It’s a true crime documentarian’s dream to crack a cold case, but filmmaker Rachel Mason didn’t just solve the more than 35-year-old murder of a gay porn star; she also convinced the killer to confess on camera. And it all started with an old article in _The Advocate_.

While making her first documentary, _Circus of Books_ — about her parents’ adult bookstore that became the epicenter of gay…

_The Jinx_ may have rocked the true crime world when Robert Durst infamously said he “killed them all, of course” while wearing a live microphone, but a new documentary about a murder dubbed the “gay Black Dahlia" is set to take the world by storm after helping to catch a killer with an on-camera confession.

Filmmaker Rachel Mason — who first made 2020’s _Circus of Books_ about her parents’…