The first season of HBO's True Detective changed TV crime, but the show's Netflix rival went even further with its cinematic ...

Why are we so fascinated with serial killers? In our current moment, people have found themselves purveying true crime podcasts, documentaries, and serial killer movies with Hannibal Lecter ...

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Every so often a “hot property” in true crime emerges with a whiff of exploitationism, e.g., Netflix documentary The Murder of Rachel Nickell. It was released on the same day as a fictionalized ...

Few things are as dependable in television as the annual onslaught of true-crime nightmares. Each year, a new crop of gruesome, devastating and, admit it, often fascinating documentaries about the ...

If women are psychologically drawn to true crime, seeing the stories of female victims as a survival guide, what do they get from cases in which women are the killers? “The female perpetrator is much, ...

Why watch a train wreck when you can watch true crime? There's something undeniably alluring about watching characters in a TV show commit fraud or murder — all while knowing that what you're seeing ...