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Kate Summerscale’s The Peepshow takes a new view on an old case

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Published: May 19, 2025 17:57

The author of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher re-centers the 10 Rillington Place murders. Should you add it to your TBR?

The Bakersfield 3: “It’s better if you don’t know”

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Published: May 17, 2025 18:20

Three mothers come together to try to prove their kids' cases are related. Is the ID series on the intertwined mysteries trying to prove something too?

Whack Job: Is the pen mightier than the axe?

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Published: May 12, 2025 13:17

Rachel McCarthy James's "history of axe murder" isn't exactly that; you should give it a chance anyway.

Coben, Combs, and clowns: 5 true-crime stories to watch

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Published: May 9, 2025 15:00

Plus axe murders, hip-hop lyrics, and the true-crime/mystery-novel pipeline.

Dark Side of the Ring’s latest is a crushing combo of drugs and delusion

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Published: May 7, 2025 19:50

An exclusive interview with alleged wife-killer Billy Jack Haynes places this episode of the wrestling-focused docuseries firmly into the true crime weight class.

True Crime Story: Look Into My Eyes looks for justice in grief

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Published: April 27, 2025 13:18

The AMC docuseries about a literally hypnotic high-school principal and the deaths of three students is onto something, but may take too long.

Is Unseamly: The Investigation of Peter Nygård still worth watching?

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Published: April 24, 2025 17:17

Discovery's look at fashion mogul Nygård's life of crime dropped four years ago. Has it held up?

2025 Edgar Awards round-up: predictions and objections

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Published: April 21, 2025 13:00

Our Edgars correspondent Susan Howard on who will win Best Fact Crime; who SHOULD win; and overlooked books.

How much true crime is on Sidney Lumet’s c.v.?

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Published: April 18, 2025 19:26

The Best Evidence True-Crime Résumé Percentage tackles its first director, plus confronting the definition of "major case" (and a bad Vin Diesel hairpiece).

2025 Edgars round-up: The Bishop and the Butterfly

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Published: April 14, 2025 13:00

Susan Howard wraps this year's Best Fact Crime overview with a look at a Tammany Hall story that may have overreached.

Read-handed: Doggie dupes and dead du Ponts

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Published: April 11, 2025 15:39

Plus fake Pitts, phone flim-flams, Dominick Dunne, and Marcia Clark in our latest reading round-up.

2025 Edgar Awards round-up: Hell Put to Shame

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Published: April 7, 2025 13:00

Earl Swift's history of an infamous Georgia massacre, with ties to an equally infamous wrongful conviction.