“Ball hairs. The ball hairs. They’re different,” a teenage boy intones over footage of a Homeland-style evidence board, complete with red string and index cards in the trailer for Neflix’s forthcoming American Vandal, which looks like a pitch-perfect satire of true crime docuseries.
Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn’s Amanda Knox, premiering September 30 in theaters and on Netflix, is different from other documentaries in the increasingly popular true crime genre because its subject’s story is already widely known. So what’s the point of telling it again?
Hot on the heels of Making of a Murderer, Netflix is releasing another true crime documentary, this one focusing on the trial of Amanda Knox, the American student accused of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher while studying abroad in Perugia, Italy in 2007.
Following the recent successes of The People vs. O.J. Simpson and Making a Murderer, the National Enquirer—a.k.a the O.G. daddy of true crime reporting—has announced its own true crime series National Enquirer Investigates, which will focus on events such as the death of Whitney Houston, the O.J. Simpson trial…
We are a society that loves culturally significant anniversaries divisible by 10, so the 20th anniversary of the OJ Simpson trial has only just begun providing material for the airwaves. Since January, the event has been covered in FX’s spectacular limited series and a 12-hour special on Esquire, but this summer ESPN…
Another reason why messing with suburban moms is always a bad idea: Kelli Peters, a former PTA president and Orange County resident, won $5.7 million in a civil suit in damages over an incident in which a pair of two other parents, whose son attended her child’s school, planted weed and narcotics in her car.
In 1994, Tyra Patterson—then 19—was involved in the assault and robbery of a of a group of young women that left one of them—15-year-old Michelle Lai—dead from a gunshot wound to the head. It is known beyond doubt that Patterson did not pull the trigger, but her participation prior to Lai’s death remains unclear.
Today in true Mexican crime stories—a country where a drug czar named El Chapo tunneled his way out of maximum security prison—meet La China. The 31-year-old female assassin was the top worker for the Sinaloa cartel until her boyfriend gave her up to the authorities.
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Jodie Gaines was 18 years old and on her way to a fish fry when she saw the blue lights of a cop car flash in her rearview. As detailed in an episode of House of Horrors: Kidnapped—one of a grip of ominously titled programs on the channel Investigation Discovery, the 24-7, true crime network—she was an outgoing high…
Most people who’ve been convicted of murder usually settle into prison for the long haul. But in some cases, a killer, usually one who committed his or her crime as a youth, gets released and starts over. Here are seven famous killers who got caught, and never killed again. (So far, at least.)
Couples who kill together — Fred and Rosemary West, Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo, David and Catherine Birnie — get plenty of ink. But what about siblings and larger family groups whose shared viciousness leads them into committing horrifying crimes? Read on for six especially nasty examples.
In 1872, 12-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was briefly sent to reform school after brutally attacking several children. After his release, “the Boy Fiend” progressed to murder. A new book takes a look at this unusual case, one of the first to bring the insanity defense — and all its complications — into the public eye.
A kidnapping trial begins Monday for Gladys Remigio in Santa Ana, California. The charges stem from an elaborate scheme allegedly devised by the then 17-year-old Remigio to steal her roommate's newborn baby with the help of two gang members.
If anyone's seeking true-life inspiration for a Rose for Emily script with a mother-daughter twist, it's your lucky morning: The NYPD says they discovered a 28-year-old Brooklyn woman living with the decomposed body of her own mother—for as long as three years.
And now for something that affirms the human spirit: the Sunday edition of the New York Times has a story on the cop who picked up the lone survivor of the city's notorious Palm Sunday Massacre 30 years ago - one year old Christina Rivera - and has parented her ever since.
The LA Times has a great feature called "The Homicide Report," which chronicles the lives of LA County's murder victims. The latest entry is fascinating in how it humanizes one of the murderers, Shannon Burns, who shot her husband Chip to death almost four years ago.
In a case straight out of a Lifetime movie, Alaskan woman Rachelle Waterman has been sentenced to three years in prison after she was found guilty of arranging to have two ex-boyfriends kill her mother.
The serial killer terrorizing Long Island has led to an unlikely support network.
A Glasgow woman received two years probation for trying to strangle her boyfriend with a loofah rope in a fight over the remote. In case you're wondering, this is not a super-effective means of strangulation — says the BBC, "There was some degree of compression, but Mr McPherson managed to free himself and was left…
