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Investigating the Cold Case That Inspired <em>Twin Peaks</em>

Investigating the Cold Case That Inspired Twin Peaks

A trip to upstate New York, where Mark Frost once heard stories of an unsolved murder from the early 1900s.

By Mark T. Givens and David Bushman | April 6, 2022

The Best International True Crime Podcasts for Spring 2022

The Best International True Crime Podcasts for Spring 2022

Paul French rounds up some of the best true crime investigations and stories from around the world.

By Paul French | April 1, 2022

Use Yourself

Use Yourself

In Tell Me Everything, Erika Krouse becomes a private investigator and lands in a complex sexual assault case

By Lisa Levy | March 31, 2022

The Best New Crime Nonfiction Books: February and March 2022

The Best New Crime Nonfiction Books: February and March 2022

The Bloody Benders, the search for the Zodiac, an accidental private eye, and more.

By CrimeReads | March 29, 2022

The Most Successful Madam in America

The Most Successful Madam in America

How Nellie Jackson went from sex worker to madam to highly connected civil rights advocate.

By Sara A Mueller | March 23, 2022

<Em>Morbid</em> Podcast Host and Autopsy Technician Alaina Urquhart Talks True Crime and Turning to Fiction

Morbid Podcast Host and Autopsy Technician Alaina Urquhart Talks True Crime and Turning to Fiction

"I do wish the people involved in producing these onscreen autopsies would consult an anatomy book beforehand."

By Molly Odintz | March 22, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

The Bizarre, Self-Incriminating Confession of Pam Hupp

By Charles Bosworth Jr. and Joel J. Schwartz | March 18, 2022

People Have Always Told Me Their Secrets. That's Why I Became A Private Investigator.

By Erika Krouse | March 18, 2022

What Life Was Like for an Undercover Federal Agent Prospecting with the Pagans, the Outlaw Motorcycle Club

By Ken Croke and Dave Wedge | March 16, 2022

The Canadian Spy Novelist Ordered To Reveal His Sources

The Canadian Spy Novelist Ordered To Reveal His Sources

On Ian Adams, who bridged the gap between literature and espionage, even as he stood up for journalistic principles.

By Luke Beirne | March 11, 2022

How the Bounty Mutineers Found Their New Home on a Secret Pacific Island

How the Bounty Mutineers Found Their New Home on a Secret Pacific Island

Pitcairn was an anomaly – lost to British mapmakers. So that's where the fugitive mutineers set out to forge a new future.

By Brandon Presser | March 10, 2022

Sex and the City: The Spectacular Love Life of Mafia Boss Sonny Franzese

Sex and the City: The Spectacular Love Life of Mafia Boss Sonny Franzese

"Her boyfriend was not far away on stage, but Sonny was not at all concerned."

By S. J. Peddie | March 10, 2022

The Unusual, Unsettling Crimes of the Other Dr. Gilmer

The Unusual, Unsettling Crimes of the Other Dr. Gilmer

"In rural Appalachia, a man with my name and my profession strangled his father in the passenger seat of his Toyota Tacoma."

By Dr. Benjamin Gilmer | March 3, 2022

The Murders in 1970s Montana That Finally Brought the FBI's Profiling Program Into the Field

The Murders in 1970s Montana That Finally Brought the FBI's Profiling Program Into the Field

They had interviewed dozens of killers. But their theories were untested in an active investigation.

By Ron Franscell | March 2, 2022

A Corporate Headhunter Spills His Secrets

A Corporate Headhunter Spills His Secrets

Clients were desperate for the non-public intelligence provided by elite headhunters. That's where the ruse came in.

By Robert Kerbeck | March 2, 2022

Who Was Victoria Zielinski? And Who Would She Have Become, If Not For Her Murder?

Who Was Victoria Zielinski? And Who Would She Have Become, If Not For Her Murder?

Read from the new book by Sarah Weinman, Scoundrel.

By Sarah Weinman | March 1, 2022

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