December 19, Crime + Investigation

We need to talk about Kevin…McCallister. The star of Home Alone, or as I like to think of it, the prequel to Mindhunter, since Kevin is a murderer in the making.

Since 1995, Christmas cheer has become synonymous with torture and attempted murder committed by an eight-year-old in aftershave. If facing up to that spoils anyone’s Christmas memories, then that’s too bad, but the evidence is there: Kevin McCallister is a tiny child psychopath. …read more

December 2019, Crime + Investigation

It’s a good time for true crime junkies: decades-old cold cases have been solved through DNA testing, there’s hope that more will be soon and then there is the seemingly endless stream of documentaries, podcasts and active subreddits to binge on.

The downside is that it can be hard to keep up with every unsolved mystery or case update. That’s where we’ve got you covered. With a slew of new documentaries, case updates and podcasts, here’s a rundown of some of the most …read more

November 19, Crime + Investigation

On Sunday 22nd April 2018, Hollie Kerrel, a 28-year-old mother of three was brutally killed in her kitchen, by her husband, Chris. Her murder is the subject of Murdered by my Husband: The Hollie Kerrell Story. The documentary aired on 25th November, launched Crime+Investigation’s End Abuse Against Women campaign.

The campaign, which aims to educate, engage and fundraise around the issue of domestic abuse against women throughout 2020, launched on the international day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, designated by the United Nations General Assembly to raise awareness of …read more

August 19, Crime + Investigation

At first, the murder of Bianca Devins felt like the kind of story that floated around in the early days of the internet, an urban myth of AOL chat rooms and later, online dating: a woman brutally murdered by a man she met online. Although reports have since clarified that she had an offline relationship with the man who is alleged to have killed her, the heinous crime that went viral has brought a part of our online culture into focus.

Bianca Devins was a 17-year-old e-girl popular on Instagram and recent high school graduate, who lived in upstate New York. On 14th July, …read more

Crime & Investigation, February 2019

Of all the punchlines of the 1990s, Lorena Bobbitt has always been one of the sharpest, right up there alongside Lewinski’s blue dress. She is infamous in pop culture lore; she is the woman who cut off her husband John’s penis. For decades, she stayed silent on the crime (the Wikipedia page dedicated to the couple describes it as ‘the incident’) and history has had one very clear narrative: a jealous wife chopped off her husband’s penis with a kitchen knife, drove off and chucked it out of her car window. (For the men sitting reading this with their legs …read more

Crime & Investigation, March 2019

16 years after Michael Jackson left Neverland, a new documentary is taking us back there. Leaving Neverland, which focuses on the allegations of abuse from two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, aired at Sundance in January and the controversy could be heard from there. It has been rolling off in waves ever since, arriving in the UK before the actual documentary has.

A four-hour film from Dan Reed, the festival tripled the amount of security present at the screening and had counsellors on hand in the lobby thanks to the film’s graphic content. In it, Robson and …read more

March 19, Crime + Investigation

On 15th March, Mike Thalassitis, the Love Island contestant, was found dead. His suicide came within a year of another Love Island alum, Sophie Gradon, who died in June 2018. They bring the number of former reality television contestants who have died by suicide up to 38.

38 people: if this were a result of a serial killer, the number would be akin to Ted Bundy’s known victims. But we’re not talking serial killers. We’re not even talking one television programme, but people from different countries and completely different shows. The shared experience is that all those …read more

Crime & Investigation, March 2019

Dee Dee Blanchard looked like a doting mother, but she was forcing her healthy child to pretend to be ill. Dee Dee wanted her daughter to be ill, but Dee Dee was the one that was really sick. Gypsy Rose Blanchard was the loving daughter that arranged for her mother to be savagely murdered by the man she met on a Christian dating site. But was Gypsy Rose the real victim? The case is the latest to get the true crime drama treatment through The Act (based on an investigative piece by Buzzfeed) and to anyone that knows the details, it’s obvious why: …read more

Crime & Investigation, March 2019

Netflix’s latest offering in the true crime oeuvre is The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann, an eight-part documentary series that comes two months before the 12th anniversary of the child’s disappearance.

You might have heard of it before it even made it to Netflix, which it almost didn’t. It’s a series that’s been controversial from the start. Gerry and Kate McCann have refused to be a part of it. They said in a statement that they didn’t see how it could help find their daughter and it could, in …read more