The Tate-LaBianca murders — actress Sharon Tate, wife of director Roman Polanski, is the “Tate” — terrified Los Angeles, and the nation, in 1969 and effectively slammed the door shut on what we think ...

In 1999, Tom O’Neill was commissioned by Hollywood-centric film magazine Premiere to investigate exactly what had — by then — happened a mere 30 years earlier, when a small-time criminal, Charles ...

The documentarian may have been pivotal to creating the language of true crime, but he’s not immune to streaming bloat. Photo: Netflix So why bother? Well, O’Neill, an entertainment reporter whose ...

I’m one of those people — there are a lot of us — who is always up for a Charles Manson movie. There have been so many! All the documentaries and dramatizations. Not to mention the TV specials, both ...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT The true crime subgenre has become the bread and butter of the streaming documentary business, with more titles than one could possibly mention populating queues on Netflix and beyond.