Chalet Arrest

A film about Roman Polanski’s exile becomes part of the story

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Money-Makers: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Notorious Counterfeiters

If colonial paper-hanging sounds dry, just add Ben Tarnoff

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Frame 313: Thank you, Simone

You can boot this dowdily shot, intellectually overcaffeinated conspiracy fail off your Netflix list

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Best Case: Whose Arias-trial coverage is best?

Heather Piedmont assesses four ways to watch the case

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Whoever Fights Monsters: “Crimes in series”

                  The godfather of profiling’s brisk memoir holds up

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A Tale of Two Bettys
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Two different crime-show takes on the Betty Broderick case

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Five Actors Whose Ted Bundy IMDb Credits Might Surprise You
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In chronological order.

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The Unknown Unknowns: Just how ambiguous is David Fincher’s Zodiac
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A conversation from Press Play about what Zodiac wants us to believe

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Jack the Ripper and the Case for Scotland Yard’s Prime Suspect
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Robert House’s excellent case for one man’s guilt resets the bar for Ripperology writing

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West of Memphis: The devil you know
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Life after death (row) for the West Memphis Three

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