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Mandy Matney’s Murdaugh Murders and Hedley Thomas’s The Teacher’s Pet have recently seen the subjects of their investigations jailed. But why are podcasts doing the work of police, and can the legal system keep up?
A new book borrows from the slow food movement to propose a more thoughtful, less competitive form of bird-watching.
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Highlights include, soon, Benedetta Jasmine Guetta on “Cooking Alla Giudia," about the Jewish food of Italy, and Jessica Nordell on “The End of Bias, a Beginning." Events run through June; many are in person, and some are virtual, in this annual Lee and Bernard Jaffe Family festival.
A woman has come forward alleging Paul Flores confessed to the murder of Kristin Smart at party in 1996.
Kristin Smart vanished in 1996. Now, longtime suspect Paul Flores has been convicted of her murder. His father Ruben was found not guilty of being an accessory after the fact.