#true crime recs

[daddydindjarin]

i saw that you like the true crime girls on youtube and i think you’d like annie elise (10 to life) ((does great research and does a lot of overlooked cases)) and boze vs the world (talks about cases and psychology but in a lighter way)

ooooooooo! I’ll have to check them out! I love when cases are super well researched and I will literally watch a 4 hour video if I get every detail.

Thank you babes!

#lovely anon #true crime recs

[bootlegspiders]

Hey, so for Watcher fans who may not wanna pay for another subscription or just wanna watch something new here are some other youtubers you should take a look at if you want to get a spook or learn some history

(* = potentially triggering topics covered usually associated with crimes, so be careful)

Ghost Hunting and general spooky vibes:

AmysCrypt - Your typical ghost hunting show with two Australians traveling the world, though I will say they do go to places I've never heard of before and they do very good research. And there are some goofs along with the spooks.

The Ouija Brothers - Two British dudes finding ghosts in England. The vibes are generally pretty chill and it's a good time

The Paranormal Scholar - A mixed bag of all paranormal happenings from ghosts to demons to cryptids and aliens. Sort of an overview to deepdives on various paranormal occurrences. The research is immaculate and their voice is very soothing in my opinion.

Paranormal Quest - Ghost hunting in the US, sometimes goofy sometimes serious, but they do go to some interesting places and some familiar ones too

Weird History:

ObsoleteOddity* - This guy is great, like 80% of the things he covers I've never heard of before. Very atmospheric, fun little visuals, and a large variety of weird events and people for topics.

Georgia Marie* - A little bit of everything, but she focuses on strange things that have happened, lgbt history, true crime, and historical disasters. She covers enough of everything that I'm sure you'll find something

Stefanie Valentine* - I'm not sure if she even posts anymore, but I thought what she was doing was great. Think Vampira or Elvira but for older true crime and ghost stories, I think the latest covered would have been like early 1900s. Idk I just thought it was like a cute spooky lil storytime

Caitlin Doughty or Ask A Mortician* - Pretty sure y'all would know who she is but just in case, she's a mortician who covers topics relating to death! From odd ways people have died, or odd things that have happened to people after they've died. And just odd or tragic things that have happened through history. It's silly, but done with levity and care and respect the topics deserve.

General History:

Part-Time Explorer - Mostly history on ships and ghost towns with the occasional train. Lots of research and interviews, very well done and worth checking out even if it may not be your thing.

History's Forgotten People - Talks about sometimes obscure, or sometimes not, historical individuals. Even if you've heard of the person in the topic, they'll talk on something obscure about that person.

History Tea Time with Lindsay Holiday - A heavy focus on royalty around the world, a generally upbeat dive into historic individuals.

(Or you could always go watch time team, that's an option and it's my guilty pleasure love me some archeology)

True Crime:

There are so many out there, so I'll just recommend two of my favorites

Gabulosis* - She focuses on vintage cases 20 years or older (literally in her opener) and is well researched and respectful. Another one that talks on cases I've never heard of that deserve to be heard.

Mysterious WV* - True crime and missing persons based in the West Virginia area and neighboring states. Idk how to even explain the vibes. This guy is just great please watch him trust me you won't be disappointed.

That's all for now, feel free to add your own recs out there!

#or you can just go watch night mind lol #watcher #ghost files #mystery files #puppet history #too many spirits #youtube recommendations #youtube recs #ghost hunting #history #true crime #let me know if you want any more

[rockislandadultreads]

Read-Alike Friday: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.

Then, one by one, they began to be killed off. One Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, watched as her family was murdered. Her older sister was shot. Her mother was then slowly poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances.

In this last remnant of the Wild West—where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes such as Al Spencer, “the Phantom Terror,” roamed – virtually anyone who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll surpassed more than twenty-four Osage, the newly created F.B.I. took up the case, in what became one of the organization’s first major homicide investigations. But the bureau was then notoriously corrupt and initially bungled the case. Eventually the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only Native American agents in the bureau. They infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest modern techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most sinister conspiracies in American history.

Covered with Night by Nicole Eustace

The Pulitzer Prize-winning history that transforms a single event in 1722 into an unparalleled portrait of early America.

In the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois) and Anglo-American colonists, a pair of colonial fur traders brutally assaulted a Seneca hunter near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, the crime ignited a contest between Native American forms of justice―rooted in community, forgiveness, and reparations―and the colonial ideology of harsh reprisal that called for the accused killers to be executed if found guilty.

