Cloudy with a Chance of Murder

If you're looking for the perfect Christmas gift for the true crime fan in your life, Ranker wants to help. Charles Manson socks and earrings, serial killer playing cards, and A Year of True Crime calendar are just a few of the gift ideas they came up with, so you're sure to find something any true crime buff will love. These are some killer gift ideas. ; ) 16 Holiday Gift Ideas For The True Crime Lover

I really enjoyed watching Robert Stack talk about unsolved crimes back in the '90s, so I was pretty excited when Vudu added the show to their free offerings. Right now you can watch eight seasons of Unsolved Mysteries for free, so if you'd like to indulge in some true crime nostalgia, Vudu has you covered. : ) Vudu: Unsolved Mysteries Season 1

Bill Cosby has been in the news lately (and also in jail), and the latest episode of Saturday Night Live  did a great sketch about Cosby's life behind bars. The sketch stars Kenan Thompson and Seth Meyers, and you can check it out here: Saturday Night Live: Jail Cellmate

If you're a true crime buff who lives in or visits Los Angeles, you might be interested in taking a Dearly Departed Tour! They offer many tours for those of us who are drawn to the dark side of human nature, including the Helter Skelter tour, the Tragical History tour, and the upcoming Horrific Homicide True Crime and Through the Valley of Death tours. You can also check out the Dearly Departed Museum (located at 5901 Santa Monica Blvd.) and see all the celebrity death memorabilia your heart desires. You can find out more information or book a tour here: Dearly Departed Tours

If you're a true crime buff, there's no shortage of Netflix content to keep you entertained, and they recently added an interesting show called I Am a Killer . In each episode, we meet a death row inmate and hear his side of the story. More than 8,000 people have been sentenced to death in America since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, and we meet ten of these people in  I Am a Killer : James Robertson, Kenneth Foster, Justin Dickens, Miguel Angel Martinez, Charles Thompson, David Lewis, Deandra Buchanan, Robert Shafer, Joshua Nelson, and Wayne Doty. We don't often get to hear from the killers on these types of shows, so it's fascinating to hear these men tell their stories. I've only watched the first four episodes so far, but what struck me was how normal some of these men seem. I was expecting them to come off as truly evil, but in most of the episodes I've seen, the inmates appear to be regular people who feel genuinely remorseful about what they...

A new show called Pink Collar Crimes  recently premiered on CBS, and it tells true stories of women who have committed crimes. The first episode, "Minivan Mom Bank Robber," focused on Roxanne Pennock, a San Diego mother of five who robbed four banks in 2009. Roxanne's family was having financial trouble due to her addiction to pain pills, and Roxanne, who was working in accounts receivable at the time, falsified numbers in order to earn commissions. When she began to suspect that her boss was onto her, she confessed and was fired, and she was told that the company would press charges if she didn't pay the money back. Out of desperation, Roxanne soon began robbing banks. Pink Collar Crimes isn't the typical true crime show, and I found it much more enjoyable than most of the true crimes shows I've watched (all the brutal murders can get a little depressing, so watching a true crime show with no murder whatsoever was a nice change). As someone who is intereste...

Netflix recently added a travel show called Dark Tourist , and in episode 3, host David Farrier travels to Milwaukee to find out about their Jeffrey Dahmer-centric tourism industry. He takes the Cream City Cannibal tour offered by Hangman Tours, which offers morbidly curious customers a chance to see where Dahmer found seven of his victims. The episode was fascinating, so I wanted to share it here in case any of my fellow true crime aficionados are interested in watching it: Dark Tourist: United States Also, if you're planning on visiting Milwaukee any time soon, you can book the Cream City Cannibal Tour here: Hangman Tours From what I saw on Dark Tourist , this tour looks really informative and interesting, so check it out if you're into that sort of thing...and if you're reading this blog, I'm guessing you are. ; )