligibility
74-year-old cat burglar Mitsuaki Tanigawa “Although the majority of criminal offences are committed by young persons, about 1% of crimes have been reported...
The Menendezes · Roman Polanski · Another Black Mass
Plus: Where do you stand on heists?
Marilyn Monroe · Tony Tetro · Leopold and Loeb
Plus ethics in true crime, and disappeared in Florida
April 2023 Bonus: The Law & Order IRL Case Codex
In which yet another SDB project idea turns into A Whole Thing
Las Vegas · Tucker Carlson · E. Jean Carroll
It's already time for the April budget sweep
Reeva · Dersh · Europol
Plus another bite at the "Candy" apple
American Greed · Salt Bae · Michael Jackson
Plus: The guy who inspired Syriana gets into arms trading
Criminally overlooked 1970s-era cases
“We get that prestige scripted true crime about the seventies is tempting because the production designer can go off on the clothing and music,” Sarah...
David Grann · Roy Cohn · Jesse James · Edgars Predictions
Plus the Doomsday Mom and some deadly dessert
The Disapproval Matrix? · Bamboozle · Mysterious Motel Manslaughter
Plus Part 2 of my author interview with Alex Mar
11 cannabis-themed crime reads to celebrate 4/20
From murders involving Mary Jane to chronic scams, here's a weed reader to celebrate the holiday
Hopelessly devoted to defamation
You might not remember Denial, the 2016 dramatic adaptation of Deborah Lipstadt's excellent book, History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier....
David Choe · Peoples Temple · Suing Netflix
The Streisand effect sure is effective.
Juvenile justice in Gary · Ness in Cleveland · Curséd real estate in Hopewell
Slow your scroll -- there's a giveaway!
Cocaine Bear · Lie Detectors · Sig Sauers
Plus: Will you be having a Waco weekend?
Pretend profilers · Fast forgeries · Art-heist apps
And: the Subway series. ...Don't get up; I'll fire myself
True-crime lessons learned
We talk a lot about the divisions in today’s world, but what I’m thinking about today is another division. I’m thinking about the one between folks like us —...
Chat GPT · Sketching Trump · Theranos
The Real Housewives of Bryan???
Nixon · Knight
Plus "American Caliph" and New York real-estate beef
Clarence Thomas · Mark Geragos · Big Mack
Plus: a new San Quentin doc hits the festival circuit
"It's brutal": Leo Frank and true crime at the theater
A conversation with Adam Grosswirth about "Parade"
"No relation": sharing names with the notorious
When I got married, I didn’t change my name. DPB didn’t care, I didn’t feel like it, and life has enough paperwork you don’t have a choice about. But we did...
Spiders · Long Movies · Trump
Your opinion sought on televised trials
Trailed · Reverend Mother · Murder & Basketball
Leave the Pope out of it, will ya?
March 2023 Bonus Review: Wife, Mother, Murderer
It's not bad, but it's probably not worth your time, either
Scott Peterson · The Colorado Cannibal · Scenes From A Textbook Scam
Plus a century-old con and another murderous dentist
Heidi Fleiss · Hillsong · ChatGPT
Welcome to the March budget sweep. It's a doozy!
Hollywood is Hollywood
A roundup of recent tinseltown-related true crime
"Breakout hits": favorite lam/escape properties
Muse Watson as Charles “DB Cooper” Westmoreland on Prison Break. I should probably get locked up for that pun, but anyway: what are your favorite/recommended...
"Waco" on Netflix · Eilish on "Swarm" · Vengeance on OKCupid
Plus Susan on the Edgars, and a Texas scamfluencer on trial
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More true-crime connects and recs
Girl Scouts · Crackpots · Crime Seen
Plus BET-CRP planning and your weekend watches