To catch a serial killer.
murder
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
‘Transforming Craft Into An Act of Protest’: Embroidery In Response to Femicide in Mexico
An embroidery collective in Mexico sews the stories of slain women.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Memory Weavers
“Transforming craft into an act of protest against indifference, against the lack of willpower to reverse or address a societal ill, is something that Mexican women, and women around the world, are familiar with.”
Posted inCrime, Highlight, Profiles & Interviews, Quote Posts, Quotes
Bonded by Grief, Pain, and Loss
“Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?”
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‘It’s the Most Outrageous Thing I’ve Ever Seen. It Makes No Sense.’
“DNA evidence proved Lydell Grant’s innocence. So why won’t the state’s highest criminal court exonerate him?”
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Detective Fitbit
Can Fitbit data help to convict the alleged perpetrator of a brutal murder?
Posted inNonfiction
“What Do I Know To Be True?”: Emma Copley Eisenberg on Truth in Nonfiction, Writing Trauma, and The Dead Girl Newsroom
“We were interested in dead girls, but so interested in them that we were trying to do the opposite of what had been done before.”
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Closure in Service of Grief: the Septuagenarian Couple Who Locate Bodies Under Water
“What Gene and Sandy offer is not the hope of rescue, but the solace of finality. They have spent years crisscrossing North America in the service of grief.”
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The Guy who Ordered a Hit On His Stepmother for $5
Death, delivered as per your instructions.
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This Month in Books: ‘I Don’t Want To Become a Giant Insect!’
This month’s books newsletter is a bodily affair.