The man accused of gunning down a Minnesota senator and state representative in a series of "politically motivated" shooting attacks claims he can't sleep because he has no pillow, among other things.

Tell Us About The Wildest True Crime Story From Your Hometown. Crystal Ro. Fri, May 9, ... maybe your town's true crime story actually involved a sex cult that did truly horrible things involving ...

“I think the shock value of what horrible people are capable of is what keeps me coming back to true crime,' BYU student Breanna Wirth said. 'People like to know about the intriguing and ...

True crime has an unfortunate propensity to exploit the victims who serve as its main characters, as Knox notes in her podcast Blood Money, even as it purports to offer them a voice.

In the extreme, the tales of murder depicted in true crime TV shows involve the gruesome and notorious exploits of serial killers such as the late Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy (The ...

True crime podcasting took off in 2014 when “Serial” shattered records with 5 million iTunes downloads. People aren’t just watching documentaries; they’re also listening to them via podcasts.

Another true crime tale that dives into every mother’s deepest fear, Beth Macy’s 2016 Truevine transports readers back to the Jim Crow south town of Truevine, Virginia, where, in 1899, George ...

Nowadays, when people hear “true crime,” it’s understandable the first thing that pops to mind are straight-to-streaming docuseries about some horrible person.

Americans' once-secret love of true crime podcasts, movies, TV and books is now out in the open. Here's some of what's driving our dark consumption habit.

The rise of podcasting is a much-noted driver of the new thirst for true crime stories; long-running podcasts like Casefile, as well as stand-alone series like Dirty John and Dr. Death, have ...