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Ryan Murphy’s <em>Dahmer</em> Equates Queerness with Monstrosity

Ryan Murphy’s Dahmer Equates Queerness with Monstrosity

"What happens...when you marry the aesthetics of Murphy’s brand and his straight pandering to a true crime story about Jeffrey Dahmer?"

By John Copenhaver | January 6, 2023

The Most Glamorous Gang in London History

The Most Glamorous Gang in London History

On "Alice Diamond, Queen of Thieves, and her ‘girls’ from The Forty Thieves, who pilfered their way to notoriety in the first half of the twentieth century."

By Beezy Marsh | January 3, 2023

Crime and the City: Karachi

Crime and the City: Karachi

Pakistan's most populated city has a big tradition of books that explore crime and corruption.

By Paul French | January 3, 2023

A Murder on the Margins, and a Death That Would Haunt One Writer for Years to Come

A Murder on the Margins, and a Death That Would Haunt One Writer for Years to Come

Gwen Florio on a tragedy played out in Missoula's transient community and an imbalanced legal system.

By Gwen Florio | January 3, 2023

Maligned in the Media Due to the Actions of Men

Maligned in the Media Due to the Actions of Men

"[T]hey may not all be perfect victims, but I do believe that they were overly-demonized by the public and media alike"

By Flora Collins | January 3, 2023

My Favorite Con Artists

My Favorite Con Artists

Victoria Thompson on some of history's most inventive swindlers, and the stories they passed down.

By Victoria Thompson | December 21, 2022

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The Best International True Crime Podcasts for Winter 2022-23

By Paul French | December 19, 2022

The Best True Crime Books of the Year

By CrimeReads | December 17, 2022

On Choosing our #MeToo Heroes: Journalists or Survivors?

By Winnie M. Li | December 15, 2022

The Great Diamond Hoax: “A Deliberate and Oddly Planned Masterpiece of Roguery”

The Great Diamond Hoax: “A Deliberate and Oddly Planned Masterpiece of Roguery”

In 1870 San Francisco, two cousins walked into a mine broker's office and kicked off one of the most bizarre and lucrative swindles in American history.

By J. Kingston Pierce | December 15, 2022

8 True Crime Podcasts You Need to Listen to this Winter

8 True Crime Podcasts You Need to Listen to this Winter

Tales from the 90s softcore scene, the underground environmental movement, and Miami.

By Lizzy Steiner | December 15, 2022

How Hollywood Made J. Edgar Hoover and the F.B.I. Into the Mythical

How Hollywood Made J. Edgar Hoover and the F.B.I. Into the Mythical "G-Men"

Just like movie studios, the Bureau was starting a new era—and it was time for a public relations campaign.

By Beverly Gage | December 7, 2022

Into the Combat Zone: Boston's Most Notorious Neighborhood

Into the Combat Zone: Boston's Most Notorious Neighborhood

The Zone was Boston's Times Square, a magnet for the city's most desperate and depraved.

By Don Stradley | November 29, 2022

Surrounded by Beauty – Can an Object Ask you to Commit a Crime?

Surrounded by Beauty – Can an Object Ask you to Commit a Crime?

Usually criminologists study the criminal, but many of today’s scholars recommend an object-centric approach for understanding art crime. Cordy Abbott looks at a new model for why your antagonist committed art, antiquities or antiques theft.

By Cordy Abbott | November 28, 2022

How the Nation of Islam Sent Shockwaves Across 1950s America – And Won the Support of Nasser's Egypt

How the Nation of Islam Sent Shockwaves Across 1950s America – And Won the Support of Nasser's Egypt

In 1958, the Nation of Islam was a powerful organization, on the rise. Soon, the American media, and the world, would take notice.

By Shahan Mufti | November 23, 2022

How a Forgery of a Forgery Began a Career in the Artistic Underworld

How a Forgery of a Forgery Began a Career in the Artistic Underworld

On the Early Days of Tony Tetro's Life as an Art Forger

By Tony Tetro and Giampiero Ambrosi | November 22, 2022

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