In the midst of true crime’s boom, when people have hundreds of articles, prestigious TV shows, and shoddily…

Very few beloved television shows that receive reboots successfully rejuvenate the format. Instead of giving…

In a confessional on Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project, while discussing David Sheppard’s unfair sentencing,…

In the black-and-white photograph of Georgann Hawkins, she beams at the camera, a big, posed smile, and a flower…

First, there was Netflix’s boring, sexist docuseries on Ted Bundy, a banal serial killer who was frequently deemed a…

In Rachel Monroe’s book Savage Appetites, she describes something called a “crime funk.” It is when you might find…

The central question at the heart of the Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter case is essentially: Can a text message…

Murder TV just got baselessly outraged again! It’s been three long years since Nancy Grace regularly blessed our…

For those who consider Vincent Bugliosi’s Helter Skelter—his 1974 book about Charles Manson, the murders he ordered,…

The second Yeardley Smith starts talking, I am transported back to my childhood home, watching The Simpsons on the…

Like millions of other people, I devoured Serial’s imperfect first season, listening until the end for a definitive…

If you are curious for more details on the crime story of the century—at least for Old Hollywood/museum enthusiasts,…

Antarctica sounds like an awful place insofar as the people who have jobs there care far too furiously about what…

Two months after the posthumous publication of Michelle McNamara’s true crime bestseller I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,…

After the first episode of Netflix’s new true crime satire, American Vandal, I was certain I knew who did it. The…

“Ball hairs. The ball hairs. They’re different,” a teenage boy intones over footage of a Homeland-style evidence…

Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn’s Amanda Knox, premiering September 30 in theaters and on Netflix, is different from…

Hot on the heels of Making of a Murderer, Netflix is releasing another true crime documentary, this one focusing on…

Following the recent successes of The People vs. O.J. Simpson and Making a Murderer, the National Enquirer—a.k.a the…

We are a society that loves culturally significant anniversaries divisible by 10, so the 20th anniversary of the OJ…