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‘The Act’ offers up true crime at its most heart-wrenchingly exploitative

sudshr47 March 22, 2019

Warning: Spoilers for The Act lie ahead.

I’m a fan of true crime the same way some people are fans of Halo Top.

After a long day, I’ll crack open nearly any true crime account and eat up the terrifying, true-to-life details with a metaphoric spoon. Whether it’s a movie, series, or podcast, I live for moment-to-moment reconstructed investigations, retrospective interviews with emotional eyewitnesses, and the big reveal of that one mistake that gets the criminal caught. Put plainly: True crime is very much my thing.

So, you can imagine my surprise when only an hour and a half into The Act, I had an overwhelming urge to turn off the TV — and then possibly throw up. This is true crime in its most brutal and most transparently self-serving form. Read more…

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‘The Case Against Adnan Syed’ is a gripping revelation

sudshr47 March 10, 2019

After the obsessive internet sleuthing that followed Serial Season 1, the prospect of re-examining Adnan Syed’s conviction for the murder of Hae Min Lee sounded exhausting.
And yet, roughly five years later, The Case Against Adnan Syed, which p…

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Jordan Peele’s ‘Lorena’ docuseries is about way more than a severed penis

sudshr47 February 15, 2019

It’s never too late to reconsider the facts.

If you’re a true crime fan or were, y’know, alive in 1993, then chances are you’ve heard of Lorena and John Wayne Bobbitt — the infamous couple who took tabloids by storm thanks to a severed penis.

Executive producer Jordan Peele’s new four-part docuseries, Lorena, asks modern viewers to reevaluate where now Lorena Gallo and her shocking actions on “that night” reside within our collective memory and sympathy. That request is one worth granting.

The 1990s were a dramatic time for headlines, particularly within the crime realm. Nancy Kerrigan’s shattered knee, O.J. Simpson’s infamous white Bronco, and JonBenét Ramsey’s macabre glamor shots plastered tabloid covers for much of the decade and continue to darkly fascinate through modern retellings. Read more…

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Netflix’s ‘Ted Bundy Tapes’ makes you sit with the man behind the monster

sudshr47 January 24, 2019

Modern celebrity serial killer culture arguably started with Ted Bundy, a man known for his normcore good looks, charisma, and brutal rape and murder of at least thirty women in the 70s.

In the new four-part Netflix docuseries Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, true-crime aficionados get to hear excerpts from never-before-released interviews with Bundy while he was on death row.

Ted Bundy is known as the mild-mannered guy you could easily find yourself enjoying a beer with — before realizing he’s describing the location of his victims’ decapitated bodies. In the upcoming Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile film, the notorious murderer will be played by none other than Zac Effron. That’s not playing against type, either, since Effron easily fits Bundy’s persona as the nice guy with an aw schucks kind of handsomeness. Read more…

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Tense trailer for Jordan Peele’s Lorena Bobbitt docuseries promises final word on infamous assault

sudshr47 January 8, 2019

“This was a modern love story. Boy meets girl. Boys falls in love with girl. Boy marries girl. Girl cuts off boy’s penis.”
The Academy Award-winning Jordan Peele is taking on horror through a new lens, re-examining the infamous real-life tr…

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Best gifts for people obsessed with true crime

sudshr47 November 20, 2018

Everyone knows someone who’s a little bit morbid, fascinated by the terrible, weird, and often unspeakable crimes human commit, and the injustices within the legal system itself.

They’re supremely into podcasts like My Favorite Murder, Serial, Dr. Death, Dirty John, and Criminal. They’ve binge-watched docuseries like Making a Murderer, The Jinx, Evil Genius — all of them. Every time you go on holiday, they find the most notorious, possibly haunted house in town, and insist on a visit (or at least a sneaky drive-by peek).

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Netflix’s docuseries ‘Haunted’ has fans skeptical about the truth, so we investigated

sudshr47 October 31, 2018

“You call ‘em strays. They were disposable. Human life meant nothing and that’s what he tried to teach, that people—once you got what you needed from them—the best thing you could do was get rid of them. That way, it would never come back onto you.”

That’s Jacob, a middle-aged man from upstate New York, recounting a childhood consumed by terror. Jacob sits alongside his mother and aunt, Sadie and Terrilyn. A camera pans across their gaunt faces as each subject recounts the realities of living with their family patriarch—a man responsible for dozens, if not hundreds, of murders.

Jacob continues to paint a horrific, vivid portrait, detailing what it was like to be “groomed” by his serial killer grandfather. He has nightmarish anecdotes of abuse and theories on where many of these victims are buried. Jacob even has memories of destroying hundreds of grandpa’s “trophies” following his death. Read more…

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James Corden turned ‘Halloween’ into a ridiculous true crime documentary

sudshr47 October 19, 2018

You’ve gotta love a good true crime documentary, with all its real-life drama and grainy courtroom footage.
James Corden took it upon himself to give Michael Myers, the famously silent killer of the Halloween movie franchise, the true crime treat…

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15 podcasts guaranteed to tell you a fantastic story

sudshr47 September 18, 2018

What’s the magic ingredient of a really great podcast, the thing that makes people tune in time after time? It’s simple in theory: Have a really good story. But how?
There are all sorts of ways. Take Serial, the investigative journalism podcast…

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Netflix expands on the classic true-crime doc ‘The Staircase’ — your next obsession

sudshr47 May 22, 2018

Netflix is reviving the controversy around the death of Kathleen Peterson in 2001 with a new documentary series that expands on one of the first and most popular true-crime series to hit television: The Staircase.

Coming to Netflix June 8, The Staircase will take a look at the death of Kathleen, which her husband Michael claimed happened because she fell down the staircase. Michael was convicted of murdering Kathleen in 2003 despite his claim of innocence and the documentary series chronically the whole ordeal followed soon after in 2004 — and lots of legal happenings have taken place since then. Read more…

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Adnan Syed was just granted a new trial partly because of ‘Serial’

sudshr47 March 29, 2018

Adnan Syed, who was convicted of the 1999 murder of his high school sweetheart Hae Min Lee and gained national interest for being the subject of the podcast “Serial,” was granted a new trial.
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals, the state’s s…

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