Contributors

: Marquaysa Battle is a student and journalist at NYU, who spends free time live Tweeting her favorite TV shows and handing out hearts on Instagram.
Most likely to be locked up for: Cyberstalking Beyonce.

: Abbey DiDonato is a graduate student at NYU who is guilty of telling friends she has too much work so she can binge watch SVU in her bed, uninterrupted.
Most likely to be locked up for: “Forgetting” to take off a diamond necklace before walking out of Bergdorf’s.

: Taylor Friedman is an aspiring magazine journalist who loves bagels and the heart eye emoji.
Crime TV alter ego: Jessica Jones, but she’s too much of a scaredy cat/nervous wreck to fight off a mind controller.

: Sonja Hansen is a writer and NYU grad student who spent the last five years abroad…running from the law?
Most likely to be locked up for: Her killer RBF.

: Zac Howard is a Floridian who listens to Nas while he reads George Eliot on the 5 train from Harlem to the East Village.
Crime TV alter ego: Paulie from The Sopranos because his friends can’t believe how lame his jokes are.

: Stephanie Kossman is a hiker and nature-lover who somehow ended up as a writer in New York City.
Obsessively followed: Steven Avery’s Case and the Making a Murderer series.

: Meryl Kramer is creative and sentimental with a soft spot for BBC detective shows.
Obsessively watches: Luther.

: Maggie Maloney is a native New Yorker who finds it ironic that she’s writing for a crime publication because Law & Order SVU gives her nightmares.
Most likely to be locked up for: Orchestrating an Ocean’s Eleven-style crime, especially with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and George Clooney.

: Sarah Bracy Penn is a New York-based student and writer who doesn’t understand why people don’t say “y’all” here.
Crime TV alter ego: Olivia Pope because #outfitgoals.

: Tamara Rahoumi is a Jersey-born, New York-based student and writer who is still coming to terms with the fact that her life in the city just isn’t going to be like Gossip Girl. It just isn’t.
Obsessively followed: The Casey Anthony case and its Lifetime movie adaptation. (Rob Lowe, guys.)

: Nicholas Rees is an aspiring entertainment journalist who binge watches Bravo reality shows and obsessively photographs his Sunday brunch.
Most likely to get locked up for: Stealing my neighbor’s cable.

: Jenna Reyes is a Brooklyn-born homebody who would rather binge watch TV on the couch with her bulldog for hours than be a person.
Crime TV Alter Ego: Sarah Paulson’s Marcia Clark because she rocks bad hair like a badass.

: Alexis Gelber teaches The Editor’s Vision graduate seminar at NYU and raised her kids on Twin Peaks and The Sopranos. Kudos to her partners in crime for their creativity and hard work on The Chalk.
Obsessively watches: The Wire.

: David Noonan is a journalist and novelist who still mourns the death of Fredo Corleone 44 years after the release of The Godfather, the greatest crime movie of all time.
Most likely to be locked up for: Stealing a 1959 Chevy El Camino.

Photos by Abbey DiDonato