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 Gist: You likely know the story. In the late 1960s, Charles Manson amassed a cult of followers who he psychologically manipulated by isolating them, taking their belongings, giving them mass ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.