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Casey Anthony was acquitted in the 2008 murder of her two-year-old daughter, but the ordeal made her, as one Department of Corrections spokeswoman famously put it, “one of the most hated women in America.” This week, she joined TikTok and Substack, rebranding as a “legal advocate.” In her first TikTok, …

In Netflix’s new series Toxic Town, viewers are sent head-first into the lives of three U.K. mothers: Susan McIntyre (Jodie Whitaker), Tracey Taylor (Aimee Lou Wood), and Maggie Mahon (Claudia Jessie). The women have varied lives in Corby, Northamptonshire, but one thing connects them: All of their children, born around …

On July 2, 2021, 22-year-old Gabby Petito and her 23-year-old boyfriend Brian Laundrie set out from Long Island, New York on a two-month road trip through the country’s vast National Parks. Petito intended for the trip to launch her “van life” YouTube page, where she would share vlogs of their …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. If your idea of relaxing is sitting down and turning on a five-part docuseries about serial killers, you’re not alone. According to a YouGov survey, one in three …

S itting in a white armchair on the Sunday morning after Thanksgiving, the soft bayou light streaming into her family home, something is bugging Gypsy-Rose Blanchard. “It feels like a circus,” she tells Rolling Stone in her distinctive, high-pitched voice. All around her, there are family photos and reminders of …

I t’s a hot summer night in 1969, and for those of a certain age — young enough to turn on, tune in, drop out — Steve Paul’s the Scene is your place. As a spectator, a musician, a hanger-on. A place where the music comes first, even if you …

Lyle and Erik Menendez appeared via audio at a court hearing Monday as their two elderly aunts asked a judge to resentence the brothers for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents, José and Kitty Menendez. Los Angeles County Judge Michael Jesic heard the testimony but said it was too …

It’s only been two weeks since an announcement from the Los Angeles Country District Attorney gave supporters of Lyle and Erik Menendez fresh hope that the two, serving life sentences in prison, might finally be released. But the results of the recent election have cast a shadow on that future …

Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman who was accused of murdering her late boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe in 2022, is asking Massachusetts’ Supreme Court to dismiss her charges, the Associated Press reports. The news comes after Read’s case garnered national attention and ended with a mistrial after jurors couldn’t …

The Netflix film Woman of the Hour tells the based-on-real-events story of serial murderer Rodney Alcala — better known as “The Dating Game Killer” — who appeared on the primetime game show in 1978, in the midst of a spree of violent attacks and murders of women. Anna Kendrick directs …