The Dead Man Fund

How the world’s worst investor fleeced clients who couldn’t complain.

Source: Longreads
Published: Nov 9, 2017
Length: 6 minutes (1,672 words)

The Shaming of the Cherry Sisters

How “vaudeville’s worst act” fought for fame and respect on the stage.

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 6, 2016
Length: 15 minutes (3,795 words)

The Bomb in the Bag

How America’s first suicide attack changed one man’s fortune forever.

Source: Longreads
Published: Mar 4, 2015
Length: 14 minutes (3,509 words)

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist

Encounters behind bars between Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering and an American doctor 65 years ago raise questions about responsibility, allegiance and the nature of evil. “After Goering matter-of-factly recounted the murder of a close associate that he had once set into motion, Kelley asked how he could bring himself to demand his old friend be killed. ‘Goering stopped talking and stared at me, puzzled, as if I were not quite bright,’ Kelley recalled. ‘Then he shrugged his great shoulders, turned up his palms and said slowly, in simple, one-syllable words: “But he was in my way….” ‘”

Published: Dec 26, 2010
Length: 12 minutes (3,178 words)