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From the Book to the Screen

Explore five U.S. cases through true crime books and screen adaptations, including The Burning Bed, Small Sacrifices and The Good Nurse.

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After Netflix, Explore the Real Case

Go beyond Inventing Anna, The Good Nurse, Unbelievable and When They See Us with related books, reporting and U.S. case files.

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Explore Ann Rule’s Casebooks

Choose an Ann Rule book alongside Small Sacrifices, And Never Let Her Go or Dead by Sunset.

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Revisit the TV Movies You Remember

Find books and case files behind The Burning Bed, A Woman Scorned and In a Child’s Name.

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CASE 234Durham, North Carolina; Baltimore, Maryland; Washington, D.C.; New York

1940–1977

Pauli Murray

Pauli Murray
Pauli MurrayHistorical portrait
Photo creditFDR Presidential Library & Museum / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0. Cropped/resized. Adaptations use the same license.

Lawyer, writer and activist Pauli Murray challenged racial and sex discrimination and developed legal arguments that influenced other civil rights advocates. Murray’s life also crossed boundaries of gender, faith and professional access. The memoir and documentary restore context to a figure often left out of familiar accounts.

Books 1Audiobooks 1Movies 1Social Media 0Blogs & essays 1Family TreeFiction WorkPositive Outcome
CASE 088New York

1920s–1930s

Albert Fish

Albert Fish
Albert Fish
Photo creditUnknown photographer, 1903 mugshot / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (U.S.). Cropped/resized.

Albert Fish abducted Grace Budd after approaching her family in 1928. Years later, a letter describing her death helped investigators track him down. He was convicted of her murder; accounts of other killings include claims that were not all independently established.

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