A little over 30 years ago, a Northern Neck fisherman went to prison for the brutal slaying of a homecoming queen and mother of two. Now, a reexamination of the case by a hard-charging UVA lawyer has turned up troubling questions.
A Washington family’s nightmare year.
“Yeah, okay, listen. It’s Sy Hersh. Who the f— do you think I am? Your f—ing wife? What do I look like to you? Your f—ing brother-in-law?”
They got heart transplants on the same day. Then they fell in love.
To the KGB and back.
A mom looks back on the “brief but wondrous experience” of raising her son Mattie, a little boy poet with a devastating rare disease who earned a following around the world.
A profile of Steve Bannon’s 29-year-old protégé, the Washington bureau chief at Breitbart, who according to a former editor “has two modes: murder and blowjob.”
How a tragedy transformed a small town in West Virginia.
Donors all over America opened their wallets for his United States Navy Veterans Association. Politicians all over Washington posed for grip-and-grins with him. But not only was he not a legitimate fundraiser for military families—he wasn’t even Bobby Charles Thompson.
How a brewery became more famous for what’s on its bottle than what’s in it.
Chris Barry was born into Washington D.C. royalty. He died alone, essentially homeless, just a year after losing a race for his father’s former seat.
On chemo.
The story of a home invasion, a torture session, and one lawyer who nearly killed another.
He drives a Toyota. He eats fro-yo. He takes care of two dozen feral cats.
Editor’s note, 7/27/16: Hinckley has won his freedom and will live full-time with his mother.
Rabbi Barry Freundel said he would help dozens of women convert to Judaism. In the process, he secretly videotaped them naked.
A profile of Joe Biden, written not long after the car crash that killed his wife and daughter.
If you’re falsely claiming to have once been a Navy SEAL, Don Shipley will expose you. And then he’ll put the video on YouTube.
Although she is one of the richest writers in the country, her finances are a mess.
John Beale was an exemplary employee at the Environmental Protection Agency. He also led a double life, though not the rumored one at the CIA his colleagues whispered about.
The man who killed John Wilkes Booth was a eunuch. By choice.
What happened to one of the most hated basketball players in NCAA history after playing a single season at Georgetown.
Behind a $1,000 sundae were two very, very ill-suited business partners.
The residents of Green Bank, West Virginia, can’t use cell phones, wi-fi, or other modern technology due to a high-tech government telescope. Recently, this ban has made the town a magnet for so-called electrosensitives, and the locals aren’t thrilled to have them.
The inside story, involving low ratings, new ownership, suspected leaks, and a mandate that Meet the Press “loosen up.”
