David Feige's 2016 documentary interrogates sex-offender registry statutes, but may not have questioned its own edit closely enough.

First-time guest Alex Segura joints me to talk about The Skies Belong To Us, a page-turner that made a bunch of 2013's best-of lists -- and with good reason, as each of us only needed a day to finish it. But it did leave us wanting more of some subjects, and not necessarily in a pleasing way.

Later, we go back even further in time with a New Yorker piece from 2000 on the crimes and disappearance of Frank Koehler, one that satisfies two competing readerly desires: to see someone walk away from a "perfect" crime; and to see justice done.

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Special Guest: Alex Segura.

Revenge Of Return Of Even More Dirty John Meehan, tonight on Oxygen.

Mark Blankenship on Lifetime's wrenching, but imperfect, Surviving R. Kelly: the power of the first four episodes, and the weirdness of the last two; the "tradition" of fetishizing teenage girls in rock music; the voices we heard for the first time, and the ones we still haven't heard; and whose time is up next.

Then we move on to a vintage Behind The Music that's both very typical of VH1's legendary pop-gossip video mag, and delightfully off-brand, as it follows narrator Jim Forbes out of the audio bay, on camera, and into prison for a profoundly impatient interview with the murderer of Selena Quintanilla-Perez. Terrible brothers, awful fan-club presidents, and much more in the latest episode of The Blotter Presents.

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Special Guest: Mark Blankenship.

A&E's undercover show heads to Arizona, and raises the stakes. Is it worth revisiting?

Two moms, six adopted kids, one terrible crash...and a somewhat amateurish podcast that's still compelling.

The Intercept's investigation of a wrongful conviction in Georgia is a sadly familiar story -- in more ways than one.

Will ID's event series on a notorious 1989 Ohio abduction hold your attention?

Three reads, three listens, and five watches that made my best-of list for the last year.

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Listener Scott J. tasked me with a line-up of noteworthy Unsolved Mysteries segments; I ranked all five, from ghostly hecklers to NKOTB video mysteries and everything in between.

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