A New View of Crime in America By Longreads Feature What does incarceration do for the member of a family that views prison as a rite of passage? A New York Times reporter takes a close look at intergenerational criminality.
How the Border Patrol Threatens Civil Liberties Far from the Border By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight While ICE makes headlines, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency continues to detain and search American citizens far from the actual border, and it doesn’t need a warrant.
Vladimir Nabokov’s Other Favorite Crime By Sarah Weinman Feature While the Sally Horner case gave ‘Lolita’ its main character, the Edward Grammer case gave the book an almost perfect murder.
How MS-13 Targeted Latino Youths for Execution on Long Island By Krista Stevens Highlight ‘Too often, Suffolk detectives acknowledge, police have stereotyped young immigrants as gang members and minimized violence against them as “misdemeanor murder.”’
Sorry, But Drug-Induced Homicide Laws Aren’t Going to Solve Our Opioid Crisis By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Another ineffective technique has been added to the ineffective war on drugs: Drug-induced homicide charges.
An Accident Compounded By Injustice By Michelle Weber Highlight Wendell Lindsey, convicted of murdering his 10-year-old daughter in a fake drowning, has consistently maintained his innocence — and there’s a lot to suggest he’s telling the truth.
Russian Malware Is Really Killin’ It Lately By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight When Russia attacked Ukraine with sophicated malware in 2017, it caused over $10 billion dollars worth of damage and revealed the whole world’s vulnerabilities.
The Case of the Poisoned Calves By Catherine Cusick Highlight Someone poisoned eighteen of Buck Birdsong’s calves in the past four years. But who? And why?
So Long, and Thanks for All the Value Meals By Michelle Weber Highlight Sorry you never won a million dollars; hope you at least got a fresh batch of fries.
She’ll Be Everything He Isn’t By Michelle Weber Highlight An MRI sparked gymnast Selena Brennan’s interest in sports medicine, and Larry Nassar isn’t going to take that away from her.
Powerful On the Beam or Off By Michelle Weber Highlight Aly Raisman is a six-time Olympic medalist. She’s a survivor of abuse at the hands of Larry Nassar. And now, she’s an activist.
Redlining in the Lap Lane By Catherine Cusick Highlight An incident of police brutality in Texas highlights the ties between private pools, homeowners’ associations, and racist housing policies.
The Good Guys Aren’t Always the Good Guys By Michelle Weber Highlight “About 50 of the 800 women housed at Rosie’s at any one time are being sexually victimized by staff.”
Our Future Success Depends on Rocks from the Sky By Michelle Weber Highlight Steve Curry’s meteor-hunting hobby went from business to obsession to a connection with Cliven Bundy, and eventually landed him in jail after an armed standoff with law enforcement.
The Section 8 Cannabis Eviction Problem By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Although many states legally allow the use of medical marijuana, federal law still prohibits its possession in federally subsidized housing, so many residents live in fear of eviction.
There Are Few Second Chances for Immigrants Who Commit Crimes By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How America punishes immigrant criminals multiple times for the same crime and continues traumatizing them.
The Daughter as Detective By Alice Bolin Feature A bibliophile tries to understand her father through his favorite Swedish mystery books.
The Bungled Bank Robbery That Ended in a Landmark Legal Ruling By Longreads Feature In 1958, John Leo Brady got his lover pregnant and decided to stick up a bank to fund a new life. It ended with a murder, a Supreme Court case, and the formation of the Brady rule.
You’re Putting My Brain Where, Exactly? By Michelle Weber Highlight When you donate your body to science, you don’t get a whole lot of say over what happens to your parts.
Just Another Bugout Behind Bars By Michelle Weber Highlight How and when did prisons become one of the New York’s major providers of mental health care — and can we actually call it “care”?
When the Answers Wash Out with the Tide By Michelle Weber Highlight Police eventually figured out who killed Jaimee Mendez, but not how or why.
In Just 40 Hours, You Too Can Be an Expert By Michelle Weber Highlight Pamela Colloff took the same 40-hour course that is the sum total of the training many blood spatter experts claim… and it did not inspire confidence in the reliability of this particular forensic “science.”
When Forensic “Science” Is Anything But By Michelle Weber Highlight Despite what “Law & Order: CSI” tells us, blood spatter patterns don’t necessarily hold all the keys to a crime scene.
Vacating Convictions from Crooked Chicago Cops By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A group of Chicago cops spent years framing innocent men, but thanks to one determined woman, their convictions are finally getting overturned.
A Pyramid Scheme for the Social Media Generation By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A new breed of charlatan posts images of their fake opulent lifestyles on Instagram to lure followers into investing in sketchy financial products.
The Mexican Mafia and the Conspiracy Behind the Tati Torrez Prison Murder By Krista Stevens Highlight Manuel “Tati” Torrez was killed in broad daylight in the prison yard at ADX Florence. But who was really behind it, and why?
The Surprising Case of One Houston Robber By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The alleged ring leader of a group of violent armored car robbers isn’t the person friends and family knew.
Born Again By Longreads Feature “Rebirth therapy” was meant to help a troubled girl start over, but it ended her life instead.
Unearthing the History of Lynching, One Story at a Time By Danielle Jackson Highlight The descendants of lynching victim Elwood Higginbotham learn the circumstances of his 1935 murder in Oxford, Mississippi.
