In Service of the Slender Man: When Teen Girls Become Murderous By Krista Stevens Highlight Alex Mar on how and why teen-girl duos become murderous.
The Big Black Market for Spare Human Body Parts By Krista Stevens Highlight Beware, should you donate your body to science in the US. Lightly regulated, the industry is ripe for fraudsters trying to make a buck on your personage.
Wherever You Go, There You Are. Charles Manson is There, Too. By Michelle Weber Highlight Do we carry pieces of our younger selves with us, even as we grow and change?
Is This House Haunted, or Is That Just a Drunk Guy on the Lawn? By Michelle Weber Highlight The owners of the real-life Amityville Horror house had to have the street address changed to avoid the real terror: tourists.
Bringing Up the Bodies: How NecroSearch Helps Police to Locate the Dead By Krista Stevens Highlight Why do they volunteer their time in such a grisly enterprise? To bring closure to the families of the dead.
The Wolf In a Puffy Marmot Jacket By Krista Stevens Highlight Even when his tall tales became erratic, women still didn’t want to believe Jeff Caldwell was ripping them off.
Scientific Conferences Are Filled with Spies By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The world’s intelligence agencies send operatives to scientific conferences to collect information and protect themselves.
An Interview with MacArthur ‘Genius’ Jason De León By Matt Giles Feature The anthropologist studies the objects left behind by migrants as they cross the border.
Another Year, Another Fraternity Hazing Death By Michelle Weber Highlight For 12 hours, Tim Piazza fought for his life as his frat brothers did nothing to help.
The Creator of Bitcoin Comes Clean, Only to Disappear Again By Longreads Feature The mysterious creator of bitcoin asks a journalist to help reveal his identity.
He Seemed Like the Real Thing, Until He Wasn’t By Michelle Legro Highlight Christopher Goffard’s seven-part series on a dangerous Orange County con man is an astonishing tale of love and violence.
We Need to Talk About Madness: A Reading List By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary Talking about it is terrifying, but not talking about it is deadly.
Gloria Allred’s Personal Crusade By Sari Botton Highlight First-hand knowledge of the trauma of sexual assault has informed Allred’s fight against it.
The Panic in Twin Falls, Idaho By Michelle Legro Highlight It had one of the most successful refugee resettlement programs in the nation. Then Breitbart came to town.
The Death of an Heir: Adolph Coors III and the Murder That Rocked an American Brewing Dynasty By Longreads Feature More than fifty years ago, one man tried to hold the Coors brewery CEO for ransom. Things went very badly.
‘What Do You Say To People Who Think They Have Nothing to Hide?’ By Longreads Feature Nathan Wessler, a lawyer with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, monitors a government that increasingly monitors its citizens.
Harvard’s About-Face on Michelle Jones’s Acceptance By Sari Botton Commentary The ex-convict, who became a history scholar behind bars, prepares to start classes at NYU instead.
Welcome Nowhere: The Plight of the Rohingya Refugees By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Myanmar’s Rohingya people escape systematic discrimination at home only to suffer depredations in search of new homes.
Down and Out in Rancho Santa Margarita By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight When a retired cop starts robbing banks, it takes a reporter to figure out why.
Breaking Into China’s Counterfeit Supply Chains By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How private detectives crack down on China’s rampant counterfeit industry.
‘Everyone is Guilty All the Time’ By Michelle Weber Highlight Is prosecuting crimes about justice, or conviction rates? In Shelby County, Tennessee, the answer isn’t so clear.
The Arsonist Was Like a Ghost By Longreads Feature It was the thirtieth fire in less than two months. Who was trying to burn down Accomack County?
Avast, Ye Mateys: There’s Insurance Fraud Ahead By Michelle Weber Highlight Was the Brillante Virtuoso attacked by pirates, or was it an inside job?
Processing Clues About a Friend’s True Identity to Make Sense of Her Murder By Sari Botton Highlight In an excerpt from her memoir, Carolyn Murnick tries to piece together the stabbing murder of her childhood friend.
These Law Enforcement Officers Wield Handguns and Vet Supplies By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Nevada’s “cow cops” work a unique beat where crimes range from cattle rustling, bovine homicide, and animal abuse.
Kingston’s Little Shop of Horrors By Sari Botton Highlight James Lasdun chronicles a murder trial in which his own dentist is the defendant.
Something Unspeakable Happened in Allende, Mexico By Michelle Weber Highlight Seven years after a vicious drug cartel massacre, residents are still looking for answers about the fates of their loved ones.
Schrödinger’s Convict: Actually Innocent, Actually a Felon By Michelle Weber Highlight An “Alford plea” gets an innocent man out of jail, but keeps him on the books as a convicted felon.
Treating Our Border As a Battle Zone By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Twenty years after Marines fatally shot an innocent 18-year old man in West Texas, the War on Drugs and militarization of the US-Mexico border has left many local people feeling less safe.
The Great, Ongoing California Nut Caper By Krista Stevens Highlight At Outside, Peter Vigneron reports on a spree of nut heists thought to be linked to a Russian organized-crime ring.
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