Ava DuVernay to Write and Direct Central Park Five Series and More True Crime News

Big true crime news from Netflix! The streaming service recently announced that Ava DuVernay is set to write and direct a new narrative series about the Central Park Five case. The series's opening episode will take place in the spring of 1989 when five teenagers of color were coerced into confessing to the rape of a Central Park jogger and will cover the events that led to their conviction and eventual exoneration in 2014. Michael K. Williams (from The Wire), Vera Farmiga (star of Bates Motel and The Conjuring) and John Leguizamo are lined up to star in the series, which unfortunately we'll have to wait until next year to watch.

Something we don't have to wait that long for is Investigation Discovery's new summer lineup. New shows include Dark Waters: Murder In The Deep, which will explore maritime crimes and Someone You Thought You Knew, which will explore murders committed by the people you'd least suspect. Fan favorites like Fatal Vows and Homicide Hunter are also returning this summer with new seasons.

If you're looking for a new summer read, check out Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer by Margalit Fox. The new true crime tome examines the case of Oscar Slater, a German Jew gambler living in Glasgow in the early 1900's. When the wealthy and elderly Marion Gilchrist was murdered in 1908, the xenophobia and antisemitism of the time made Slater the perfect culprit in the minds of Glasgow police. After his conviction, Conan Doyle, of course, best known for creating Sherlock Holmes, re-examined the evidence against him and found several holes in the Crown's case. Fox not only examines Doyle's investigation, she also explores Slater's life, the history of detective fiction and Sherlock Holmes, and theories of criminology.






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