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3 days, 22 hours ago

How slip up on shop trip to buy cider snared Bournemouth beach killer

Police have revealed the painstaking CCTV investigation that led to the conviction of Bournemouth beach killer Nasen Saadi. Nasen Saadi has been found guilty of murdering personal trainer Amie Gray on Bournemouth beach Amie Gray, 34, from Poole, was murdered at Durley Chine Beach, West Undercliff Promenade on May 24 Sian Gray with her wife Amie Gray who died after …

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TOM RAWSTORNE: Why a criminology student who stabbed two random women 30 times because he wanted to star in his own murder mystery was so hopeless

Daily Mail

Arriving late for the lecture, the young man took his seat at the back of the hall, not even bothering to remove the pair of large red headphones he was wearing. Amie was described by her mother as some whose 'presence could not be ignored' Sian Gray also paid tribute to her late wife and praised medics who helped her …

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5 days, 3 hours ago

DEAR JANE: My wife has subtle habits that make me fear she is a secret psychopath who will KILL me

Daily Mail

Dear Jane, I love my wife but I've recently found myself obsessing over an unshakeable feeling, so much so that I think about it every day: I fear she is a secret psychopath and that one day she's going to kill me. Recently, she's been loving the new Eddie Redmayne series 'The Day of the Jackal' and Netflix's spy thriller …

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3 weeks ago

Best non-fiction books of 2024: True crime, fandom and the dangers of nostalgia

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Available in book stores and instantly from: Apple Amazon The Haunted Wood: A History of …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Regina Hall’s gig with ‘Cold Case Files’ is the perfect true crime rabbit hole

CNN

CNN — Regina Hall works in the world of fiction, but true crime is a passion that she has been able to incorporate into her professional life. The actress serves as narrator on a new A&E documentary, “Cold Case Files: The Grim Sleeper,” which tells the story of convicted serial killer Lonnie Franklin Jr., who terrorized South Central Los Angeles …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

The baffling real-life connection true crime drama Until I Kill You shares with Netflix hit Baby Reindeer

Daily Mail

True crime drama Until I Kill You and Netflix hit Baby Reindeer share a surprising connection - they both involve the same London pub. True crime drama's Until I Kill You and Netflix hit Baby Reindeer share a surprising connection: They both involve the same London pub Until I Kill You follows Delia Balmer, one of John Sweeney's ex-girlfriends who …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

The 24x7 Craving For Crime Watch

Deccan Chronicle

True crime content has skyrocketed in recent years, becoming a dominant force on streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. This is why many are drawn to true crime — it gives them a sense of preparedness as if they’re mentally equipping themselves to handle possible threats.” Crime Content Craze It’s 11 p.m., and the TV or mobile screen …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

True crime's popularity brings real change for defendants and society. It's not all good

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The popularity and proliferation of …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

I'm a true crime fanatic and I'm blowing my children's £60,000 inheritance to jet to the US to watch a murder trial - because life's too short

Daily Mail

A mother is splurging her children's £60,000 inheritance to tick off her checklist of dreams, including jetting off to the US to watch a murder trial. Ms Eikeland, a true crime mega fan, has so far spent £1,700 travelling from the UK to Florida to watch a murder trial live from the courtroom. Louise Eikeland, 57, inherited the sum of …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Anna Kendrick donates the ‘gross’ money she made from ‘Woman of the Hour’ to charity

LA Times

Anna Kendrick has donated money she made from her directorial debut, “Woman of the Hour,” to charity. Anna Kendrick felt “gross” making money off her latest film, the Netflix true-crime drama about the so-called “Dating Game” killer, and has donated her pay to nonprofits that support survivors of sexual abuse and violence. Renée Williams, the chief executive of NCVC, told …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

‘Dateline’ Correspondent Josh Mankiewicz Officiated The Wedding Of A True Crime Fan He’d Never Met

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Dive deep into true crime cases and follow the latest headlines with HuffPost’s Suspicious Circumstances newsletter. For true crime fans, the traditional wedding vow of “’til death do us part” can strike an ominous tone — after all, in countless cases chronicled in podcassts and documentaries, the husband did it. Josh Mankiewicz: I realized that she was …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story: The problem with Netflix’s mess of a show about the brothers.

Slate

Ryan Murphy’s done it again. Just as inevitably, Ryan Murphy and his co-creator Ian Brennan have been doing the rounds justifying the show’s existence, assuring people that they had the best intentions, making copious noises about handling things sensitively. “This season is about abuse,” Murphy said at the show’s New York premiere, “who is believed, who’s not believed.” In Brennan’s …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

‘48 Hours’ Correspondent Erin Moriarty Talks True Crime’s Power

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Dive deep into true crime cases and follow the latest headlines with HuffPost’s Suspicious Circumstances newsletter. Moriarty contrasted viewers’ reactions to two coerced confession cases, featured decades apart on “48 Hours,” as a sign of how skeptical they have become about police interrogations. I might be a little optimistic here, but I do see a change, and …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Chit Chat: Heartbreak High's Ayesha Madon on her turn to pop music, her fave Parsi dish and more

ABC

The world knows her best as the drama-prone lead of the smash-hit Netflix Heartbreak High reboot, but Ayesha Madon is now re-introducing herself as a pop star. Heartbreak High's surprising season two Photo shows Three teens perch behind a car, bent over and spying on someone. Chatting with ABC Entertainment, Madon talks about melding humour with honesty in her music, …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

'Mean World Syndrome’: Bingeing true crime shows can harm your mental health

Hindustan Times

The thrill of sitting at the edge of your seat is addictive, but the subsequent chill creeping down your spine isn’t worth it. Binge-watching true crime is all-consuming, even addictive; these shows dissect the darker side of human behaviour, retelling the most traumatizing crimes in a dramatised format for public consumption. True crime shows like House of Secrets: The Burari …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

‘The Real CSI: Miami’ Brings True Crime Twist To Franchise

Huff Post

This is an excerpt from our true crime newsletter, Suspicious Circumstances. In “The Real CSI: Miami,” which premieres Wednesday in a primetime spot on CBS, Anthony Zuiker is depicting actual crimes, told through the eyes of real-life forensic investigators rather than actors. It’s a far cry from the notorious one-liners and “sunglasses moments” on “CSI: Miami.” But “The Real CSI” …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

True crime: My cousin was murdered. I spent years working toward telling her story.

