The Docket

Our recommendations for crime stories featuring the Olympics and Olympians -- steroids, marathon madness, and much more.

Why is the doc industrial complex returning to Lou Pearlman yet again? And is there still a place in the modern mediascape for Unsolved Mysteries?

Eve digs into the eternal-life industrial complex with recommended pods, books, and docs on wellness scams.

What makes a solid true-crime road-trip listen? What sets it apart from an errands listen, or a bedtime listen? We've got some ideas (and we'd love to hear yours!).

Our favorite and most noteworthy true crime with "America" or "American" in the title, plus bedtime listens, aging eyes, and the formalities of mourning.

On Anna Akbari's catfish-ee crimoir, plus small stories, choices of medium, and admitting that you want revenge.

Richard Linklater's two different approaches to two different Skip Hollandsworth pieces for Texas Monthly, plus fresh eyes, small-town tales, and the "cold center" of the Coens.

It's graduation season, so we're talking about the fabulists and ID grifters who REFUSE to graduate. Is your most fascinating case on our lists?

A recent piece from Nieman Lab got us talking about transparency, reporting versus storytelling, and the formative power of COPS.

Mark Blankenship joins SDB to talk about Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society, "narrowcast" books, and childlike motivations of Victorian gangsters.