Trial By Fire
The arson case that may have led Texas to execute an innocent man.
The arson case that may have led Texas to execute an innocent man.
David Grann New Yorker Sep 2009 1h5min Permalink
The many lives of imposter Frédéric Bourdin.
David Grann New Yorker Aug 2008 45min Permalink
Rodrigo Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Guatemala, began, in the spring of 2009, to prophesy his own murder. The unraveling of a political conspiracy.
David Grann New Yorker Jan 2012 55min Permalink
An obsessive marine biologist gambles his savings, family, and sanity on a quest to be the first to capture a live giant squid.
David Grann New Yorker May 2004 45min Permalink
How a solitary trek across Antarctica became a singular test of character.
David Grann New Yorker Feb 2017 1h25min Permalink
The world’s foremost Sherlock Holmes expert found dead in a locked room, leaving no note.
David Grann New Yorker Dec 2004 50min Permalink
Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, the founder of a barbaric Haitian paramilitary group, vanished from Port-au-Prince and resurfaced as a real estate agent in Queens.
David Grann The Atlantic Jun 2001 1h Permalink
The city that fell in love with the mob.
David Grann The New Republic Jul 2000 30min Permalink
After oil was discovered on their Oklahoma reservation, the Osage Nation became the richest people per capita in the world. Then they began to be murdered off mysteriously. In 1924 the nascent FBI sent a team of undercover agents, including a Native American, to the Osage reservation.
David Grann New Yorker Mar 2017 15min Permalink
The story of William Morgan: American, wanderer, Cuban revolutionary.
David Grann New Yorker May 2012 1h25min Permalink
Firefighter Kevin Shea, one of the first responders on September 11, 2001, was “the survivor who couldn’t remember what no one else could forget.”
David Grann New York Times Magazine Jan 2002 25min Permalink
A mystery embedded deep within the Amazon.
David Grann New Yorker Sep 2005 1h20min Permalink
Robert Blake, Bonny Lee Bakley, and the misery of celebrity.
David Grann The New Republic Aug 2001 20min Permalink
The story of Donald Smaltz, an independent prosecutor run amok.
David Grann The New Republic Feb 1998 20min Permalink
A profile of Barry Bonds published as the steroid talk intensified.
David Grann New York Times Magazine Sep 2002 30min Permalink
The man who keeps finding famous fingerprints on uncelebrated works of art.
David Grann New Yorker Apr 2011 1h5min Permalink