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What’s our ruling on Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers?

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Published: November 3, 2025 22:05

The recent Netflix documentary on sui generis murderer Aileen Wuornos does a few things well, but does it leave too many things unsaid?

Old-school spiritualist scams; New York cold cases

https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2025/10/old-school-spiritualist-scams-new-york-cold-cases-true-crime/

Published: October 31, 2025 15:19

Plus Jim McGreevey, the Kingfish, and more Halloween true-crime reads.

Don’t Date Brandon is an engaging look at female solidarity and toxic masculinity

https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2025/10/dont-date-brandon-true-crime-review/

Published: October 27, 2025 16:00

New true crime series Don't Date Brandon turns the standard love fraud narrative tropes on its head.

New True Crime For October: Aileen Wuornos, The DC Sniper, and Brandon Johnson

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Published: October 21, 2025 15:10

Hunted By My Husband: The Untold Story Of The DC Sniper October 28, Investigation Discovery I’ll spare you my feelings on months dedicated to concerns we should have all year and will just note that October is apparently Domestic Violence Awareness Month,…

Murderland, Murdaugh fatigue, and making room on the subway

https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2025/10/murderland-murdaugh-fatigue-and-making-room-on-the-subway-true-crime/

Published: October 20, 2025 13:32

The "one simple trick" to getting a seat? Reading garishly designed copaganda from the eighties.

The Alabama Solution: “We’re at a humanitarian-crisis level”

https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2025/10/the-alabama-solution-true-crime-review/

Published: October 14, 2025 14:14

Andrew Jarecki's latest HBO doc takes testimony from incarcerated men in Alabama. Should you look inside?

Read-Handed: A Ponzi prequel and felony slut-shaming

https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2025/10/read-handed-a-ponzi-prequel-and-felony-slut-shaming-true-crime/

Published: October 11, 2025 22:39

Alice Crimmins, Leo Koretz, bad science, the return of Best American Crime Writing, and more in our reading round-up.

Escaping cults and sentencing Combs

https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2025/10/escaping-cults-and-sentencing-combs-true-crime/

Published: October 9, 2025 20:07

Plus Harold Schechter has notes on The Ed Gein Story, and a lady preacher goes missing.

Monster: The Ed Gein Story is too much

https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2025/10/monster-the-ed-gein-story-tries-to-do-too-much-and-takes-too-long-true-crime/

Published: October 6, 2025 17:41

The franchise's "Ghoul of Plainfield" chapter is too long and grisly, and has too many ideas -- one of which is that you and I are the problem?

6 true-crime audiobook narrators to keep an ear on

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Published: September 23, 2025 16:33

3 hall-of-famers and 3 up-and-comers, on cases from Wyatt Earp to Watergate.