• ‘Murder on Middle Beach’ director uncovers his family’s dark legacies in doc

    ‘Murder on Middle Beach’ director uncovers his family’s dark legacies in doc

    "When I called, she said, ‘Mom’s dead.’ She was crying. She said, ‘Someone killed her.’ ”
  • Chilling ‘American Murder’ trailer: Why Chris Watts killed his family

    Chilling ‘American Murder’ trailer: Why Chris Watts killed his family

    Netflix is going behind the gruesome headlines. The hair-raising trailer for a new true-crime documentary dropped Wednesday, and the streaming giant is digging into the sick tale of Chris Watts, the Colorado dad who was convicted of killing his wife, Shanann, and their two young daughters. “American Murder: The Family Next Door” premieres on the …
  • Author Shanna Hogan, 38, dies after drowning in pool in front of son

    Author Shanna Hogan, 38, dies after drowning in pool in front of son

    Best-selling true crime author Shanna Hogan has died as the result of a brain injury following an Aug. 27 pool accident at her home in Phoenix, Ariz. She was 38. Hogan was swimming with her 15-month-old son Zander when she lost her footing and hit her head, according to her obituary. Hogan’s husband of nearly …
  • ‘CSI: NY’ alum Hill Harper chasing true crime in ‘How It Really Happened’ 

    ‘CSI: NY’ alum Hill Harper chasing true crime in ‘How It Really Happened’ 

    Hill Harper says his nine-year run playing Dr. Sheldon Hawkes on “CSI: New York” inspired his top-rated crime/investigation series on HLN. “For me, it all came out of that [role], of seeing people have a real interest in learning about forensics and everything that goes into an investigation,” Harper, 54, says of “How It Really …
  • New Charles Manson docuseries recounts horrific murder spree

    New Charles Manson docuseries recounts horrific murder spree

    Leslie Chilcott’s docuseries, “Helter Skelter: An American Myth,” adds some new wrinkles to the exhaustively chronicled story of Charles Manson, his “family” of followers and the horror they unleashed on LA in August of 1969. And that’s saying a lot, since you’d think, by now, that we know everything there is to know about the …
  • Why ‘Outcry’s Gaebri Anderson stuck by Greg Kelley after sex crime accusations

    Why ‘Outcry’s Gaebri Anderson stuck by Greg Kelley after sex crime accusations

    Greg and Gaebri Kelley were like a “Friday Night Lights” storyline come to life. The pair started dating after they graduated middle school outside of Austin, Texas, where he was a budding football superstar and she was captain of the dance team. “Back then I was attracted to how passionate he was about sports,” 24-year-old …
  • ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ revival adds a new twist

    ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ revival adds a new twist

    “Unsolved Mysteries” returns July 1 on Netflix with a slate of new episodes. The classic series, most memorably hosted by Robert Stack, aired (in different iterations) from 1987-2010 on NBC, CBS, Lifetime and Spike, using reenactments and interviews to document cold cases involving true crime and the paranormal. The new “Unsolved Mysteries,” brought to life …
  • How Patton Oswalt helped turn his late wife’s book into a true crime series

    How Patton Oswalt helped turn his late wife’s book into a true crime series

    “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” is both an examination of the Golden State Killer case and comedian Patton Oswalt’s eulogy to his wife, Michelle McNamara, who wrote the true-crime bestseller upon which the HBO docuseries is based. McNamara died suddenly in 2016 at the age of 46 from a combination of an undiagnosed heart …
  • ‘I’ll Be Gone in the Dark’ director on ‘pioneer’ Michelle McNamara

    ‘I’ll Be Gone in the Dark’ director on ‘pioneer’ Michelle McNamara

    “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” director Liz Garbus says producers felt a great deal of responsibility when turning the late author Michelle McNamara’s book into a docuseries. “True crime has become such an explosive industry and one of the things we wanted people to understand was how seminal her work was,” Garbus explained during …
  • ‘Killer Inside’ director: Aaron Hernandez lived ‘a double life’

    ‘Killer Inside’ director: Aaron Hernandez lived ‘a double life’

    The story of Aaron Hernandez, the New England Patriots star turned convicted murderer, always comes down to why. Why would Hernandez kill his friend Odin Lloyd, when he was on top of the world after signing a $40 million contract extension with the Patriots? By what means did he avoid accountability for violent outbursts dating …