Crime has always been a subject of fascination. In colonial New England, pamphlets on murders were handed out, featuring recaps of crimes and trials, plus any last words criminals uttered before they ...

The genre is wildly popular across media, but often produced without input from those most affected. Viral videos are helping survivors own their stories. By Shivani Gonzalez On Feb. 9, 2004, Maura ...

Ms. Weinman is an author and the editor of the forthcoming anthology “Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning.” During the end credits of the recent film “Boston Strangler,” which ...

Books, TV shows, movies, documentaries and now podcasts about real-life crime have been popular for years, but, as the “Saturday Night Live” skit “Murder Show” from earlier this season so cleverly ...

If you’re a fan of true crime, you know how easily these real-life mysteries can captivate your attention and keep you watching until the early hours of the morning. They’re gripping, emotional and ...

Netflix’s true-crime documentary series Making a Murderer. Photo: Netflix After the success of HBO’s The Jinx and Netflix’s Making a Murderer, true-crime documentaries became something of an industry ...

Mindy Pendleton panicked when she learned her stepson’s murder would be featured in a true-crime docuseries on Netflix. Her stomach churned in the days leading up to the debut of the show, which ...