The hidden true crime gems you missed in 2024
Today is my second-favorite (after our longread list) in Best Evidence’s annual Year in Review series. I love talking about properties that were overlooked...
The most anticipated true crime properties of 2025
We're looking to the future for today's installment in Best Evidence’s Year in Review. (If you're just catching up, here are our lists of the best vintage...
Our favorite throwback true crime properties in 2024
Supporters get every Best Evidence article in their inbox, while free subscribers can click through to read at Reality Blurred. We're starting this week of...
The best true crime dramas of 2024
As we reach the end of the first Year in Review (Best Evidence’s fourth annual, I should note), I’m already overwhelmed by all the remarkable best true crime...
The best true crime documentaries of 2024
Welcome to day four of Best Evidence’s fourth annual Year in Review, in which we celebrate the best true crime properties, complain about the worst, and spin...
The best true crime longreads of 2024
Welcome to day three of Best Evidence's fourth annual Year in Review, in which we celebrate the best true crime properties, complain about the worst, and...
The best true crime podcasts of 2024
Welcome to day two of Best Evidence's fourth annual Year in Review, in which we celebrate the best true crime properties, complain about the worst, and spin...
The best true crime books of 2024
Welcome to Best Evidence's fourth annual Year in Review, in which we celebrate the best true crime properties, complain about the worst, and spin hopeful...
The Elissas: Crimoir and compromise
The crimeBroadly, the Troubled Teen Industry – unregulated at best, fraudulent and abusive at worst. Specifically, the untimely death of author Samantha...
Making Manson: We're still listening to his name
The crimeI assume I don't have to go over the particulars of August 8-10, 1969 yet again. We do apparently have some reason to doubt the culpability of...
V13: Chronicle of a Trial struggles to make sense of the 2015 Paris massacre
On Friday November 13, 2015, a series of coordinated terror attacks throughout Paris killed 130 people, most of them young people attending a rock concert....
Jailbreak: Love on the Run is a prisoner of convention
The crimeIn late April of 2022, Alabama corrections officer Vicky White facilitated the escape of her incarcerated lover, Casey White, shocking her friends...
Is Double Indemnity true crime?
The crimeRuth Snyder married her older boss, Albert, in 1915, but a decade later, Ruth had tired of him – she liked to go out, he didn't; Albert didn't...
Fyre Festival II, the 13th Step harassment case, and more new true crime to know
Still from FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened. Credit: Netflix It’s been a while since Sarah and I cleaned out the doc on which we keep links to...
The best true crime of the year? The worst? We want to know.
Hello, Best Evidence readers, subscribers, and supporters! Somehow, we have staggered our way to the end of another year, which means it’s time for our...
The Al Pacino Best Evidence True-Crime Résumé Percentage
Working my way through a truly embarrassing backlog of magazines -- like, 2023 coverlines on a few of them -- I only last week came across the excerpt from...
November 2024 Bonus Review: The Taking of New York City
The crime/sNot specific crimes, but rather the reputation of New York City for unceasing mayhem in the 1970s. I think this is the book Rausch pitched…but is...
Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey and not-so-great expectations
The crimeThe murder of JonBenét Ramsey on Christmas night, 1996. The storyMy esteemed colleague Daniel Fienberg referred to Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét...
Can Say Nothing possibly improve on Patrick Radden Keefe's book?
The crimeThe abduction of 38-year-old mother of ten Jean McConville from her Belfast home in December of 1972 – as well as the myriad bombings, beatings,...
Read-Handed: Mommy-bloggers and murder ballads
just finished Not Just Evil: Murder, Hollywood, and California's First Insanity Plea, David Wilson // Stiff, overly grand prose; confusing zooms in and out...