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The Truth About Snitching

The Truth About Snitching

Our legal system is intensely reliant on informants and the unregulated, mostly unknown deals that guide them into an ever-more dangerous life.

By Alexandra Natapoff | November 15, 2022

On Writing Nonfiction About Violence For A Young Adult Audience

On Writing Nonfiction About Violence For A Young Adult Audience

Four pointers to keep in mind for "presenting ugly realities" to young audiences.

By Sarah Miller | November 9, 2022

When Truman Capote Met Ann Woodward, Recently Minted Widow, in Saint Moritz

When Truman Capote Met Ann Woodward, Recently Minted Widow, in Saint Moritz

Woodward had killed her husband. Now she was dining out at one of Europe's most exclusive restaurants, with Claus von Bülow.

By Roseanne Montillo | November 8, 2022

On Writing About Women Who Kill

On Writing About Women Who Kill

Alia Trabucco Zerán on What Drew Her to the Topic

By Alia Trabucco Zerán | November 8, 2022

Boston's Combat Zone: Why Two Authors Were Drawn to the Same 45 Year-Old Crime

Boston's Combat Zone: Why Two Authors Were Drawn to the Same 45 Year-Old Crime

A 1976 murder captured the interest of two Boston-area authors, who took very different approaches to the story.

By Gabriel Valjan and Jan Brogan | November 4, 2022

Four Books to Try to Understand Why Children Kill

Four Books to Try to Understand Why Children Kill

"[T]he quest to understand the reasons for violence in the young is not one that offers easy answers..."

By Lisa Ballantyne | November 2, 2022

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The Manhattan Well Mystery: On America's First Media Circus Around a Murder Case

By Sam Roberts | October 25, 2022

The Best Nonfiction Crime Books of October

By CrimeReads | October 19, 2022

Eight Years Later, Searching for Answers in a Mexican Journalist's Murder

By Katherine Corcoran | October 18, 2022

The Trouble with Amateur Hired Killers

The Trouble with Amateur Hired Killers

"Incredibly, some of these murder plots are all but advertised in the newspaper before they occur."

By Deborah Holt Larkin | October 14, 2022

The Journalist and the Psychopath: The Story Behind Edward Howard Rulloff's Crimes

The Journalist and the Psychopath: The Story Behind Edward Howard Rulloff's Crimes

Ham Freeman was an Upstate New York journalist with big ambitions. Edward Howard Rulloff was a nationally notorious killer.

By Kate Winkler Dawson | October 6, 2022

The Best New True Crime Books Out Now

The Best New True Crime Books Out Now

Mafia women, a Jazz Age murder mystery, and an online obsession.

By CrimeReads | September 30, 2022

How Leopold and Loeb Ended up with the Country's Most Famous Lawyer

How Leopold and Loeb Ended up with the Country's Most Famous Lawyer

The nation's fascination with the young killers extended to Clarence Darrow, who had his own peculiar views on criminality.

By Greg King and Penny Wilson | September 22, 2022

8 True Crime Podcasts You Need to Listen to This Fall

8 True Crime Podcasts You Need to Listen to This Fall

The best new crime stories and conversations coming to a podcast feed near you.

By Lizzy Steiner | September 21, 2022

Joe Pompeo on the Murders That Gave Rise to the New York Tabloids and Modern True Crime

Joe Pompeo on the Murders That Gave Rise to the New York Tabloids and Modern True Crime

A new book sheds new light on one of the Jazz Age's most scandalous murder investigations.

By Kevin Canfield | September 14, 2022

Arnold Rothstein: New York’s First Criminal Genius

Arnold Rothstein: New York’s First Criminal Genius

"[H]e realized before anyone else what Prohibition was going to be like and the opportunities it presented."

By Michael Mayo | September 14, 2022

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