The Blood House at Fountain Drive
When human blood overtakes a house amid racial turmoil in 1987 Atlanta, terrifying the family inside, a mystery opens up that persists to this day.
When human blood overtakes a house amid racial turmoil in 1987 Atlanta, terrifying the family inside, a mystery opens up that persists to this day.
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Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.
Rebecca Mead New Yorker Nov 2020 30min Permalink
It’s been 14 years since Bryan Pata was shot to death just after football practice. He was months away from the NFL Draft. His killer is still free.
Paula Lavigne, Elizabeth Merrill ESPN Nov 2020 40min Permalink
A bizarre 1970 Arctic killing over a jug of raisin wine shows that we need to think about crime outside our atmosphere now.
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Chris Pomorski Highline Nov 2020 40min Permalink
On the legal quagmire facing the President if Joe Biden wins.
Jane Mayer New Yorker Nov 2020 25min Permalink
Vince Ramos wanted Phantom Secure to be the Uber of privacy-focused, luxury-branded phones—flood the market with devices, and sort out the law later. Then the FBI investigated him.
Joseph Cox Motherboard Oct 2020 35min Permalink
“I watched my friend dying on Facebook. But it was all a GoFundMe scam.”
Sarah Treleaven OneZero Oct 2020 25min Permalink
DNA evidence proved Lydell Grant’s innocence. So why won’t the state’s highest criminal court exonerate him?
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Oct 2020 40min Permalink
A former inmate on justice, violence, and jail time.
Reginald Dwayne Betts New York Times Magazine Oct 2020 20min Permalink
When Jennifer Farber disappeared in 2019, suspicion immediately centered on her husband and press coverage almost exclusively painted her as a missing suburban mom. But reducing the 50-year-old’s life to a familiar tabloid trope missed so much of her story.
Vanessa Grigoriadis Vanity Fair Oct 2020 30min Permalink
Big banks entrusted money to an armored truck company GardaWorld. It secretly lost track of millions.
Bethany Barnes Tampa Bay Times Oct 2020 25min Permalink
What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, “genius,” Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.
Leland Nally Mother Jones Oct 2020 40min Permalink
A teenage clerk dialed 911. How should the brothers who own CUP Foods pay for what happened next?
Aymann Ismail Slate Oct 2020 25min Permalink
How the seizure of Europe’s largest heroin shipment created bloody fallout throughout the world—and sparked still-raging political corruption scandals in Turkey, Greece, and the Middle East.
Alexander Clapp The New Republic Sep 2020 30min Permalink
How a middle-class jock from a Texas border town became La Barbie, one of the most ruthless and feared cartel leaders in Mexico.
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People in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, thought Lois Reiss was a nice wife and grandmother. If she had a vice, it was playing the slots. Then she committed murder.
John Rosengren The Atavist Magazine Sep 2020 40min Permalink
A prolific con artist, decades of grift, and a trail of shattered relationships.
Katherine Laidlaw Toronto Life Sep 2020 25min Permalink
How eBay’s Global Security and Resiliency team ran a rogue campaign to terrorize a blogger couple with insects, pornography and pizza.
David Streitfeld New York Times Sep 2020 Permalink
On America’s interstates, brazen bands of thieves steal 18-wheelers filled with computers, cell phones, even toilet paper. And select law enforcement teams are tasked with tracking them down.
Dylan Taylor-Lehman Narratively Sep 2020 15min Permalink
Thomas Quick confessed to more than 30 murders. But the man also known as Sture Bergwall may not have committed any of them.
Elizabeth Day The Observer Oct 2012 20min Permalink
Two men died of meth overdoses at the home of a West Hollywood political donor. Dark conspiracy theories abounded— but the truth is even darker
Jesse Barron New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 35min Permalink
She wanted to escape her marriage. He wanted to escape his life sentence.
Michael J. Mooney The Atlantic Sep 2020 30min Permalink
COVID-19 has led many Americans to rethink prison. But a habitual offender law has condemned hundreds of people who never physically hurt anyone to grow old and die behind bars.
Beth Shelburne Daily Beast Sep 2020 40min Permalink
A Florida sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens. It monitors and harasses families across the county.
KATHLEEN McGRORY, Neil Bedi Tampa Bay Times Sep 2020 30min Permalink