It was Mr. Henthorn on the Cliff with a Swift Shove By Krista Stevens Highlight Oh, your first wife died in a freak accident too?
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.
At Home on Carmine Street By Abigail Rasminsky Feature Abigail Rasminsky thought she’d survived a robbery unscathed. Then she realized it was following her everywhere.
The Castration Heard Around the World By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Lorena and John Wayne Bobbit’s famous castration story remains relevant twenty-five years after the incident, and just as painful.
The Daughter as Detective By Alice Bolin Feature A bibliophile tries to understand her father through his favorite Swedish mystery books.
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?
Born Again By Longreads Feature “Rebirth therapy” was meant to help a troubled girl start over, but it ended her life instead.
Want Your Husband to Stay True? Kill a Hummingbird and Roll it in Oil and Honey By Krista Stevens Highlight People are capturing and killing hummingbirds for cockamamie love potions, and Mexico doesn’t seem to care.
Did Brian Easley Have to Die? By Aaron Gell Feature A desperate veteran, missing his disability payment, walked into a bank and took several people hostage. This is how he got there.
Elderly Japanese Women Are Turning to Crime to Find Companionship in Prison By Krista Stevens Highlight For some elderly women in Japan, prison offers companionship and a life free from worry.
What Happened Onboard the ‘Nautilus’? By Michelle Legro Highlight May Jeong searches for answers after the death of her friend, journalist Kim Wall.
What If Forensic Science Isn’t Really Science? By Michelle Legro Highlight When bad forensics enter the courtroom, it can become impossible to get rid of them.
A Teen and a Toy Gun By Leah Sottile Feature This is the story of the last day of 17-year-old Quanice Hayes’s life. It involves a police department that says they have no good way of deciphering between real guns and fake ones, and a family still searching for answers.
Stewards of the Blood By Aaron Gilbreath Feature One California woman tries to understand the code of honor that young men live by in blood feuds.
The Encyclopedia of the Missing By Jeremy Lybarger Feature She keeps watch over one of the largest databases of missing persons in the country. For Meaghan Good, the disappeared are still out here, you just have to know where to look.
Longreads Best of 2017: Local Reporting By Longreads Reading List We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in local reporting.
Longreads Best of 2017: Crime Reporting By Longreads Reading List 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.
No Más Fantasía By Chris Outcalt Feature What happens when you’re sentenced to life in prison as a teenager, then released 19 years later and sent to a place that’s supposed to feel like home?
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?
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.
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.
The Whistleblower in the Family By Aaron Gilbreath Feature After her father was arrested for fraud, Pearl Abraham began the the slow, painful process of unraveling her Hasidic family ties.
Breaking Into China’s Counterfeit Supply Chains By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How private detectives crack down on China’s rampant counterfeit industry.
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?
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.
How One Porn Mogul Made His Fortune and Ruined Everything By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Michael Thevis built a lucrative pornography empire in the 1970s only to spend the rest of his life in prison.
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.
