True Detective Codexery — Data & Quality

We publish our audit record because accuracy claims should be checkable. Every entry on this site runs through an automated fact-audit pipeline (accuracy audit → source-grounded repair → visual QA); this page is generated from that pipeline's own report, not written by hand.

This is a fiction/fan codex: entries describe an in-universe canon. Our audits check canon and internal consistency — external fact-checking does not apply the way it does on real-subject codexes.

Last full accuracy audit: 2026-08-26 · 23 entries checked · 2 flagged · 7 issues confirmed · 2 corrected · 5 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

Frank Semyon — The serial killer is referred to as 'The Taxman' or 'The Birdman'; in the actual canon, the killer is known as 'The Birdman' (or 'The Crow'), but 'The Taxman' is not a canonical name for the killer in Season 2.

Frank Semyon — Frank Semyon meets his end at the hands of Tony Chessani's associates, who stab and rob him in the desert; in canon, Frank is killed by a group of men (not specifically Tony Chessani's associates) who beat and stab him in the desert, but the robbery is not the

John Errol Childress — The entry states Childress lives with his father and step-sister, but in the show he lives with his father and step-mother.

John Errol Childress — The entry says he was killed by Detective Martin Hart, but in the show he is killed by Detective Rust Cohle.

John Errol Childress — [phantom sweep] meta-commentary published as content; rewrite source-grounded

Terrebonne Parish — [phantom sweep] meta-commentary published as content; rewrite source-grounded

Open data

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Corrections

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