Lafferty was a regular highway patrol agent until one day, a strange encounter in a parking lot led him to fanatically investigate a man named George Russell Tucker — a man he believed was the ...

As the true crime industry has exploded over the last decade, there’s a few things you can count on in almost every cold case docuseries. At some point, you’ll see B-roll of small-town America, with a ...

Premiering at Sundance, director Charlie Shackleton salvages an unproduced project with a humbled, humorous video essay that's only limited by the tropes it's lampooning. It’s worth mourning the ...

Director Charlie Shackleton's meta project about the notorious serial killer challenges, with wry humor, our entire approach to true crime.

"Zodiac Killer Project," the fascinating feature documentary from director Charlie Shackleton, is nothing like what it sounds. For one thing, it's not really about the infamous Zodiac Killer -- though ...

In his clever nonfiction exposé, Zodiac Killer Project, British critic-turned-filmmaker Charlie Shackleton gets at the heart of what makes these docs so successful on both a psychological and ...

Sundance: Some artists are too interesting to sell out, as British filmmaker Charlie Shackleton discovered for himself when his formulaic Zodiac killer doc went off the rails. It’s a rhetorical ...

None of us talk about the inherent predatory nature of true crime documentaries. They pick over the bones of cold cases and unspeakable crimes, retraumatize survivors, dramatize crimes to the ...

Filmmaker Charlie Shackleton faced that grief when his thoroughly researched project, a documentary on the Zodiac killer case, got the plug pulled after years in development. But the director’s ...

Director Charlie Shackleton thought he could have his cake and eat it too. For years Shackleton had been considering the idea of making a documentary centered on the Zodiac Killer. The mysterious ...