True crime podcast and documentary reviews, interrogation analysis, and concise guides to the cases and stories worth your time.
Matt Orchard’s 58-minute documentary on the 1957 Maria Ridulph abduction — the 2012 conviction of Jack McCullough, and the phone records that undid it. Our review.
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The Why Files’ 22-minute Circleville Letters episode: over 1,000 anonymous threats sent over nearly two decades, a suspicious death, and a conviction that answered nothing. Our review.
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Biographics’ 18-minute Ted Bundy biography traces the charming law student’s path from the 1974 Pacific Northwest disappearances through two prison escapes to the electric chair in 1989. Our review.
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Truly Criminal’s 51-minute documentary on the 2016 murder of Karina Vetrano — the random Queens park attack, the six-month hunt, and the DNA evidence that convicted Chanel Lewis.
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LordanARTS’ 35-minute BrainScratch episode examines the 2017 death of Polish tourist Magdalena Zuk in Egypt — weighing the official suicide ruling against the family’s foul-play suspicions. Our review.
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Lazy Masquerade’s 35-minute mystery compilation covers three unsettling cases — the unsolved 2004 torture-murder of handyman Al Kite, Todd Geib’s baffling 2005 death, and the 1981 Ursula Herrmann kidnapping. Our review.
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