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On Wednesday afternoon, in wake of the news that no police officers would be held responsible for the murder of…
Jul 30
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In the midst of true crime’s boom, when people have hundreds of articles, prestigious TV shows, and shoddily…
Jul 9
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Very few beloved television shows that receive reboots successfully rejuvenate the format. Instead of giving…
Apr 6
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In a confessional on Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project, while discussing David Sheppard’s unfair sentencing,…
Feb 6
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In the black-and-white photograph of Georgann Hawkins, she beams at the camera, a big, posed smile, and a flower…
Oct 17
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First, there was Netflix’s boring, sexist docuseries on Ted Bundy, a banal serial killer who was frequently deemed a…
Aug 8 2019
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In Rachel Monroe’s book Savage Appetites, she describes something called a “crime funk.” It is when you might find…
Jul 11 2019
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The central question at the heart of the Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter case is essentially: Can a text message…
Jul 7 2019
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Murder TV just got baselessly outraged again! It’s been three long years since Nancy Grace regularly blessed our…
Jun 20 2019
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For those who consider Vincent Bugliosi’s Helter Skelter—his 1974 book about Charles Manson, the murders he ordered,…
May 9 2019
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The second Yeardley Smith starts talking, I am transported back to my childhood home, watching The Simpsons on the…
Mar 8 2019
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Like millions of other people, I devoured Serial’s imperfect first season, listening until the end for a definitive…
Dec 4 2018
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If you are curious for more details on the crime story of the century—at least for Old Hollywood/museum enthusiasts,…
Oct 31 2018
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Antarctica sounds like an awful place insofar as the people who have jobs there care far too furiously about what…
Apr 25 2018
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Two months after the posthumous publication of Michelle McNamara’s true crime bestseller I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,…
Sep 19 2017
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After the first episode of Netflix’s new true crime satire, American Vandal, I was certain I knew who did it. The…
Aug 3 2017
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“Ball hairs. The ball hairs. They’re different,” a teenage boy intones over footage of a Homeland-style evidence…
Sep 30 2016
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Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn’s Amanda Knox, premiering September 30 in theaters and on Netflix, is different from…
Sep 9 2016
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Hot on the heels of Making of a Murderer, Netflix is releasing another true crime documentary, this one focusing on…
Apr 26 2016
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Following the recent successes of The People vs. O.J. Simpson and Making a Murderer, the National Enquirer—a.k.a the…