The Best True Crime Books: The Classics, the New Releases and the Trips That Went Wrong
The best true crime books: 12 classics, the best of 2025 and 2026, serial killer reads and the books behind travel cases, with Edgar winners and ratings.
The Disappearance of Amy Bradley: Everything to Know in 2026
Amy Bradley vanished from a Royal Caribbean cruise in 1998. The night, every sighting, the four theories and what changed in 2026, including a $100,000 reward.
The Best True Crime Documentaries: The 2026 Releases and the All-Time Essentials
The best true crime documentaries: every 2026 release checked, the all-time essentials and where each case stands now, plus serial killer and courtroom picks.
The Death of Holly Bowles in Laos – Everything to Know in 2026
A 19-year-old from Beaumaris on her first big trip overseas. A free shot at a backpacker hostel. Six tourists dead from methanol — and a year later, no one truly held to account. Holly Morton-Bowles was 19 years old when she flew out of Melbourne with her best friend Bianca Jones for what her mother […]
The Lindsay Shiver Case – The Investigation, Arrest and Everything You Need to Know in 2026
By the summer of 2023, Lindsay Shiver’s life looked like a highlight reel: a former Alabama pageant queen married to an ex-Auburn football player, three young sons, a $2.5 million home in Thomasville, Georgia, and family trips to the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas. Then, in July of that year, Bahamian police investigating a break-in […]
The Murder of Sunshine Stewart – The Case, The Investigation and Everything to Know in 2026
Crawford Pond is the kind of place Mainers mean when they talk about why they live there: a quiet lake in the small midcoast town of Union, ringed by camps and a family campground, with an undeveloped island in the middle that locals treat as a swimming stop. On the evening of July 2, 2025, […]
The Oscar Pistorius Case – Everything to Know in 2026
For a few years, Oscar Pistorius was one of the most inspiring athletes on the planet. A double amputee who ran on carbon-fiber blades, he did what doctors once said was impossible: he lined up against the fastest able-bodied sprinters in the world and, at the London 2012 Olympics, became the first amputee to compete […]
The Murder of Natalee Holloway – Case, Updates and Everything to Know in 2026
For eighteen years, the question hung over one of the most famous missing-persons cases in American history: what actually happened to Natalee Holloway? She was an eighteen-year-old honor student on a graduation trip to Aruba, the kind of trip that is supposed to be the safe, celebratory bookend to high school. She walked out of […]
The Murder of Grace Millane – The Case & Updates in 2026
Grace Millane was the kind of traveler who did everything right. She was 21, careful, close to her family, and only a few weeks into the round-the-world trip she had saved for and planned for years. She had already crossed South America. New Zealand was meant to be the easy, friendly part, a country the […]
The Amanda Knox Case – Updates Everything to Know in 2026
Amanda Knox was twenty years old when she flew from Seattle to Perugia, Italy, for the kind of trip that is supposed to change your life for the better. She was a language student chasing a study-abroad dream, learning Italian in a medieval hill town, sharing a cottage with new roommates and figuring out who […]