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Bayou crimes mostly go unpunished in HBO doc
HBO's The Pet Cemetery Murders reveals Louisiana's 1985 pet cemetery owner murder remains unsolved after 25 years.
AV Club · 1m

Russell Crowe's Unabomber Netflix Thriller Hits Streaming Charts
Russell Crowe's Unabomber thriller tops Netflix's global movie chart after Sept. 25 release.
Polygon · 1m

David Krumholtz's Acting Hiatus Over
Supergirl actor David Krumholtz ends acting hiatus after joining true crime series.
AV Club · 1m

Hulu's Top 10 True Crime Documentaries Now Streaming
Hulu's 10 most compelling true crime docs: from Inuit murders to WeWork's collapse.
Decider · 1m

2Pac Murder Trial Becomes Crime Documentary
A documentary about 2Pac's 1996 murder trial is set for release in 2027.
Billboard · 1m

Lizzie Borden's Ax Mystery: Innocent or Murderer?
Lizzie Borden may not have killed her parents with an ax, her real story is stranger than Netflix's show.
Slate Magazine · 1m

Why Women Love True Crime
True crime shows give women validation through shared pain and moral clarity.
Cosmopolitan · 1m

Monster: Lizzie Borden's True Story vs. Netflix's Take
Netflix's Monster reimagines Lizzie Borden's axe murders with historical twists and dramatic flair.
Mashable · 1m

Charlie Hunnam on Monster Role
Hunnam calls Andrew Borden role 'liberating' after Ed Gein.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m

Monster Creator Ian Brennan Shares 10-Season Plan
Netflix's Monster series creator reveals 10-season roadmap with first female serial killer season.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m

Monster: Lizzie Borden's 19th-Century Veedee
Netflix's 'Monster' shows a 19th-century vibrator in Lizzie Borden's story
Mashable · 1m

Monster: Lizzie Borden's True Crime Legacy
Netflix's new 'Monster' season revisits Lizzie Borden's 1892 murder case, the oldest true crime story ever adapted.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Netflix's Lizzie Borden invents a lover that history forgot
Ryan Murphy's new Monster season reimagines the 1892 murders with a fictional romance between Lizzie and her maid, but historians say it's pure speculation.
Business Insider · 1m

Was Elizabeth Báthory really a serial killer?
Netflix's Monster dramatizes the legend of a 16th-century countess, but historians debate whether she was a murderer or a victim of political slander.
Cosmopolitan · 1m

Did Aileen Wuornos Really Visit Lizzie Borden's House?
Netflix's Monster brings together two infamous female killers, but there's no historical evidence they were ever connected.
Cosmopolitan · 1m

Lizzie Borden: Netflix's fiction vs. real history
Netflix's Monster dramatizes the 1892 murders, but the real case remains unsolved and far more ambiguous than the show suggests.
Cosmopolitan · 2m

Lizzie Borden's mansion reveals a different woman
The accused murderer's lavish home suggests she was far more complex than true crime history remembers.
TIME · 2m

Netflix's new doc exposes Gary Glitter's crimes
A new investigative docuseries traces the glam rocker's decades of child sexual abuse and international flight from justice.
Rolling Stone · 1m

Charlie Hunnam and Rebecca Hall bring camp and tragedy to Monster
The actors discuss playing Lizzie Borden's parents in Ryan Murphy's latest anthology season.
Newsweek · 1m

Five missing women tied to Philadelphia home probe
A federal arrest opened a widening investigation into missing women, recovered images, and a heavily searched Olney property.
ABC7 New York · 1m · 5 views

The pizza bomber heist gets a black comedy
Courteney Cox turns America's strangest bank robbery into a pitch black comedy with Patricia Arquette and David Harbour.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m

A mother, a trial, and a toddler's death
Illinois prosecutors say Corie Walsh killed her 2-year-old son hours after texting friends about Lindsay Clancy's murder trial.
New York Post · 1m

A Hit Man, a Custody Fight, and an FBI Sting
Prosecutors say a TikTok influencer, her lawyer father, and her ex tried to buy a singer's death on the dark web.
Rolling Stone · 2m

A Clancy juror says the verdict was about other women
A juror in the Lindsay Clancy mistrial says the panel wanted to change things for other mothers, and a legal analyst says that is exactly the problem.
Fox News · 2m

An arrest upends the Mississippi hanging story
A Black mother of four was found hanging from a tree in Jackson, and the arrest that followed looked nothing like the story people expected.
Fox News · 1m

Jon Hamm's hostage story is a 1977 mirror
A 48-year-old kidnapping becomes Jon Hamm's way of talking about who gets ignored in America right now.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m

Naked passenger arrested after American Airlines flight lands in Miami
A quiet Friday night flight from Baltimore turned into a police meeting at Gate D2.
Fox News · 1m

One shot in a crowded Santa Monica park
Bodycam shows a man raising a knife over his head and closing on an officer in a packed oceanfront park.
Fox News · 1m

He pulled the trigger. The safety was on.
A Toledo restaurant, a former attorney, and a gun that failed at point-blank range.
Fox News · 1m · 5 views

A cold case, a true-crime show, and a woman on trial twice
Two amateur sleuths spent years and their family land trying to prove Kansas convicted the wrong person, and a Pulitzer-winning editor finally listened.
Rolling Stone · 3m

He sent kind messages. Then a park bench
A 62-year-old Texas engineer beloved by Fox News hosts was killed on a park bench minutes after visiting his mother.
Fox News · 2m · 6 views

Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy play sisters who survived the worst night
Peacock's six-episode Southern Gothic asks you to sit through a brutal opening for the healing that follows.
Vanity Fair · 4m

Florida's 15th execution and the Hog Trail case
A man died by lethal injection for one 1990s killing, while six other bodies in the same woods stayed unsolved.
ABC7 Chicago · 2m

Four Pattinsons, one Oscar race
Robert Pattinson has four films landing at once, and the strangest one may be the one that finally gets him nominated.
Variety · 1m