Psychopedia maps 970 documented true-crime cases across 25 US cities, each one pinned to the address where it actually happened. Read them anywhere, listen while you walk, or let the app tap you on the shoulder when you are close.
Nothing is gated behind being somewhere. Browse the whole atlas from the couch, or take it out the door.
Pick a city, or start where you are. Every pin is a documented case at its real address, colored by kind, from the 1690s to today.
Each case is a written dossier: what happened, when, exactly where, with archival photographs and the list of sources it was built from. On narrated cases, press play and a documentary voice reads it to you, in English or Spanish.
Turn on proximity alerts and Psychopedia tells you when you walk near a documented scene. You choose the radius, the kinds of cases, quiet hours and a daily limit. The matching happens on your phone; your location never leaves it.
Every case on this map happened exactly there.
West Village, New York. 138 documented cases inside the city limits, pinned to the door.
No points, no streaks, no autoplay. The cases, where they happened, with their sources.
Six kinds of cases, each with its own color and glyph so they stay apart even if you are color-blind. Slide through eras, filter by city, zoom from the whole country to one block. The pins are the catalog: every droplet is a real case at its recorded coordinates.
Proximity alerts, entirely on your terms.
Dates, an address with a confidence level (exact, block, or area), archival photography with its license, and every source listed by name. Read the list yourself.
A documentary narrator for English, another for Spanish, the same two voices across the whole catalog. Narration is rolling out case by case, the most-visited scenes first. Put your headphones on and walk the block while it reads.
A name, a neighborhood, a drug, a year. Search reads the full text of every case in both languages, so “Little Havana” finds what happened there, not just what was titled after it.
The walking route from where you stand to the scene, with distance and time, or hand it to Maps and go.
Hide victim surnames. Reduce graphic detail. Sensitive images stay behind a deliberate tap, always, on every screen including alerts.
Bookmark a case to come back to it later. Your saved list lives on your phone, no account required.
Every case in English and in Spanish, edited for a Latin American reader rather than machine-translated. Switch the language once and the whole catalog follows: titles, dossiers, search, alerts and narration.
Send it from the app. An editor reads every suggestion and checks it against public records before anything is published.
Sometimes the address is a hallway.
Cases are pinned to where they happened: a corner, a lobby, a bar, the street you live on.
Three cities carry the deepest catalogs. The rest are the places a single famous case pulls people across the country to see.
Each one opens into a written account, its sources, and the exact spot on the map. Every case reaches you with a picture: an archival photograph where one exists, a map of the exact coordinates where it does not.
Psychopedia is in testing on iOS, with Android to follow. Download it, pick a city, and walk out the door.
