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The Observer

Crime Tech

Kim Dotcom: From Playboy Entrepreneur to Political Firebrand

A profile of the Megaupload founder, who has started a political party in New Zealand as the U.S. continues to fight for his extradition.

Carole Cadwalladr The Observer Aug 2014 20min Permalink

Crime

Thomas Quick: the Swedish serial killer who never was

He confessed to more than 30 murders. But Thomas Quick (also known as Sture Bergwall) may not have committed any of them.

Elizabeth Day The Observer Oct 2012 20min Permalink

World

Beauty and the Beast

When ‘Ceca’, the Madonna of the Balkans, met Arkan, bank robber turned paramilitary leader and war criminal, and how it all came to a tragic end in the lobby of the Belgrade Intercontinental.

Adam Higginbotham The Observer Jan 2004 25min Permalink