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John Glatt on Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and Writing About True Crime as It Unfolds

John Glatt on Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and Writing About True Crime as It Unfolds

Glatt speaks with Gabino Iglesias about the horrific crimes behind his new book, The Doomsday Mother

By Gabino Iglesias | April 13, 2022

Poison, Adultery, Scandal, and Murder: The Wild Lives of Journalists in 1890's San Francisco

Poison, Adultery, Scandal, and Murder: The Wild Lives of Journalists in 1890's San Francisco

Mark Arsenault on the scandals that would eventually unite two journalists in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.

By Mark Arsenault | April 12, 2022

<em>Tokyo Vice</em> Revisits the Last Days of a Striking Genre

Tokyo Vice Revisits the Last Days of a Striking Genre

The new series, which is about journalists, police, and yakuza circling one another in milennium-era Japan, is invested in the long history, and fading future, of such a triangle.

By Olivia Rutigliano | April 8, 2022

How ‘Satanic Panic’ Came to Roil the Nation During the 1980s

How ‘Satanic Panic’ Came to Roil the Nation During the 1980s

TV movies, breathless news reports, and amateur symbologists all played a part in the panic's mysterious spread through 1980s America.

By Keith Roysdon | April 8, 2022

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

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Use Yourself

By Lisa Levy | March 31, 2022

The Best New Crime Nonfiction Books: February and March 2022

By CrimeReads | March 29, 2022

The Most Successful Madam in America

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

The Bizarre, Self-Incriminating Confession of Pam Hupp

The Bizarre, Self-Incriminating Confession of Pam Hupp

On a strange incident in the true story that forms the basis for the show The Thing About Pam.

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.

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

Erika Krouse on having the kind of face that spurs others to reveal their fears, anxieties, and darkest revelations.

By Erika Krouse | March 18, 2022

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

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

Ken Croke was an experienced undercover federal agent—and the first to infiltrate the Pagans.

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

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