As a true crime fan, albeit one who attempts to indulge respectfully and responsibly in the genre, I started watching The Idaho Student Murders with a hefty sense of suspicion and doubt. I was worried that this would be another example of a callous rehashing of four horrific slayings, but I was surprised by how detailed and well-produced it was....
The best true-crime documentaries make you vacillate between "They did it!" and "They're innocent!" Investigation Discovery's captivating new series A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read does just that. Now streaming on ID and Max, the five-episode docuseries follows the story of Karen Read, a woman accused of murdering her boyfriend, Boston...
Though muddled at times, the new Errol Morris Netflix documentary, Chaos: The Manson Murders, is definitely worth a watch, especially if you're still obsessing over the Manson Family murders over 50 years later. The film is adapted from Tom O'Neill's 2019 book, CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, and O'Neill...
The 1981 Wonderland Massacre is one of the most lurid true crime tales of our age, not simply because of the viciousness of the crimes — 4 people found bludgeoned to death in an apartment in the Hollywood Hills — but because of the tangled web of illegal drugs, pornography, organized crime, and celebrity that it spun out of. The crime inspired ...
If I learned one thing from Woman of the Hour, it's that it was way too easy to be a serial killer in the '70s. If I learned two things, though, it's that Anna Kendrick is a skilled director with an eye for building tension and visual storytelling. Kendrick makes her directorial debut with this true crime thriller, which was written by Ian...
For the first time since he was arrested in 2003, Scott Peterson opens up about the murder of his wife, Laci Peterson, who was eight-months pregnant when she disappeared on Christmas Eve in 2002. Peterson maintains that he is innocent despite mounting evidence that points to the contrary, but the Innocence Project appears to think there's...
When it comes to engaging true-crime television, it doesn't get better than Unsolved Mysteries. Volume 4 of Netflix's revival of the iconic series recently dropped, gifting fans with five new episodes. From Jack the Ripper to The Mothman, the new season is an eclectic mix of mysteries, but the best of the bunch are "Murder, Center Stage," which...