Sarah D. Bunting

3 weeks ago | realityblurred.com | Sarah D. Bunting

Read-Handed is our occasional feature updating you on true-crime books, listens, research etc. that we’re in the middle of right now. We hope you’ll add YOUR recent reads — whether you dug the book or DNF’d it partway through — and what you’re looking forward to, too. The shop’s current featured author is Peter Maas, author of Serpico; those books are 20% off. Crimoirs of all sorts, plus the #coplife #prisonlife tags AND books about legendary lawyers, are also 20% off.

4 weeks ago | realityblurred.com | Sarah D. Bunting

Welcome back to Pairings, a feature in which we suggest reading, viewing, or listening related to a true-crime property. Have a book, show, or podcast you’d like us to pair? Email us at editorial at bestevidence dot fyi, or call or text us at 919-75-CRIME; if you have pairing recommendations for today’s main course, we’d love to hear them in the comments.

1 month ago | realityblurred.com | Sarah D. Bunting

The crimeThe deaths of Mary Jo Kopechne, Mary Richardson Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, and Carolyn and Lauren Bessette; the gaslighting of some of these women, and of Joan Kennedy and Jacqueline Onassis; the accident that claimed Pamela Kelley’s mobility; Rosemary Kennedy’s lobotomy…for starters. The storyAsk Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed is extremely readable, and at first, I didn’t trust Maureen Callahan’s litany of misogynist Kennedy behavior for that reason.

1 month ago | realityblurred.com | Sarah D. Bunting

The crimeThe murders of James Kulstad and Micah Holsonbake; the “suspicious disappearance” of Baylee Parrent Despot. The story (which may contain spoilers)ID’s The Bakersfield 3: A Tale of Murder and Motherhood premiered last week and is streaming now on Max, and initially, I found its eminently ID-ish structure and pacing pretty frustrating.

1 month ago | realityblurred.com | Sarah D. Bunting

The crime/sVarious horrific murders committed with axes or axe-esque tools. The storyI have probably spent as much time with the James family’s writing as anyone not actually in the James family, with good reason and zero regrets, so to describe me as bouncing-in-my-seat impatient for Rachel McCarthy James’s Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder is to understate the case rather dramatically.