True crime is booming, and we sometimes view the genre as a harmless distraction, mere entertainment. That’s a mistake. The justice system is the core of our democracy, and our faith in it is ...

The drama tells the story of a cold case that went unsolved for 16 years and the arduous journey to finding the killer.

True-crime tourists are willing to shell out to see the sites of mob hits, serial killer trails and missing persons cases.

However, Banner says he's also concerned that true crime's use of certain tropes to tell compelling narratives affects perceptions of the criminal justice system. He says the genre focuses on ...

Netflix unveiled the "American Murder: Laci Peterson" true-crime docuseries in August, giving new perspective to the case with interviews from Laci's mother, Sharon Rocha, and Peterson's former ...

Absolutely riveting, a book you won’t forget. Kate Summerscale more or less singlehandedly detonated the recent explosion in true crime with her award-laden account of a gruesome child murder in ...

As recounted in Richard Esposito’s Jimmy Breslin: The Man Who Told The Truth (Crime Ink, 360 pp.), Breslin's head pounded the bar with such force that witnesses differed over whether he went ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link 2024 has been a big year for true crime. The genre has grown to new heights in the past decade, as streaming services and podcasts feed ...

There’s nothing quite like curling up on the couch late at night when everyone else has gone to bed to watch a true crime show ... and Ken Armstrong news article, An Unbelievable Story of ...