In Covered with Night, historian Nicole Eustace reconstructs the attack and its aftermath, introducing a group of unforgettable individuals―from the slain man’s resilient widow to an Indigenous diplomat known as “Captain Civility” to the scheming governor of Pennsylvania―as she narrates a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross-cultural negotiations. Taking its title from a Haudenosaunee metaphor for mourning, Covered with Night ultimately urges us to consider Indigenous approaches to grief and condolence, rupture and repair, as we seek new avenues of justice in our own era.

Return to Uluru by Mark McKenna

A killing. A hidden history. A story that goes to the heart of the nation.

When Mark McKenna set out to write a history of the centre of Australia, he had no idea what he would discover. One event in 1934 – the shooting at Uluru of Aboriginal man Yokununna by white policeman Bill McKinnon, and subsequent Commonwealth inquiry – stood out as a mirror of racial politics in the Northern Territory at the time.

But then, through speaking with the families of both killer and victim, McKenna unearthed new evidence that transformed the historical record and the meaning of the event for today. As he explains, ‘Every thread of the story connected to the present in surprising ways.’ In a sequence of powerful revelations, McKenna explores what truth-telling and reconciliation look like in practice.

Return to Uluru brings a cold case to life. It speaks directly to the Black Lives Matter movement, but is completely Australian. Recalling Chloe Hooper’s The Tall Man, it is superbly written, moving, and full of astonishing, unexpected twists. Ultimately it is a story of recognition and return, which goes to the very heart of the country. At the centre of it all is Uluru, the sacred site where paths fatefully converged.

Yellow Bird by Sierra Crane Murdoch

When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker, Kristopher "KC" Clarke, had disappeared from his reservation worksite, she became particularly concerned. No one knew where Clarke had gone, and few people were actively looking for him.

Yellow Bird traces Lissa's steps as she obsessively hunts for clues to Clarke's disappearance. She navigates two worlds - that of her own tribe, changed by its newfound wealth, and that of the non-Native oilmen, down on their luck, who have come to find work on the heels of the economic recession. Her pursuit of Clarke is also a pursuit of redemption, as Lissa atones for her own crimes and reckons with generations of trauma.

#true crime #history #nonfiction #killers of the flower moon #reading recommendations #reading recs #book recommendations #book recs #library books #tbr #tbr pile #to read #booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog #readers advisory

[steddieunderdogfics]

for challenge monday: An Act of Grace podficced by singinginmay (missberrycake)

An Act Of Grace by missberrycake

This fic has a podfic read by singinginmay!

Rating: Teen and Up

71,388 words, 8/8 chapters

Archive Warning: Creator chose not to use

Tags: Minor Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler, Minor Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper, Crime, Thriller, Murder, Mystery, Murder Mystery, 1910’s, Modern Era, Multi-Era, Period-Typical Homophobia, Historical Romance, True Crime Podcast, Podcasting, Happy Ending, POV Multiple, No Smut, Novel, steddiebang23

Summary:

On the morning after Broughton Hall’s annual summer fête, the body of a local Baron’s son was found on the grounds of the estate, as lifeless and cold as the morning was warm. Having spent the summer together, member of the household staff Edward Munson was the first to be suspected. As for the Baron’s son, perhaps there was more to him than the Baron would have society believe. Decades later, Max Mayfield comes across the murder of Steven Harrington while researching topics for the second season of her hit true crime podcast. Along with her some-time engineer and full-time ex-boyfriend, Lucas, Max uncovers a story of two people that, entwined in secrecy and truths left unspoken, reaches out across history.

Thanks for the rec!

This rec is a part of Challenge Monday. The challenge this week was Fics with Podfics.

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#steddie #steddie fic recs #steve harrington #eddie munson #steve x eddie #stranger things #steddieunderdogfics #challenge monday #podfics #rated e #murder mistery #multi era #true crime

[shu-of-the-wind]

the only true crime podcasts i think are ethical

it's a short list. as an attorney with a few years (not many) experience in criminal defense, as well as being a long-term abolitionist, i have extremely high standards when it comes to true crime podcasts and i will absolutely talk shit about a lot of the really popular, well known ones for being exploitative and disgusting. however, these are the ones that i personally value, and would recommend, despite my general revulsion of the true crime industry in general, precisely because of their ethical treatment of the topics involved. (you'll notice most of these are run/written by investigative journalists who work for or formerly worked for public radio; this is not a coincidence.)

someone knows something. this specific podcast can waver sometimes but its centering of victims and survivors over the police narrative is something i value deeply. each season is focused around an unsolved case, often with the podcasting team re-investigating the case and uncovering new leads while analyzing why the police have failed up until their coverage.

