Category: True Crime Lit

Interview: Director James Buddy Day on His MGM+ Miniseries, ‘Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein’

Promotional art for 'Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein'

Ed Gein was one of the worst serial killers the United States and the world had ever seen. While he had just two confirmed victims, Mary Hogan and Bernice Worden, he desecrated a number of graves and used the bones, flesh and organs of the deceased to fashion everyday items, meaning the police came across

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Review: The Forest City Killer – Vanessa Brown

This reviewer has read numerous true crime books, primarily non-fiction. Oftentimes, they can be filled with over-dramatizations or they try to sensationalize the events covered. Not only does this tend to take away from the book itself, but it makes light of the events and the crimes – often murders – that occurred. That’s something

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Review: I’ll Be Gone In The Dark – Michelle McNamara

Portion of the front cover of 'I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer'

There’s never been a true crime buff as passionate as Michelle McNamara. The blogger and freelance writer was known for diving headfirst into the crimes she covered, showing a true interest in the genre. The case that had the strongest hold on her was that of the Original Night Stalker/East Area Rapist (EAR), whom she

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