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.
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.
Wrestling With the Truth By Aaron Gilbreath Feature A 1992 murder of a young boy unravels a journalist’s dark family secrets.
How Thieves Are Stealing 6500-Ton Ships Off the Sea Floor By Krista Stevens Highlight In a bid for valuable scrap metal, pirate divers have stolen entire sunken ships.
The Unlikely Friendship of Long Ma and Bac Duong By Michelle Weber Highlight When taxi driver Long Ma agreed to drive Bac Duong home, he had no idea he was about to be taken hostage by three escaped inmates.
Carol Blevins: The Confidential Informant Who is Now A Target for Murder By Krista Stevens Highlight Carol Blevins’ work as a confidential informant put 13 members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas behind bars. Now they want revenge.
The Gun Barrel and the Damage Done: A Profile of Trauma Surgeon Amy Goldberg By Krista Stevens Highlight Jason Fagone profiles veteran trauma surgeon Dr. Amy Goldberg, who spends her days saving the lives of gunshot victims in Philadelphia, PA.
She Got Hacked So You Don’t Have To By Krista Stevens Highlight At GQ, Sarah Jeong willingly got “spearphished,” a sophisticated email hack that uses your trust against you.
The Complicated Power of DIY Justice By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Canadian vigilantes with names like Creep Hunters make popular videos busting pedophiles, and many are now refining their tactics to try and go mainstream.
‘They Would Try to Love Whoever Killed Her, and Forgive.’ By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight In 1985, a girl was abducted and left to die in Winnipeg’s severe cold. While her parents, Cliff and Wilma Derksen, did not yet know the killer’s identity, they made a decision to forgive.
In the 1970s, It Was The Police That Made Made Detroit’s Streets Deadly By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A special police unit terrorized the innocent and murdered the unarmed in the years after Detroit’s race riots.
Searching for the Lost on Public Land By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight At Outside, the disappearance of a teenage runner in Colorado brings up the question: Who searches for the people who disappear on American public lands?
A Small Town Crushed By a Big Weight — the Military-Industrial Complex By Michelle Weber Highlight This meticulously-reported piece explores the bungled investigation into a 1994 double murder in Oak Grove, Kentucky, a small town weighed down by the military-industrial complex.
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