true crime

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3/7/2022
  

  The Conservative and the Murderer

  Sarah Weinman's book on the friendship between William F. Buckley and convicted murderer Edgar Smith reveals uncomfortable truths about the balance of principle and self-interest in modern conservatism and the persistent tolerance of violence against women. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/8/2021
  

  The Shocking Saga of the Murdaughs of South Carolina

  "People with power and money in such tribal regions can retain their hold on their ways — and their communities — for a long time. But corruption never strays far from the prideful and the powerful, especially among those who inherit privilege."

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• SOURCE: Vox
  7/23/2021
  

  Revisiting the 1976 Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping

  The ordeal of 26 children and their school bus driver in California's San Joaquin Valley highlighted the conflicts between rural California and the state's urban centers, class conflict, and the rising fear of crime in 1976. 

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• SOURCE: Ars Technica
  3/23/2021
  

  Stabbing, Crucifixion, Eaten by Eels: Learn all about Murder the Roman Way

  Historian Emma Souther's new book is a mix of the true crime genre and a history of crime and punishment in ancient Rome. 

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• 9/27/2020
  

  Was Charles Lindbergh a Man Who Got Away?

  by Lise Pearlman

  A new book reexamines the possible role of Charles Lindbergh himself in the 1932 kidnapping of his son, once the "crime of the century."