“High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy.”
True Crime
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The Mansion, the Heiress, the Jewel Heist, and Me: A Bel-Air Fairytale
“Sixty-five years ago, my grandfather masterminded a robbery at a historic Los Angeles estate.”
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The Search
“More than thirteen years ago, Araceli Salcedo Jiménez’s daughter, Rubí, was disappeared from a bar in Orizaba. Since then, Araceli has led an effort to dig up hundreds of clandestine graves looking for the victims of Mexico’s drug war. She is still digging.”
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The Shooting of Two Cornell Freshmen, 42 Years Later
“In 1983 six students were taken hostage in a Cornell dormitory. Two of them were killed. How have the survivors reckoned with what happened to them, and what made us forget about this act of violence?”
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The Man Who Broke Into Jail
“In Nashville, a criminal-justice activist commits a baffling crime.”
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He Called Himself an ‘Untouchable Hacker God’. But Who Was Behind the Biggest Crime Finland Has Ever Known?
“How would you feel if your therapist’s notes – your darkest thoughts and deepest feelings – were exposed to the world? For 33,000 Finnish people, that became a terrifying reality, with deadly consequences.”
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Death by Duxelles
“This was a story of culinary disguise, of meat concealed in dough and murder masquerading as lunch.”
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The Baby Whisperer
“Marian Fraser once ran the go-to day care for Waco’s elite. But the community turned against her after she was arrested for the death of a child in her charge. The evidence against her was circumstantial, yet many came to believe there had long been a dark secret to her success.”
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Inside the Glitter Lab
“How the tiniest trace of red shimmer helped solve one of California’s most brutal crimes.”
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99 Problems: The Ice Cream Truck’s Surprising History
From crime panics to TikTok, summer’s favorite vehicle has driven a bumpy road.