A street in Whitechapel: the last crime of Jack the Ripper, from "Le Petit Parisien," 1891. Jack the Ripper is the subject of one of the top true crime books of all time. True crime can run the gamut ...

If you're the type to cope with daily anxieties and stress by burying your head in a pile of riveting true crime stories—the devil you know, as they say—then do we have just the reading list for you.

We may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a link in this article. Starting with Truman Capote’s “nonfiction novel” In Cold Blood in 1966, that fascination birthed a genre: ...

True crime podcasts, documentaries, and books aren’t difficult to come across—in fact, quite the opposite. There’s so much content that touches on the genre these days that it’s difficult to know ...

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