The Crime Factory

Because every story deserves to be told

A teenager stands with his back to the camera in a foggy, moonlit forest, wearing a light gray hoodie and jeans, holding a flashlight that casts a narrow beam into the surrounding darkness
Yellow crime-scene tape reading “Do Not Cross” stretched diagonally
  • Grit and Grace: Down to the Bone’s Unflinching Look at Addiction

    By Jordan Ellis, Guest Writer Drug addiction on screen often veers into the spectacular – hallucinatory sequences, convulsive withdrawals, baroque visual flourishes. We remember Rent’s nightmare baby in Trainspotting, the frantic motel escape in Drugstore Cowboy, or the gruesome spirals…

  • U.S. Crime News Digest: May 5–12, 2025

    Surge in Mass Shootings Nationwide The United States witnessed a disturbing series of mass shootings during this period: Kalispell, MT (May 11): A man fatally…