Not long ago, true crime storytellers had little in the way of first-person footage captured in real time to rely on. Now, as much of our daily lives are documented, the genre is transforming.
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Each year, about five thousand people kill someone and don’t get caught, and a percentage of these men and women have undoubtedly killed more than once.
It’s an uphill battle. I probably won’t succeed. But I’ve been here before. I know what it’s like facing impossible odds.
One of the reasons that some of these investigators and attorneys spoke in our documentary, even though they may have told their story in the past, is to continue to get the message out that these people are out there, and that evil, unfortunately, does exist in this capacity. And the more we can le…
You'd be surprised how many are out there. There are a lot of peeping Toms.
Fear not because these two Australian lesbians decided to inadvertently pitch a really good one in a bunch of gas stations over this last weekend!
The woman, Raffaela Spone, 50, is now facing three misdemeanor counts of cyber harassment of a child and related offenses.
She said her boyfriend instructed to pack “nothing” for the trip and that she was going to be in a “remote area” of Canada without cellphone service.
All of this played out perfectly for Keith Smith—or all of it, perhaps, except for Oprah elevating this story to the attention of a national audience, because in reality, the murderous panhandler who was supposedly responsible for killing his wife never existed.
Belief is a powerful force for the devout. It can — as is often said — move mountains. It can also lead a person to possibly murder their spouse and children, and then run off to Hawaii to be with their one true love, a former gravedigger-turned-writer of Mormon-themed apocalyptic self-published nov…
Capt. Hernandez said the victim was lucky to have survived her ordeal.
I don't want to be in a good mood just because it makes people feel comfortable.
According to police, the memory card was handed over to authorities on Sept. 30 by a woman who said she found it on an Anchorage street.
I'm gonna take a quiz to see how good my true crime knowledge is.
Was she even Bianca Devins? Was Clark her ex, a current boyfriend or an aggressive stalker? And to which internet cliques did either party belong?
You may have already heard about Jennifer Dulos, the Connecticut mother of five who went missing from her New Canaan house in May. Her husband and his girlfriend were arrested in connection with her disappearance and compared her case to Gone Girl (which the author of the book condemned). But it's n…
I’m sorry. I’m sorry I treated you as entertainment.
While on trial for a murder I didn’t commit, my prosecutor painted me as a sex-crazed femme fatale, and the media profited for years by sensationalizing an already sensational and utterly unjustified story. It’s on us to stop making and stop consuming such irresponsible media.
When you’re on my side of this, you see just how people set out to destroy other people’s lives. It’s just horrible. All I want to do is try to live my life within the confines of the law, but people always think about that nickname when they find out who I am.
It was in a word: surreal. I was in a hotel in Chicago after having just done a book event for "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" with Paul Haynes and Patton Oswalt. I found out there was a press conference but little other information. Then I just started digging. I didn't go to bed that night.