bear brook. a podcast about three murder victims, a woman and two children, who were found in barrels in a new hampshire park. absolutely incredible investigation work, and highly respectful of victims and survivors the whole way through.

missing and murdered: finding cleo. both seasons of this show are excellent. stories about mmiwg2s by connie walker, a cree journalist. the first season is about an unsolved murder; the second season is about a child missing after the sixties scoop.

accused. another investigative journalism podcast where each season is focused around an unsolved murder.

undisclosed. unfortunately this podcast is not producing new episodes anytime soon to my knowledge, but each season is an in depth examination of a wrongful conviction by three attorneys who specialize in that practice. one of those attorneys is rabia chaudry, who is intimately involved in the adnan syed case.

finally. the big one. the Forever Favorite:

in the dark is a podcast that has released such important stories that they've literally pushed a case up to the supreme court. i have never heard any true crime podcast that has been so thorough in its research; careful in its analysis; and been so respectful of survivors.

#true crime #podcasts #public radio #anyway this is just known as “alix shills for investigative journalists again” #shut up alix no one cares #alix's podcast recs

[scarstarved]

Disasters, True Crime and Oddities

A small list of a few videos that have never really left me.

Worse Than Dyatlov Pass: The Korovina Group Incident

The Most Brutal, Painless Death in History: Byford Dolphin Accident

Fast-Tracked Failure: The Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse

Japan's Mind Control Killer: The Shocking & Disturbing Story of Futoshi Matsunaga

The Strange Death of Hilkka Saarinen

The Disturbing Nevada-Tan Meme ... In Full Detail

The Most Horrific Case I've Ever Covered: Junko Furuta

The Moments Before a Disappearance

Why Did So Many Lighthouse Keepers "Go Mad"?

The Darkest Lost Media [Vol. 1]

No Through Road: Explained

Cicada 3301: An Internet Mystery

The Gutter of YouTube

If you prefer a playlist, you can find it here.

#video #i'll make a pt 2 if more people are interested #feel free to add on #i'd love to see what's stuck with you too #video essay #video essays #video rec #video recs #misc #dyatlov pass #true crime #lost media #youtube #⏯

[promithiae]

Started listening to maintenance phase (finally), 1000% recommend. I don't know what this genre of podcast is called (specifically the debunking junk science, especially when in regards to the wellness industry) but it's one of my favorites. If anyone has any more recommendations I'd love to hear them. I listen to oh no Ross and Carrie, Sawbones, and the dream (super excited about the season 3 announcement this week!) as well.

#it also ties into my only 'true crime' sub genre of fraudster podcasts #if you have any recs for fraud podcasts #I'll eat that shit up too #(i listen to fraudsers and scamfluencers)

[lizpaige]

vexed to nightmare (a true crime podcast AU) 🔍✨

Chapter One

Work Summary: On the morning of November 4, 2013, forty-three year old Niall Lynch was found lying face down in his driveway, beaten to death with a tire iron. When police arrived at the scene, they found his middle son, Ronan Lynch, standing over his father’s body, covered in blood.

#true crime podcast au #ronan lynch #adam parrish #niall lynch #pynch #pynch fic rec #pynch fic

[theunstuffedpepper]

For @bobin08 who asked for some of my favorite true crime podcasts.. I’m all too happy to put a list together. Lemme know which ones you like so I can check them out!

I love Ashley Flowers & most of the audiochuck podcasts.. the first few on each list are from her and her team.

Short format - 1 case per episode

Crime Junkie

The Deck

Park Predators

Killed

Dateline NBC

20/20

Murder with my Husband

Last Seen Alive

Long format - each season dedicated to 1 case

The Deck Investigates

CounterClock

Strangeland

Red Ball

The Sneak

Unraveled

Crimetown

Down the Hill: the Delphi Murders

Murder on the Island: The Lindsay Buziak Story

Liar Liar: Melissa Caddick and the Missing Millions

Dateline: the Girl in the Blue Mustang

#true crime #podcasts #audiochuck #podcast recs #08082023

[darklyscanning]

devil house (john darnielle, 2022)

this book peeled me open. right off the bat, i want to say that i recommend this to anyone interested in analysing stories, subjects, and the ethical complications of true crime / biography / documentary / docudrama. it's a major interest of mine: whose story gets told, and how, and why, and what that says about the teller. but, if you couldn't care less about any of that, then this may not be the book for you.

