True-crime fandom may be booming, but that doesn’t mean that our cultural fascination with evil and transgression is new. Originally published in four parts for the New Yorker, Capote’s tale of a grisly murder on a Kansas farm offered exquisite, meditative insight into the minds of killers and the community upended by their violence—a far cry from “If it bleeds, …
This is an excerpt from our true crime newsletter, Suspicious Circumstances, which sends the biggest unsolved mysteries, white-collar scandals, and captivating cases straight to your inbox every week. Shannan Gilbert’s body wouldn’t be found for another year, in different circumstances, but “Lost Girls” and the book that inspired it — journalist Robert Kolker’s 2013 bestseller of the same name — …
Watch The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper: The Gilgo Beach Killer Sunday at 8 p.m. “Significantly, Defendant Heuermann also searched for and viewed articles concerning the very Task Force that was investigating him.” ‘Barely a peep from the police’ Melissa Barthelemy, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Amber Lynn Costello and Megan Waterman. “It’s simply a stunning development,” Robert Kolker, the author of the …
Three films, Beautiful Beings, the animation film My Love Affair with Marriage, and a ‘family-made’ thriller The Island of Lost Girls were screened at the 53rd International Film Festival of India earlier today. “My director Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson came up with this idea to make a film on such a delicate subject where violence also plays a critical role, based …
