If you are accused of committing a crime in America, you’ll get your day in Netflix. At least that seems to be the message coming from the surge in true crime series. But it turns out our obsession with this kind of content is nothing new. From The Guardian: True-crime stories: a centuries-old craze from Ben Franklin to Making a Murderer.

+ Want to get to the bottom of Making a Murderer? That might be a full time job. Digg has a reading list to get you started.