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The Body in Room 348

The corpse at the Eleganté Hotel stymied the Beaumont, Texas, police. They could find no motive for the killing of popular oil-and-gas man Greg Fleniken—and no explanation for how he had…
PUBLISHED: May 1, 2013
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8109 words)

A Loaded Gun

Amy Bishop alongside her parents, Judy and Sam, in 1987. Judy calls Amy a “brilliant girl” who “just snapped.”
PUBLISHED: Feb. 11, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (957 words)

Robert Ben Rhoades

In the summer of 1985, somewhere near Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, the body of a young woman was pulled from a truck-stop Dumpster. I had just hitched a ride
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LENGTH: 5 minutes (1486 words)

The Throwaways

ABSTRACT: A REPORTER AT LARGE about Rachel Hoffman and the unsupervised informant system. On the evening of May 7, 2008, a twenty-three-year-old recent Florida State graduate named Rachel Hoffman got…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 3, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (979 words)

Gardena man's rescue of fellow bus rider's bike changes his life

How do you know when your life will open wide?Chris Bolivar was having the most ordinary of afternoons.One weekday a year ago February, he caught his usual bus at 1st and Hope after his shift at the…
PUBLISHED: July 11, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1561 words)

America's dirty little secret

"It was eight years before I was able to say the word that describes what happened to me," says Maricella Guzman. "I hadn't even been in the Navy a month. I was so young. I tried to report it. But…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 9, 2011
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2990 words)

The Shame of College Sports

A litany of scandals in recent years have made the corruption of college sports constant front-page news. We profess outrage each time we learn that yet another student-athlete has been taking…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1198 words)

New Evidence Adds Doubt to FBI’s Case Against Anthrax Suspect

A U.S. Army scientist stands near the letters used in the 2001 anthrax attacks (Photo courtesy of FBI). This story is a joint project with ProPublica,…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 11, 2011
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3572 words)
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