This transfixing audio doc explores the unsettling charisma and murky morality of a notorious prison gang defector.
This independent series does something special in the true crime genre: it honors the living, just as much as the dead.
Challenging the tropes that give the genre a bad reputation, these true crime podcasts are self-reflexive, sensitive, and endlessly creative.
The New Yorker's Heidi Blake uses rigorous reporting to highlight systemic flaws in the British justice system.
In Wisecrack, comedy and true crime collide, revealing as much about the podcaster’s own blind spots as the story she tells.
In Wondery's series Liberty Lost, the shame placed on "unwed mothers" sounds like a story from decades ago. Not so.
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A deft combination of informative journalism and emotional weight is what makes Missing in the Amazon such a commanding listen.
In such an overloaded genre, there simply isn’t enough here to convince us that Sarah is worthy of our attention.
Blink is most powerful when it lets Haendel speak from the edge of death. But with four episodes to go, the series is falling into familiar patterns.
