• True Crime

    The Strange Real-Life Mystery Behind Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"

    Fact meets fiction in Poe’s classic story of a murderer.

    February 13, 2023  By Dean Jobb
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    The Launch of a 19th Century Sex-Cult in Upstate New York

    John Humphrey Noyes was a reserved, shy young man – until he found religion and his own utopian, free-love, open marriage cult.

    February 7, 2023  By Susan Wels
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    “They just weren’t the kind of people for that”: The 1934 Smith Family Massacre in Demopolis, Alabama

    On "an appalling family tragedy" that reappeared in a 1944 detective novel.

    February 3, 2023  By Curtis Evans
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    The Best Nonfiction Crime Books of the Month

    Spy histories, Waco Texas, and police corruption in Oakland.

    January 27, 2023  By CrimeReads 
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    Warren G. Harding: 100 Years Since the Death of a President Straight Out of a Coen Brothers' Movie

    Did the Harding Administration's rampant corruption and incompetency pave the way for a new century of politics?

    January 23, 2023  By Zack Budryk
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    When Fictionalizing True Crime, How Do You Avoid Exploitation?

    Character is key to crafting a sensitive story that is far from sensationalist.

    January 9, 2023  By Amanda Pellegrino
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    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?"

    January 6, 2023  By John Copenhaver
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    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."

    January 3, 2023  By Beezy Marsh
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    Crime and the City: Karachi

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

    January 3, 2023  By Paul French
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    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.

    January 3, 2023  By Gwen Florio
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