Slate

This piece is from the book First Love: Essays on Friendship by Lilly Dancyger. I couldn’t handle them yet, but I knew that eventually I would need to see how other writers had managed to write a “crime story” about something so personal and painful when, as far as I could tell from my previous associations with the genre—mostly the …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Does The Jinx: Part Two mark the end of an era for true crime?

BBC

Does The Jinx: Part Two mark the end of an era for true crime? After six episodes that interrogated US real-estate heir Robert Durst's connection to the mysterious disappearance of his first wife, along with two brutal murders, the season ended with Durst – not realising his mic was still on – heading to the bathroom and uttering to himself …

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8 months ago

Introducing Mail Podcasts: Incredible lives, stories and people....Listen to ALL of our brilliant podcasts in one place on MailOnline

Daily Mail

Browse through and listen to our titles for FREE on the brand new home for Mail Podcasts here Whether it's an award-winning True Crime series or an eye-opening showbiz interview, Mail podcasts have it covered. Jamie said: “Building the team and creating such a brilliant series of podcasts specifically tailored for the Mail audience has been one of the most …

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8 months, 4 weeks ago

How the Menendez brothers case blazed a trail for the true crime genre

LA Times

If there were a Mount Rushmore of true crime, the faces of Erik and Lyle Menendez would certainly be on it. The public’s enduring fascination with the case — and the changing perceptions of the brothers’ defense that they were sexually abused by their father — is the focus of “Menendez Brothers: Victims or Villains,” a new documentary series that …

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10 months, 1 week ago

'Selena & Yolanda: Secrets Between Them' is the latest exploitation of Selena’s memory

LA Times

Earlier this month, the Oxygen network announced “Selena & Yolanda: The Secrets Between Them,” a two-part docuseries airing Saturday that promises to shed new light on the murder of Tejano icon Selena Quintanilla directly from her killer, Yolanda Saldívar. “What bothers me the most is that framing implies that whatever Selena’s secret was, somehow contributed to her death,” Garcia said. …

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10 months, 1 week ago

True-Crime Canon: 25 best podcasts, documentaries, and books.

Slate

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, …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

'Heroic' True Crime Sleuths Helped Identify Hiker Years After His Gruesome Death

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING 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. A true crime filmmaker said she was inspired by the “heroic” efforts of online sleuths who spent years trying to identify a hiker after his emaciated corpse was found …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: I wrote a Black true crime book 20 years ago. Why is the genre still so white?

LA Times

Before true crime had its recent resurgence in American popular culture, I began investigating the murder of Lance Herndon, a Black man. As Janet Nguyen wrote for Marketplace in 2022: “ True crime now consists of seemingly countless sub-genres, spanning multiple platforms that include network and cable television, streaming services and podcasts.” It also attracts a diverse audience: True crime …

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How slip up on shop trip to buy cider snared Bournemouth beach killer

TOM RAWSTORNE: Why a criminology student who stabbed two random women 30 times because he wanted to star in his own murder mystery was so hopeless

DEAR JANE: My wife has subtle habits that make me fear she is a secret psychopath who will KILL me

Best non-fiction books of 2024: True crime, fandom and the dangers of nostalgia

Regina Hall’s gig with ‘Cold Case Files’ is the perfect true crime rabbit hole

The baffling real-life connection true crime drama Until I Kill You shares with Netflix hit Baby Reindeer

The 24x7 Craving For Crime Watch

True crime's popularity brings real change for defendants and society. It's not all good

I'm a true crime fanatic and I'm blowing my children's £60,000 inheritance to jet to the US to watch a murder trial - because life's too short

Anna Kendrick donates the ‘gross’ money she made from ‘Woman of the Hour’ to charity

‘Dateline’ Correspondent Josh Mankiewicz Officiated The Wedding Of A True Crime Fan He’d Never Met

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story: The problem with Netflix’s mess of a show about the brothers.

‘48 Hours’ Correspondent Erin Moriarty Talks True Crime’s Power

Chit Chat: Heartbreak High's Ayesha Madon on her turn to pop music, her fave Parsi dish and more

'Mean World Syndrome’: Bingeing true crime shows can harm your mental health

‘The Real CSI: Miami’ Brings True Crime Twist To Franchise

True crime: My cousin was murdered. I spent years working toward telling her story.

Does The Jinx: Part Two mark the end of an era for true crime?

Introducing Mail Podcasts: Incredible lives, stories and people....Listen to ALL of our brilliant podcasts in one place on MailOnline

How the Menendez brothers case blazed a trail for the true crime genre

'Selena & Yolanda: Secrets Between Them' is the latest exploitation of Selena’s memory

True-Crime Canon: 25 best podcasts, documentaries, and books.

'Heroic' True Crime Sleuths Helped Identify Hiker Years After His Gruesome Death

Opinion: I wrote a Black true crime book 20 years ago. Why is the genre still so white?