“Charlie Manson’s Hollywood”
“Maybe more than anything else Charlie Manson’s story is a Hollywood story.” You Must Remember This podcast looks at the Manson Murders and “Charlie Manson’s Hollywood.” Here’s part 1. (Thanks, Colin!)
On The Media: True Crime
On The Media dedicates an hour to the true crime genre.
“The Husband Did It”
At The Awl, Alice Bolin writes about Gone Girl, Serial, true crime television and “Why it’s scarier for a man to be accused than for a woman to be killed”: “It’s clear we love the Dead Girl, but we don’t empathize with her. If we did, we might […]
“The Art of Stealing”
Lex Boon explores “The Art of Stealing: The Tragic Fate of The Masterpieces Stolen from Rotterdam”: “Picasso, Gauguin, Matisse, Monet, Meijer de Haan and Freud. On television they are talking about a loot worth hundreds of millions of euros. The amount is not important to her. The pictures […]
Escaping the Truck Stop Killer
“[It] occurred to me that this investigation of mine wasn’t a detective novel. It was a ghost story.” In 1985, Vanessa Veselka escaped a terrifying trucker who probably was Robert Ben Rhoades, the Truck Stop Killer and, years later, tries to understand her experience and learn more about […]
Ninjas Strike!
Ninjas strike with “justified yet merciful force” in New Jersey and are arrested by the police.
