One of McBain's many Matthew Hope mysteries, this one involving the murder of a documentary filmmaker-turned-porno-producer.
It's how certain parts of Mexico are portrayed in "Cause for Murder," a compelling documentary to be broadcast tonight as the latest program in the PBS series "Wide Angle".
I speak of Maria Jimena, a columnist for El Espectador, whose sister was murdered while filming a documentary, and who now gets threatening e-mails from guerrillas or vigilantes any time she writes critically about either.
Amanda Knox's book about her ordeal as a prisoner of coincidence for a murder in Italy and a documentary about five innocent teenagers framed for the Central Park rape case present a blueprint of official malpractice.
This isn't a murder documentary, but the scale and depravity of the true corporate crimes outlined in Academy Award winner Alex Gibney's Netflix series are, at times, just as haunting.
The case became widely known mostly as a result of "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills," a documentary shown on HBO in 1996.
Van Gogh's murder was apparently sparked by a documentary he made earlier this year with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born woman politician who calls herself 'an ex-Muslim'.
"Murder in Black and White," a documentary series that begins on Sunday on the TV One channel, takes four consecutive nights to examine four cases that law enforcement officials are trying to solve as memories fade and potential suspects and witnesses get older or die.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney charged Durst with Berman's murder shortly after HBO aired a documentary series, "The Jinx," about Durst.
After all, it doesn't take a high-priced criminal defense lawyer to know that it's probably not in your best interest to participate in a documentary about murders you have been accused of committing.
