A Haunted Road Atlas: Next Stop cover

Were you a fan of A Haunted Road Atlas: Sinster Stops, Dangerous Destinations, and True Crime Tales? If so, you’ll be happy to know that a second book in the same vein (illustrations and all) is coming just in time for Halloween season. A Haunted Road Atlas: Next Stop releasesContinue Reading

American Nightmare

Thank you, 2024. So far just in January, you’ve given us some great true crime docuseries, including Natalia Speaks and now American Nightmare. All I knew about the case covered in American Nightmare prior to watching was how Netflix described it: After a home invasion and abduction, a young couple’sContinue Reading

Crime burglar tourism travel

“Crime tourism is on the rise,” one of our local news anchors said during a recent broadcast. “We’ll discuss where it’s happening and why after the break.” That certainly piqued my interest and made me stick around through commercials. I’ve heard about all kinds of different types of tourism, fromContinue Reading

Kali Reis, Jodie Foster True Detective Night Country

After watching the trailer for True Detective: Night Country, I wondered a couple of things. The first was whether 30 Days of Night was based on a true story. (Minus the vampires, of course.) Because like 30 Days of Night, which was set in Barrow, Alaska, (or Utqiagvik as it’sContinue Reading

Natalia Grace Barnett Mans in Natalia Speaks

The wait finally ended. Natalia Speaks, the much-anticipated follow-up docuseries to ID’s 2023 bombshell docuseries, The Curious Case of Natalia Grace, premiered at the start of this year. (Originally, ID said it’d be released in late summer of 2023.) One key player, Natalia herself, wasn’t among those interviewed in theContinue Reading

Detective magnifying glass in library like Murdle

Updated Nov. 30, 2023 Okay, in all honesty, I don’t know how popular Murdle puzzles truly are. However, it’s one of those things I keep seeing, so I’m guessing it’s fairly popular. Since I love fun and games, FOMO finally got the best of me. I decided to check itContinue Reading

Photo of Christina Boyer nee Tina Resch with flying phone

The Demons & Saviors synopsis explained that the three-part docuseries would tell “the remarkable story of Christina Boyer –once infamously known as the ‘poltergeist girl,’ now a woman convicted of murdering her three-year-old daughter.” The trouble is, did she really murder her daughter, or was she wrongly convicted? That’s whatContinue Reading

Disappeared on ID Title Card

Last year, ID rebooted its groundbreaking missing persons series, Disappeared, which they’re bringing back again. The new season starts on Sunday, August 20 at 10/9 c with a special two-hour premiere, Disappeared: The Bradley Sisters. New episodes about other heartbreaking, unsolved mysteries from across the country will follow weekly thereafter.Continue Reading

Screenshot of Demons and Saviors key art from YouTube trailer

In 1992, former “poltergeist girl” Christina Boyer murdered her three-year-old daughter Amber. Or did she? That’s what the ABC News Studios three-part docuseries Demons and Saviors examines. It starts streaming exclusively on Hulu on Thursday, August 3. As a teenager, Boyers allegedly demonstrated telekinetic powers that drew the attention ofContinue Reading

Hand with butcher knife, zodiac symbols on water and breaching great white shark

I don’t know what’s happening, but ever since summer hit, so has news about new serial killer documentaries. Specifically, Myth of the Zodiac Killer, Sharksploitation, and Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein. Let’s dive in and get our feet wet exploring these original documentaries. Just be sure to watchContinue Reading

People Magazine Investigates cover

The seventh season of People Magazine Investigates premieres with a two-hour examination of the Girl Scout Murders. Three Oklahoma Girl Scouts —Lori Lee Farmer, Doris Denise Milner and Michele Heather Guse— were brutally assaulted and murdered while there were away at summer camp in 1977. (And, no, the murders atContinue Reading

The Playing Card Killer poster

When I started watching The Playing Card Killer, one of my first questions was, “Why didn’t they dub him the Tarot Card Killer instead?” I think it was the card on the cover that drew me to the docuseries to begin with. The cover leading this post differs slightly fromContinue Reading