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Because the True Crime secret got me excited. What True Crime shows do you like? Are there books you particularly like? Are there any specific cases that interest you more than others?

I highly recommend Murder Maps, which is a history of crime and crime solving in London. Great show. Also enjoying Stranger in My Home. Forensic Files can be good, though I'm usually more interested in psychology than forensics.

I love Unsolved Mysteries for the goofiness. I don't really watch any shows on mainstream media.

There have been several documentaries on netflix worth watching. The Imposter, Amanda Knox, and Making A Murderer are great.

I get most of my True Crime media through pocasts. I listen to Last Podcast on the Left, Sword and Scale, Criminal, and Thin Air.

True crime is my jam!

TV shows:

Forensic Files
Town and Country Murders
Behind Mansion Walls
Power, Privilege and Justice
Cold Case Files
FBI Files

Documentaries:

The Keepers (now on Netflix, highly recommended)
The Staircase
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (serious tearjerker, be warned)
There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane
The Imposter
West of Memphis

Books:

Starvation Heights, by Gregg Olsen
anything by Jerry Bledsoe
anything by Harold Schecter
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, by Kate Summerscale
The Invention of Murder, by Judith Flanders
Anne Perry: The Murder of the Century, by Peter Graham
Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper, by Geoffrey Gray
Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence, by Bill James
Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, by Erik Larson
Fatal Vision, by Joe McGinniss
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder, by Lawrence Schilling

I prefer historical cases to more contemporary ones, but my favorites are Hinterkaifeck, the Villisca axe murders, Lizzie Borden, that kind of thing.

I'm writing the ones of these I haven't seen/read to look them up. Great list.

I'm more interested in historical crime too. That's why I loved Murder Maps so much. It went all the way from before Jack the Ripper to post-WWII and tracked the major crimes and the development of the process of police work and crime solving. Fascinating to me.

Lizzie Borden is one case I'm really interested in. Such an interesting case. The other one I've been studying recently is John Christie (which I learned about thanks to Murder Maps, and went to do more research on it).

Then you might particularly enjoy The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, because it's not just about the murder in question but also about the role of the British police detective in its early days. The Invention of Murder was very interesting because it's an overview on true crime in the Victorian era and the cultural fascination with murder, crime and media based on crime. There's a documentary series by the same name that was also quite good.

SA as before - another good historical crime is The Maul and the Pear Tree, by P.D. James. James is better known for her fiction, but this book is about the Ratcliff Highway murders in early 1800s London, long before there was such a thing as police detectives.

Oh my God, yes, Dear Zachary.

I finally got around to watching it back in March, I think. I'm so upset about how that whole thing played out.

It was terrible... you feel so bad for the surviving family and outraged at how the ending wasn't prevented.

I watch the Investigation Discovery channel a lot. I like shows like "Disappeared", "Obsession: Dark Desires", "Web of Lies", "Deadly Women" (there's been some truly disturbing/sad cases on there), "Fear Thy Neighbor". "Evil Lives Here", to name a few. I like shows that focus on how people survive or deal with the scary encounters they've been through, or shows that explore why people do the horrible things they do. And there's something so haunting about a show like "Disappeared", where there's all this mystery and no concrete answers.

And like others here, I also like shows like "Cold Case Files" and "Forensic Files". I also watch "Dateline" and "48 Hours" sometimes.

For books, I've read In Cold Blood, The Cases that Haunt Us, and I've got a book called Dead Air that's about the disappearance of a newswoman in my town that happened twenty years ago, but I've yet to sit down and read it. That's definitely a case that's intrigued me.

I haven't really delved into the documentary/podcast side of things yet, so can't really comment on that side of things. As for specific crimes, I tend to be most interested in stories about people who target family members or significant others, just 'cause the idea of somebody you're supposed to know/trust being a threat to you is so chilling, and I'm just always curious about how the loved ones deal with the tragedy and fallout of those crimes.

And then there's killers like Dahmer and Gein-their crimes are just so exceptionally grotesque and fucked up, and while I frankly don't need or want to know the specific details of those kinds of crimes, 'cause, ick, it is interesting to explore how the hell they got so messed up to where they would commit such heinous crimes.

I love Evil Lives Here. And I'm just starting to watch Deadly Women, which I got into because it had an episode on a case that interested me in Stranger in my Home (Dorothea Puente). Obsession: Dark Desires is great too.

Ooh, yeah, the Puente case is so weird and creepy. I like "Stranger in My Home", too.

Another show I just remembered that's really good is "A Crime to Remember". They focus on some interesting older cases that I haven't heard about before.

Ooo, I've watched some episodes of A Crime To Remember. Some of them were really interesting.

I'm obsessed with Snapped, though I haven't watched in months. I can watch marathons for hours and I even like to fall asleep to it. I also follow the narrator on Twitter.

I love Dateline and 20/20 and have enjoyed some 48 Hours Investigations (most notably Perfectly Executed, detailing my current favorite murder, the Rafay family murders. It's on YouTube.) The Rafay family murders are so interesting to me because, as a story, there's so much to work with. I wish there were books about it and I'm surprised there haven't been films inspired by it. For whatever reason, the fact that they used The Lion King as an alibi is particularly interesting to me. And then of course, there's the controversy regarding the Canadian LE's decision to employ a Mr. Big sting and the legal fight to have it included in an American courtroom, where it's frowned upon/generally not allowed into trial as evidence. Oh, and I suppose the fact that Sebastian's first lawyer had to be dismissed after entering into a sexual relationship with him. That, too, is of note.

I haven't read any true crime, although I have one of Ann Rule's books (sadly not The Stranger Beside Me) and one detailing prison correspondence with Karla Homolka that are on my to-read list.

And while I haven't listened in several months, I really do enjoy the My Favorite Murder podcast.

Edited (typo) 2017-06-09 01:52 (UTC)

Okay, now you have me curious about this Rafay murder story. I don't know if I've heard about that one yet. Will have to give that a look.

(Talk of family murder cases-the Powell family case from a few years back, with the wife who went missing and her husband's murder-suicide involving their children, is one that's always haunted me. Such a tragic, horrifying story.)

I imagine the correspondence with Homolka would be quite eerie to read. And I've heard a lot of good things about Ann Rule's books, but have yet to read them.

https://www.amazon.com/Perfectly-Executed-48-Hours-Mystery/dp/141654531X

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