The stories below follow a con man turned true-crime writer, a prison break facilitated by a dog crate, the spectacle of murder fandoms, and more. The Con Man Who Became a True-Crime Writer In his ...

The most-watched series on Netflix today is a true crime docuseries revisiting a notorious and brutal criminal case from the ...

We visit that, too. A 2024 poll from YouGov showed that 57 percent of U.S. adults consume true-crime content and that 5 percent do so every day. Podcasts, documentaries and streaming series are ...

We have an inherent fascination with true crime, reveling in the real-life stories of killers, kidnappings, and unsolved mysteries. These translate to both gripping docuseries and dramatizations ...