Tag: crime reporting

Rachel Monroe talks about the pitfalls of the true crime genre. “I had this feeling like I can see the whole thing and nobody else understands… That’s a real trap that we as reporters can fall in.”

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in crime reporting.

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.

A group of Chicago cops spent years framing innocent men, but thanks to one determined woman, their convictions are finally getting overturned.

One civilian is obsessed with investigating the eight student deaths in a 1967 fire at Cornell University.

When bad forensics enter the courtroom, it can become impossible to get rid of them.

Christopher Goffard’s seven-part series on a dangerous Orange County con man is an astonishing tale of love and violence.

It had one of the most successful refugee resettlement programs in the nation. Then Breitbart came to town.

More than fifty years ago, one man tried to hold the Coors brewery CEO for ransom. Things went very badly.

When a retired cop starts robbing banks, it takes a reporter to figure out why.

Michael Thevis built a lucrative pornography empire in the 1970s only to spend the rest of his life in prison.

A 1992 murder of a young boy unravels a journalist’s dark family secrets.

TV producer Nicole Lucas Haimes details her fascination with one North Carolina man whose attempt to run an honest court got him killed.

At The New York Review of Books, James Fenton reports from the night shift in Manila, giving us a glimpse into the war on drugs in the Philippines, from “buy-bust” undercover operations to EJKs (extrajudicial killings).

We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here, the best in crime reporting.

When you work the night shift for too long, the murders start to link up with one another, blending cause and effect in a centrifugal force that gnaws away at the city. The veteran reporters start to see this; the man gunned down one night is related to an ongoing gang dispute, which originates in […]

In the California Sunday Magazine, Tessa Stuart writes the gripping story of a criminal who worked the people who work the fields in California’s rural interior, and the detective agency who raced to catch him. The story has all the markings of a Netflix original series, except in place of drugs or gold, the loot is […]

The best in crime reporting.

In the April 2008 issue of Los Angeles magazine reporter Mark Arax wrote about Los Angeles’ beloved Zankou Chicken chain, and how one owner tore the founding family apart by murdering two of its members and killing himself. The story is a compelling mix of family dynamics, fast food and the complex American dream. It was […]

We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in specific categories. Here, the best in crime reporting.