• True Crime

    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"

    January 3, 2023  By Flora Collins
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    My Favorite Con Artists

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

    December 21, 2022  By Victoria Thompson
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    The Best International True Crime Podcasts for Winter 2022-23

    Heists, fugitives, and cold cases from around the globe.

    December 19, 2022  By Paul French
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    The Best True Crime Books of the Year

    Elusive crimes from the American frontiers, family investigations, and a new theory in the Zodiac killings rounded out the year's best crime nonfiction.

    December 17, 2022  By CrimeReads 
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    On Choosing our #MeToo Heroes: Journalists or Survivors?

    "[A]re journalists the most apt heroes in unravelling the thorny issues of a #MeToo mystery?  Or is it time that we move to a survivor-centered narrative?"

    December 15, 2022  By Winnie M. Li
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    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.

    December 15, 2022  By J. Kingston Pierce
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    8 True Crime Podcasts You Need to Listen to this Winter

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

    December 15, 2022  By Lizzy Steiner
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    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.

    December 7, 2022  By Beverly Gage
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    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.

    November 29, 2022  By Don Stradley
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    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.

    November 28, 2022  By Cordy Abbott
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