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.

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 ...

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.

True Crime ‘A tragic ending to a horrible drama’: Convicted of murders as a teen, he killed himself in prison. January 25, 2017. Alec Kreider is escorted from District Justice David P. Miller ...

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.

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 ...

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.

True crime is all over TV, ... Do you think it offers enough nuance and enough new insight to revisit this, you know, horrible story that has been told so many times?

For me, watching true crime TV is like eating my favorite candy in bed at three o’clock in the morning. Although I may feel a bit guilty about doing it, I cannot stop, because it is such tasty fun!

True-crime documentaries are a foundational part of Netflix — and some of the most popular shows on the site. With shocking limited series that tackle horrible injustices, ...

The story of Erik and Lyle Menendez has gripping elements, but the first two hours of Dick Wolf's NBC miniseries 'Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders' are full of filler and wigs.