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Book Review: Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay

By Doreen Sheridan

March 2, 2021

It’s hard to believe that this highwire act of tight plotting, alternating perspectives, and shifting timelines is a debut novel, but Alex Finlay’s Every Last Fear is a remarkable addition to the thriller genre, juggling all its many plot points so deftly that it kept me guessing whodunnit and why till the very end. Matt…

A Quick-Start Guide: How Do I Know If Tiger King Is For Me? 

By Steve Erickson

March 31, 2020

Is Tiger King for me? I’m glad you asked! Watching Netflix’s Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness is a decision everyone must make for him/herself. There is no hard scientific data to determine when you’re ready to let Tiger King happen to you, so that’s why I put this quick-start guide together. My hope is…

Netflix’s Latest True Crime Documentary, I Am a Killer, Focuses on the Stories of Convicted Killers on Death Row

By Crime HQ

August 16, 2018

So often, true crime documentaries focus on cases where the truth is unknown. New evidence either puts into question the conviction or reopens an investigation, and often times, the ambiguous ending can be frustrating. Netflix’s new true crime documentary, I Am a Killer, takes a different approach to true crime, interviewing death-row inmates about the murders…

Netflix to Stream New True Crime Docuseries The Staircase

By Crime HQ

May 24, 2018

A story over 15 years in the making… On December 9, 2011, American novelist Michael Peterson phoned an emergency line to report that he found his wife, Kathleen Peterson, unconscious but breathing at the bottom of the stairs of their home. What seemed like an accident was soon ruled a murder, and Michael Peterson was…

HBO and Sky Announce Upcoming Docuseries, The Case Against Adnan Syed

By Crime HQ

May 17, 2018

HBO and Sky (Europe’s largest pay TV provider) are working together to co-produce a new docuseries, The Case Against Adnan Syed, which is based on the 1999 killing of Baltimore high school student Hae Min Lee and subsequent conviction of ex-boyfriend Syed. In production since 2015, The Case Against Adnan Syed will further explore the events leading up to…

Unmasking a Killer, Part 2: “The Pattern of a Killer” Episode Review

By Ardi Alspach

March 22, 2018

While Episode 1 of HLN’s newest docuseries, Unmasking a Killer, gave us a broad overview of everything that happened in the original search for the Golden State Killer—also known as the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker—Episode 2 dives deep into the killer’s modus operandi, or the particular way in which he committed…

Unmasking a Killer, Part 1: “Launching the Manhunt for The Golden State Killer” Episode Review

By Ardi Alspach

March 15, 2018

Close your windows and lock your doors, friends, because the most prolific killer/rapist in California history is still at large. Between 1976 and 1986, this unknown subject raped at least 51 people and murdered at least 12 across the state of California—that we know of. He was originally known as the East Area Rapist for…

Watch the Trailer for HLN’s Upcoming True Crime Docuseries Unmasking a Killer

By Crime HQ

March 12, 2018

HLN is reopening the manhunt for the Golden State Killer with their upcoming five-part docuseries Unmasking a Killer, premiering Sunday, March 18 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The Golden State Killer is one of the most prolific serial killers in history, evading capture for roughly 40 years and being tied to 51 attacks and 12 murders…

Watch the Official Trailer for Netflix’s Upcoming True Crime Docuseries Wormwood

By Crime HQ

December 7, 2017

Biological warfare. LSD. CIA conspiracies. Netflix’s upcoming true crime documentary has all this and more. Directed by the legendary Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line), Wormwood deals with the mysterious case of Frank Olson, his involvement with the CIA and the MK-ULTRA project, and his apparent suicide. A biological warfare scientist and bacteriologist, Frank Olson…

The Poe Myth Still Buried: Reviewing PBS’s Buried Alive

By Susan Amper

November 3, 2017

This week, PBS aired a documentary on Poe titled, Buried Alive. It should have been, Buried Anew. It was too much to hope that the film would actually set the record straight about Poe. Yet the advance write-up on the PBS website said all the right things. The film would sweep away the “misrepresentations” of Poe and…

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