i do have a small gripe with the bookstore i bought this in: this book was in the 'horror' section. that is certainly not the genre in which it should be situated, although i can see why someone might place it there. it's a fictional work about the real questions true crime writers have to reckon with, and there are certainly horrifying scenes, but it is far more sad than scary.

it's a fairly quick read, but i won't call it 'easy' - it asks quite a lot of its reader, from shifting characters and viewpoints, to shifting fonts. if you're at all familiar with john darnielle's other work (most famously, the mountain goats), you will recognise many things that he is fascinated by (locations, stories, times), and you will also recognise his love of obscure and lost things. hopefully, you acknowledge this with fondness or with a similar enthusiasm to darnielle himself; otherwise, you probably will not enjoy this book.

character, subject, reader, and writer - these categories are slippery in devil house, and so is time. in some moments, i found it difficult to determine who 'you' was referring to; who was telling the story? who was being addressed? and further, as the protagonist (or, the closest to a protagonist we are able to grasp) reconstructs the past and delves into his own, we are made aware of the blurred boundaries between memory and the stories we tell to fill in the gaps. this can be disorienting, but that's the point: the book is reflecting on the complicated nature of storytelling itself.

i love this book. i love its weird detour to medieval england, in order to make a point about castles and kings and defending your home. i love its characters-within-characters, its stories-within-stories. the fact that darnielle succeeds in making equally fictional characters feel more real than others is a feat in itself. well-written, though with a few difficult moments; somehow circular, but in a meaningful way. i feel the need to reread it already. personally, i think it's genius, but i know other people won't feel the same way. an acquired taste.

writing 8/10 • thinking 9/10 • loving 9/10

#bookblr #book review #devil house #john darnielle #rec #true crime #(not really)

[cav-core]

Fake Crime novels

I would really recommend people who get a kick out of true crime content but don't feel comfortable with the ethics of consuming real people's tragedies that way (me, I'm people) get into the genre I've personally dubbed Fake Crime.

This is a specific subset of thriller/crime/mystery/sometimes horror novels that hit the same kind of content, the same kind of beats, same "tropes" and often narrative voice as a lot of popular true crime content, but the events and people involved are entirely fictional. It's the same thrill to it, but without feeling like you're getting your kicks off someone else's pain.

Often these novels will address an in-universe true crime community, too, usually critically, which can be pretty meta-fun.

Examples of this genre I've personally decided exists that I've read and enjoyed include:

The Whisper Man, Alex North

What Lies in the Woods, Kate Alice Marshall

Penance, Eliza Clark

Brutes, Dizz Tate

Dark Places, Gillian Flynn

(ofc check trigger warnings for all of these)

#book recommendations #book recs #true crime #tcc critical #true crime critical

[moldspace]

anyone have short (<40 mins) nonfiction podcast recommendations? been enjoying having something to listen to while i work but the PBS eons podcast only has so many episodes 😔

#no true crime recs btw ❤️ i will not listen to that

[minecraftdog]

More podcasts 😊

Help I've texted my boss: again very funny, answering agony aunt type questions

Off Menu: no idea if you know them but comedians James Acaster and Ed Gamble interview people about their Dream 3 course meal

Shagged Married Annoyed: Rosie and Chris Ramsay talk about their life. Again funny podcast Chris is a famous British comedian

Scamfluencers: I really loved true crime podcasts but recently with the discourse about them I no longer feel comfortable listening but this gives the true crime fix but with financial crime instead of murder

Normal Gossip: it's just pointless gossip about people you'll never know and never meet. Just stories from complete strangers

Celebrity Memoir Book club: what it says on the tin, they discuss Celebrity Memoirs so you don't have to read them

I have other podcasts but don't think they're the vibe you're looking for but if you ever want more recommendations I have some more niche ones or horror ones etc.

thank you thank you thank you!!! <3333

#not a fan of horror or true crime 😅 never was #you are the best tho #doggie answers #recs

[crimesandcuriosities]

Current read, 10/10 would recommend 📖💭

#psychology #psychopathy #psychopaths #true crime #serial killers #book review #please always send book recs I am here for it x

[cedobols]

have you ever tried true detective season 1? If you like mindhunter you might like it!

i actually just finished it like two days ago. thats what inspired me to rewatch mindhunter. it was AMAZING i fucking LOVED it... definitely one of my favourite seasons of tv ever now

#ask #thanks for the rec anon. anyone who enjoys a good crime mystery #or if you love mindhunter #please watch true detective season1 #theres even some old man yaoi sprinkled in there

[rockislandadultreads]

