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A Fresh Look at a Sensational 1843 Murder Case and Its Fallout

When a Teen Was Shot Dead, the Tragedy for This Author Was Personal

Two Memoirs of Survival and Its Long Shadow

Read All About It! The Long and Bloody History of True Crime Lit.

His Mother Spoke Truth to Power, Until She Was Killed for It

A Country Where ‘Some People Need Killing’ Was State Policy

A Sister’s Murder and the Language of Violence

The Best True Crime of 2022

The Cultural Dread of the Bad Mother

When Jim Crow Violence Came to a Small New York Village

The True-Life Inspiration for Dostoyevsky’s Famous Murderer

Mysterious Disappearances, Jewel Heists and Creepy Babysitters

True Crime Gets Its Close-Up

The Deaths of Teenage Cousins in a Village in India Have Global Ramifications

A Dead White Girl, a Black Suspect and Justice on the Jersey Shore

Who Is to Blame?

In ‘Memorial Drive’ a Poet Evokes Her Childhood and Confronts Her Mother’s Murder

New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Betsey Johnson to Pot in San Francisco