The Longform Guide to Crime Writing in Rolling Stone
Jahar's World
The multiple lives of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Janet Reitman Jul 2013 45min
The Strange and Mysterious Death of Jerry Lee Lewis
How Jerry Lee Lewis got away with murdering 25-year-old Shawn Michelle Stevens, his fifth wife.
Richard Ben Cramer Mar 1984 1h
The Devil and John Holmes
He was a nobody who became a porn star, a porn star who became a destitute freebaser, an addict who set up his dealer to be robbed, and finally witness to a retaliatory massacre at the house they called Wonderland.
Mike Sager Mar 1989 50min
The Stoner Arms Dealers
How two friends, working with nothing but an Internet connection, a couple of cellphones and a steady supply of weed, beat out Fortune 500 giants like General Dynamics to score a huge arms contract.
Guy Lawson Mar 2011 45min
An American Drug Lord in Acapulco
How a middle-class jock from a Texas border town who became La Barbie, one of the most ruthless and feared cartel leaders in Mexico.
Vanessa Grigoriadis, Mary Cuddehe Aug 2011 25min
The Boy Who Heard Too Much
Matthew Weigman was blind, overweight, 14 and alone. He could also do anything he wanted with a phone. Sometimes that meant calling Lindsay Lohan. Other times it meant sending a SWAT team to an enemy’s door.For
David Kushner Dec 2009
The Neverending Nightmare of Amanda Knox
Inside the most sensational murder in the history of study abroad.
Nathaniel Rich Jun 2011 30min
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