Nonfiction Thursday: True Crime Picks

Behold the Monster by Jillian Lauren

He was sitting right across the table...and he would have killed her if he could. Jillian Lauren had no idea what she was getting into when she wrote her first letter to prolific serial killer Samuel Little. All she knew was her research had led her to believe he was guilty of many more murders than the three for which he had been convicted. While the two exchanged dozens of letters and embarked on hundreds of hours of interviews, Lauren gained the trust of a monster. After maintaining his innocence for decades, Little confessed to the murders of ninety-three women, often drawing his victims in haunting detail as he spoke. How could one man evade justice, manipulating the system for more than four decades? As the FBI, the DOJ, the LAPD, and countless law enforcement officials across the country worked to connect their cold cases with the confessions, Lauren's coverage of the investigations and obsession with Little's victims only escalated.

Lauren delivers the harrowing report of her unusual relationship with a psychopath - but this is more than a deep dive into the actions of Samuel Little. Lauren's riveting and emotional accounts reveal the women who were lost to cold files, giving Little's victims a chance to have their stories heard for the first time.

Fear is Just a Word by Azam Ahmed

Fear Is Just a Word begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the United States, as fifty-six-year-old Miriam Rodríguez stalks one of the men she believes was involved in the murder of her daughter Karen. He is her target number eleven, a member of the drug cartel that has terrorized and controlled what was once Miriam’s quiet hometown of San Fernando, Mexico, almost one hundred miles from the U.S. border. Having dyed her hair red as a disguise, Miriam watches, waits, and then orchestrates the arrest of this man, exacting her own version of justice.

Woven into this deeply researched, moving account is the story of how cartels built their power in Mexico, escalated the use of violence, and kidnapped and murdered tens of thousands. Karen was just one of the many people who disappeared, and Miriam, a brilliant, strategic, and fearless woman, begged for help from the authorities and paid ransom money she could not afford in hopes of saving her daughter. When that failed, she decided that “fear is just a word,” and began a crusade to track down Karen’s killers and to help other victimized families in their search for justice.

Tangled Vines by John Glatt

Among the lush, tree-lined waterways of South Carolina low country, the Murdaugh name means power. A century-old, multimillion-dollar law practice has catapulted the family into incredible wealth and local celebrity―but it was an unimaginable tragedy that would thrust them into the national spotlight. On June 7th, 2021, prominent attorney Alex Murdaugh discovered the bodies of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, on the grounds of their thousand-acre hunting lodge. The mystery deepened only months later when Alex himself was discovered shot in the head on a local roadside.

But as authorities scrambled for clues and the community reeled from the loss and media attention, dark secrets about this Southern legal dynasty came to light. The Murdaughs, it turned out, were feared as much as they were loved. And they wouldn’t hesitate to wield their influence to protect one of their own; two years before he was killed, a highly intoxicated Paul Murdaugh was at the helm of a boat when it crashed and killed a teenage girl, and his light treatment by police led to speculation that privilege had come into play. As bombshells of financial fraud were revealed and more suspicious deaths were linked to the Murdaughs, a new portrait of Alex Murdaugh emerged - a desperate man on the brink of ruin who would do anything, even plan his own death, to save his family’s reputation.

The Angel Makers by Patti McCracken

The horror occurred in a rustic farming enclave in modern-day Hungary. To look at the unlikely lineup of murderesses - village wives, mothers, and daughters - was to come to the shocking realization that this could have happened anywhere, and to anyone. At the center of it all was a sharp-minded village midwife, a "smiling Buddha" known as Auntie Suzy, who distilled arsenic from flypaper and distributed it to the women of Nagyrév. "Why are you bothering with him?" Auntie Suzy would ask, as she produced an arsenic-filled vial from her apron pocket. In the beginning, a great many used the deadly solution to finally be free of cruel and abusive spouses.

But as the number of dead bodies grew without consequence, the killers grew bolder. With each vial of poison emptied, a new reason surfaced to drain yet another. Some women disposed of sickly relatives. Some used arsenic as "inheritance powder" to secure land and houses. For more than fifteen years, the unlikely murderers aided death unfettered and tended to it as if it were simply another chore - spooning doses of arsenic into soup and wine, stirring it into coffee and brandy. By the time their crimes were discovered, hundreds were feared dead.

Anonymous notes brought the crimes to light in 1929. As a skillful prosecutor hungry for justice ran the investigation, newsmen from around the world - including the New York Times - poured in to cover the dramatic events as they unfolded.

#true crime #nonfiction #reading recommendations #reading recs #book recommendations #book recs #library books #tbr #tbr pile #to read #booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog #readers advisory