48 h. ago Have you ever wondered what a last meal would taste like? Now you can get 'The Last Bites'

The Ohio Museum of Horror is set to open this month and will feature real human skulls, true-crime artifacts, 'haunted' objects, Ouija boards, and horror movie memorabilia

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3 d. ago New Mexican crime drama 'based on true events' expected to storm Netflix charts

The series is perfect for fans of the beloved 2010s series Narcos

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4 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Will we ever know the truth about ALL this serial scammer's evil lies?

As the true-crime documentary Bad Nanny unfolded, chilling parallels with another highly plausible but evil criminal emerged.

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5 d. ago 'Most gruesome case in British history' dissected in true crime documentary hitting screens this week

A serial killer who murdered three women will have his twisted case dissected in a new true crime documentary on a streaming platform this week.

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7 d. ago Fox by Joyce Carol Oates book review: Unflinchingly delivered depravity

If you consume too much true crime it starts to infect your routine. Let your dog off the leash in any lonely overgrown place and you’ll start to worry she’ll come bounding out of the undergrowth with a body part in tow. Maybe that’s my personal fear, but Joyce Carol Oates taps straight into it with the gripping, disgusting and darkly comic opening to her latest novel, Fox.

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8 d. ago Alarming baby name trend on the rise as parents unwittingly inspired by true crime are giving newborns the same monikers as famous murderers

Popular culture has a bigger influence on baby names than we might realise, but one particular genre has been unexpectedly providing new parents with inspiration.

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1 week ago An Ordinary Case review – Daniel Auteuil directs and stars in tense Ruth Rendell

A careworn husband is accused of murdering his wife in a story inspired by a real life case that dispenses with the genre’s familiar brutalityHere is a fictionalised true crime drama, but one that is more stately and sedate than the garish procedural brutality of regular true crime. There is one gruesome crime-scene photo, but otherwise this could really have been based on something by Ruth Rendell. It is co-written and directed by its star Daniel Auteuil and the original French title is Le Fil (The Thread), after an incriminating thread of material found on the corpse – or perhaps it means the thread of logic behind a legal argument, the loose thread which, if pulled sufficiently, might cause the whole thing to collapse.The action is based on a case recounted by Jean-Yves Moyart, a criminal defence lawyer, who blogged under the name “Maître Mô” and who died in 2021. Grégory Gadebois plays Nicolas Milik (“Ahmed” in Moyart’s blog), a devoted, careworn husband to his alcoholic wife Cé...

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2 w. ago Silent Witness star Emilia Fox on 'thinking about end of life' and her love of true crime

EXCLUSIVE: Silent Witness star Emilia Fox talks about parenting, perfect days and planning for the future - and explains why working on the show for 21 years has changed her views on life and death

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2 w. ago Smoke review – no TV show has ever been worth sticking with more

Taron Egerton and Jurnee Smollett hit every ball out of the park in this smart, mesmerising crime drama about arson investigators. It’s hugely entertaining – if you can make it through the shaky startI never want to include spoilers, but sometimes they cannot be avoided. So, because I want you to stick with the new miniseries by Dennis Lehane, starring Taron Egerton (the pair reuniting after their great success with 2022’s Black Bird), and enjoy the myriad benefits it will reap, I urge you to ignore any misgivings you have about the first two episodes of Smoke. Most of them will fall away. The tonal inconsistencies, the apparent self-indulgence of Lehane with his protagonist’s hobby, the dabs of bad characterisation – just keep the faith. If you can’t, then Google the true crime podcast on which Smoke is based and work out what must be happening from there. I’m not giving you the title because you’ll be ruining a lot of fun for yourself.It is not as though sticking with it will be t...

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2 w. ago Taron Egerton knew he just had to play 'fascinating' and 'disturbing' new TV role

Taron Egerton stars as an arson investigator in the new Apple TV+ series, Smoke, which is inspired by the true crime story of a serial arsonist who set fire to businesses in Southern California

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2 w. ago Poop Cruise review – a fascinating look at a toilet disaster that still haunts passengers 12 years later

In 2013, more than 4,000 people on a malfunctioning 13-storey holiday boat had to spend days defecating into bags. This catch-up with passengers makes for a fun hour of unintentional comedyWith the latest instalments of the series Trainwreck, Netflix appears to be trying to grant us some brief summer break from the worst kind of horrors the true crime genre can offer. In contrast to previous episodes, which looked at the Woodstock 99 riots and Astroworld tragedy that saw 10 people die in a crowd crush at a massive Live Nation-organised concert – including a nine-year-old child – it has suddenly pivoted in tone.Last week it gave us Mayor of Mayhem, the tale of Rob “I am not a crack addict” Ford, the crack-addicted mayor of Toronto and his very un-Canadian way of doing municipal business. In coming weeks, there will be accounts of the balloon boy’s story, a private investigation agency run by soccer moms, and “the greatest shitpost ever made”. Whether this tonal change comes as a reli...

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2 w. ago An underrated true crime thriller starring Keira Knightley is airing on TV tonight

It is based on the true story of a serial killer who murdered 13 women in the 1960s

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3 w. ago What happened to Graham Dwyer and how long was he jailed for after murdering Elaine O'Hara

A new documentary is exploring one of Ireland's most infamous murder trials

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3 w. ago Silent Witness star Emilia Fox’s ‘divisive’ true crime documentary now available online

‘Very weird watch’ wrote one perplexed viewer

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3 w. ago Holloway review – brave women go back to prison to unlock their stories

In this powerful documentary, six former inmates revisit their old cells to reflect on the childhood trauma and domestic abuse that led them to prisonYou can be told the statistics: 30% of women in prison spent time in care as children, and 70% have been the victim of domestic abuse. But what this powerful documentary from Sophie Compton and Daisy-May Hudson (the latter of whom is the director of just-released film Lollipop) does is to demonstrate the cruelty and injustice of a system that incarcerates the vulnerable.Shot in 2021, it follows six women returning to HMP Holloway in London before demolition began a year later. In the first scenes, they walk back into the prison, some into their old cells. The building is abandoned, ivy creeps up through the floorboards, but it’s still Holloway: “Fuck, I remember this smell,” says one. During a week-long workshop the women – brave and unfailingly articulate – share their stories. All of them experienced trauma in childhood, most masked ...

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3 w. ago The 14 best true crime documentaries to watch now, chosen by the Daily Mail's crime experts

The true crime obsession is here to stay - and audiences captivated by these tragic tales still can't look away.

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4 w. ago 7 chilling true crime documentaries on Netflix to binge this weekend

Netflix is home to some of the most disturbing true crime documentaries that are all the rage with fans of the genre - but these are the most chilling of them all.

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4 w. ago Modern Family star Ariel Winter, 27, talks 'scary' move of posing as a 12

The Hollywood veteran became a part of undercover operations for the nonprofit SOSA - Safe from Online Sex Abuse - for a true crime docuseries on YouTube called SOSA Undercover.

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4 w. ago Inside the chilling trial of Graham Dwyer as new true crime documentary revisits murder case

A new true crime documentary explores the chilling trial of Graham Dwyer, revisiting the infamous murder that shocked the people of Ireland

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