Hacker News with Generative AI: True Crime

True crime stories are influencing the real-life justice system (cbc.ca)
For better and worse, a rebirth in our cultural fascination with true crime — spurred, in part, by the launch of the hit podcast Serial a decade ago — has led to changes in the criminal justice system, legal experts say.
A Taping of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Saved an Innocent Man from Death Row (2017) (innocenceproject.org)
A new documentary film recounts how a Los Angeles man narrowly avoided a death sentence for a murder he did not commit when footage from a taping of the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm corroborated his alibi.
True Crime: Allan Pinkerton's Thirty Years a Detective (1884) (publicdomainreview.org)
Allan Pinkerton, Thirty Years a Detective: A Thorough and Comprehensive Exposé of Criminal Practices of All Grades and Classes (New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1884).
Everything you've been told about the 'Chickenpox bomber' is wrong (hushkit.net)
Rachel Aviv Wrote That New Yorker Story on Lucy Letby (niemanlab.org)
The Bad Trip Detective (nautil.us)
Netflix Accused of Using AI Photos in True Crime Documentary (petapixel.com)