This article originally appeared on Rolling Stone. The Jeffrey Epstein story has all the trappings of a salacious news story: power, wealth, sex, abuse, celebrity, and corruption. But even though we know...
The precise moment it hit me, I'll admit, is unclear. Was it when "Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness" producers Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin treated us to our first glimpse of Joe Exotic's magnificently...
On Aug. 15, 2018, Chris Watts was arrested and subsequently confessed to killing his pregnant wife, Shanann, and their two daughters, Cece and Bella. The story became an immediate media sensation. Watts...
The story of Oscar Pistorius is truly the definition of a meteoric rise and fall. The Paralympic — and then Olympic — sprinter defied odds and fought for the chance to compete victoriously against able-bodied...
There is an unquestioned tenet that’s integral to spending time on the internet, a sort of “rule zero” — don’t f**k with cats. This is the rule that sparks the enthralling, twisted investigation that the...
True crime fandom often suffers from an unpleasantly smug, self-satisfied sense of its own cleverness. While it takes a certain degree of morbid curiosity and gallows humor to persistently return again...
The story of Jeffrey MacDonald has been told over and over again since he was convicted of killing his family 50 years ago. The Green Beret Army Surgeon claimed that a group of four "hippie" intruders...
"The Most Dangerous Animal of All" is a new four-part documentary series on FX that explores Gary L. Stewart's search for his biological father, Earl Van Best Jr., only to uncover evidence that suggests...
If you haven't tried HBO's Mark Wahlberg-produced true crime documentary "McMillions," then Monday's episode is prime time to catch up. Not only is it Presidents' Day – the day when we honor the capitalism...
Twelve years ago, Illinois governor Rod Blagojevech was arrested for his part in a scheme to sell or trade Barack Obama's Senate seat, which Obama was vacating to assume the presidency, to the highest...
Amy Ryan is such a captivating scene stealer, you might be surprised to realize she almost never has top billing. But after a career spent in supporting roles in "Gone Baby Gone," "Birdman," and "The the...
Over the course of three years, 1979 to 1981, at least 30 African American children and young adults in Atlanta were abducted and killed. Wayne Williams, a young black man, was subsequently arrested and...
The buzz surrounding the new Netflix limited docuseries "Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez" began Tuesday, as people waited for the episodes to premiere at midnight. "Who else refreshing [their]...
At one point in time, Henry Lee Lucas had confessed to killing over 600 people, an impossibly large number rendered even more incredible by the geographical spread of the supposed crimes. The number had...
In 2004, Daniel Yuen's parents sent their teenage son to CEDU Running Springs, a therapeutic boarding for troubled teens in California. Yuen had fallen into a deep depression and this seemed like the Jersey...
In October 2014, SWAT team officers and DEA agents kicked down the doors of 32 people around Denver, all members of a massive marijuana-smuggling ring. For almost five years, the group had fooled regulators...