The Amanda Knox circus—again
Amanda Knox, even while appearing on prime time television in America to promote her book Waiting to Be Heard, is facing yet another murder trial in Italy for a crime—of… Read more »
Edward Jay Epstein
Edward Jay Epstein's book The Annals of Unsolved Crime is available now from Melville House.
The skeleton in the Papal closet
On June 5, 2012, financial police in Piacenza, Italy searched the home of Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, who was the target of a money laundering investigation. Up until just a few… Read more »
A decapitation plot? The Lincoln briefing
Today is the 148th anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln. As all the world knows by now, he was assassinated by the actor John Wilkes Booth, who was then… Read more »
The bizarre pursuit of Amanda Knox: injustice Italian style
On March 25, 2013, the Court of Cassation, Italy’s highest court of appeal, overturned the acquittal of Amanda Knox. The comely Knox was a 20-year-old American exchange student in Perugia… Read more »
The Death of Boris Berezovsky
On Saturday, Boris Berezovsky, the once powerful Russian oligarch who helped bring Vladimir Putin to power, was found dead in his home in Ascot, England, an as yet “unexplained death,”… Read more »
The perils of confirmation bias
In writing my new book The Annals of Unsolved Crime, I learned that even the most well-intentioned investigations are vulnerable to what social scientists call “confirmation bias.” This phenomenon helps… Read more »
The DSK Affair: One Year Later, a Shakespearean tragedy
Edward Jay Epstein made headlines two weeks ago with a big interview with Dominique Strauss-Kahn, drawn from his ebook original Three Days in May: Sex, Surveillance, and DSK, just out… Read more »
DSK book excerpt: “A Time-stamped Inquiry”
Edward Jay Epstein made headlines Friday with a big interview with Dominique Strauss-Kahn, drawn from his ebook original Three Days in May: Sex, Surveillance, and DSK, just out from Melville… Read more »
Edward Jay Epstein: What I Still Don’t Know About DSK
I have spent the last 10 months investigating the incident of May 14, 2011 involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn, which has resulted in Three Days In May: Sex, Surveillance, and DSK. I… Read more »
THE HOLLYWOOD ECONOMIST: Hollywood, SOPA, and the Pirates of the Internet
A “2.0 edition” of Edward Jay Epstein’s The Hollywood Economist releases on January 24th. Below Epstein discusses why Hollywood is so intent on passing something like SOPA legislation. * * *… 2 / Read more »