• True Crime

    On the Perils of Adult Guardianship, An Industry Rampant with Fraud and Abuse

    Court-appointed guardians have few qualifications, little oversight, and enormous potential for exploitation.

    October 13, 2023  By Diane Dimond
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    A Murder Mystery in the Sunshine State

    How a dispute between Florida neighbors and a copy of Agatha Christie's 'The Pale Horse' landed a chemist on Death Row.

    October 11, 2023  By Jana Monroe
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    Sarah Weinman on Helen Garner and the Ongoing Conversations of True Crime

    In This House of Grief Garner "takes the act of bearing witness to new levels."

    October 10, 2023  By Sarah Weinman
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    “A Matter of Opinion”: Three Crimes and the Myths Surrounding Them

    "Each of these crimes has generated decades’ worth of mythology, some of it so far from the truth that the actual story isn’t recognizable in its own mythos."

    October 10, 2023  By Sam Rebelein
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    When a Dispute Over the Pronunciation of ‘Newfoundland’ Turned Deadly 

    How Do You Say Murder?

    October 2, 2023  By Dean Jobb
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    Sean Howe on High Times Magazine and Its Enigmatic, Larger-than-Life Editor

    Thomas King Forçade: counterculture hero, or CIA plant? Onetime High Times Contributor Gregory Daurer interviews author Sean Howe about the peculiar founder of an iconic publication.

    September 29, 2023  By Gregory Daurer
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    On Crime and Its Discontents

    "Every crime is a breach and a break and a sundering. It splits time. It shatters the ethical axis. But it reveals hidden things in a culture, or a nation."

    September 12, 2023  By Ben Okri
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    When True Crime Meets Police Brutality

    True-crime accounts of someone killed by police shouldn’t be any different from other murder investigations, but they are.

    September 12, 2023  By Justine Barron
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    The Cowboy as Detective: Finding Charlie Siringo’s West

    Charlie Siringo’s frontier life filled five autobiographies. His book about his two decades “playing outlaw” as a Pinkerton operative provoked the agency’s long campaign to silence him, and inspired American crime writers such as Dashiell Hammett. “When the final call comes,” Siringo judged toward the end, “I shall have to take my medicine, with Satan holding the spoon.” 

    September 5, 2023  By Nathan Ward
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    The New York City Theater Where True Crime Was All the Rage...in the Early 19th Century

    The notorious murder in Fall River played out for transfixed audiences in New York night after night.

    September 1, 2023  By Bruce Dorsey
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