One of Netflix's twistiest serial killer shows is this fascinating (though exhausting) five-part docuseries about Henry Lee Lucas, who confessed to hundreds of murders that he may or may not have ...

Six months ago, while coping with the singular affliction that is pregnancy exhaustion, I fell down a stationery rabbit hole. Given my mental state — my brain felt like a piece of styrofoam, useless ...

Dozens of serial killers have terrorized American communities over the decades, from H. H. Holmes becoming “the Beast of Chicago” in the 19th century to “the Hillside Stranglers” inciting fear across ...

Original music by Martin D. FowlerMarion Lozano and Dan Powell Engineered by Phoebe Wang When the reporter Dyan Neary attended a county commissioners’ meeting in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, she ...

In the winter of 2021, “Saturday Night Live” spoofed the true-crime industrial complex with a musical number called “Murder Show.” The sketch sends up the consumption of spectacular depravity as an ...

Growing up on Washington state’s Mercer Island in the 1960s and ’70s, the writer Caroline Fraser got used to hearing people puzzle over why the Pacific Northwest was such a hotbed of infamous serial ...

True crime fans will have much to savor in a new show coming to Oxygen. Hunting and killing under the radar, perhaps, helped these men remain uncaptured for so long, and some of the body counts remain ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Adnan Syed, whose case amassed a worldwide following of “Serial” podcast listeners, will remain free — even though his murder conviction still stands, a Baltimore judge ruled on ...

A Baltimore judge ruled Thursday that Adnan Syed, who was featured in the "Serial" podcast more than a decade ago, does not have to return to prison and will remain on five years of supervised release ...

In August, 2024, National Geographic and The New Yorker Studios released “Killer Lies,” a TV docuseries adapted from this article. To enjoy more reporting, news, and other writing from the magazine, ...

A fierce debate rages in the literary world, dividing authors into two distinct camps: plotters who meticulously outline every story beat, and “pantsers” or “discovery writers” who write by the seat ...