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TrueCrime.News Case Archive MCP Server

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TrueCrime.News Case Archive is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 7 tools.

True crime cases, timelines, sources, news and related documentaries, podcasts and books.

Uptime history 21 hours of history
21 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
75 of 75 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
188 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check TrueCrime.News Case Archive every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add case-archive --transport http https://truecrime.news/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://truecrime.news/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.case-archive]
url = "https://truecrime.news/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "case-archive": {
      "url": "https://truecrime.news/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "case-archive": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://truecrime.news/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

case
get_case
Get one published case as markdown with its timeline, sources, verdict and provenance.
cases
search_cases
Search the published case archive (Krimidex), newest first. Filter by text, case status and country. Returns summaries with provenance; use get_case for full text, timeline and sources.
media
search_media
Search documentaries, series, films, podcasts and books covered by the publication, newest first.
related
get_related_media
List the documentaries, series, films, podcasts and books the publication links to a case.
stories
search_stories
Search published news stories, newest first. Filter by text and date. Use get_story for the full text.
story
get_story
Get any published article (news, guide, review, profile) as markdown with sources and provenance.
topics
list_topics
List topic tags (people, places, crime types, platforms), optionally filtered by text.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://truecrime.news/mcp streamable-http answering 166 ms 5 min ago

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TrueCrime.News Case Archive — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can TrueCrime.News Case Archive do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_case, get_related_media, get_story, list_topics, search_cases, search_media and 1 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is TrueCrime.News Case Archive working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 75 of 75 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 188 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect TrueCrime.News Case Archive?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does TrueCrime.News Case Archive need an API key?
No. TrueCrime.News Case Archive completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is TrueCrime.News Case Archive?
It answers our handshake in 188 ms on average, which is faster than 71% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.