Murder in Whip City
A respected professor shot dead through the mansion window. A quaint New England town shaken to its core. One all-consuming obsession in Whip City.
A respected professor shot dead through the mansion window. A quaint New England town shaken to its core. One all-consuming obsession in Whip City.
Deborah Halber Truly*Adventurous Jul 2021 25min Permalink
For nearly 17 years, the truth about the murder of Mac Dre has been one of hip-hop’s great unsolved mysteries.
Donny Morrison Passion of the Weiss May 2021 35min Permalink
How the murder of Timothy Coggins was finally solved.
Wesley Lowery GQ Jul 2020 15min Permalink
Why a Nova Scotia community is still searching for the killer of a beloved farmer thirty years later.
Lindsay Jones The Walrus Jun 2020 20min Permalink
“The caller reminded me I had written about her killing three decades earlier.”
Mary Jordan The Washington Post Dec 2018 20min Permalink
A long-dormant police investigation gives the case new life.
Nathan Fenno LA Times Sep 2018 15min Permalink
In 1921, a teenager died alone in Kentucky and was buried without a name. A century later, a team of sleuths set out to find his identity.
Alina Simone The Atavist Magazine Sep 2017 1h Permalink
Police have dragged the lake. They’ve dug up property. They’ve brought in dogs. But after twenty years, they still can’t find the bodies of the four missing seniors in Muskoka.
Zander Sherman The Walrus Sep 2017 20min Permalink
Maurice Spagnoletti was hired to clean up one of the island’s largest banks. He found fraud, waste, and executives performing Santeria rituals in the conference room. Then he was killed on his way home.
Zeke Faux Businessweek Jul 2016 20min Permalink
In 1998, a cop named Jon Aujay went for a run in the desert. He never came back. The department decided it was suicide, but that is not the only theory.
Claire Martin Los Angeles Oct 2015 40min Permalink
Eight of serial killer John Wayne Gacy’s victims remained a mystery, 35 years after his conviction. One man made it his mission to identify them.
Tim Stelloh Buzzfeed Jan 2015 25min Permalink
A 55-year-old cold case ends with a conviction. But was justice really served?
Playing outside after dinner, best friends Kathy and Maria meet a man calling himself “Johnny.” Kathy runs home to grab mittens; upon her return, her 7-year-old friend and the stranger are nowhere to be found.
The story of Jack McCullough, once known as John Tessier, a man who once lived near Kathy and Maria and has a troubling history of abusing women.
Police zero in on McCullough after a deathbed confession.
Half a century after her friend was abducted, Kathy identifies the man who took Maria.
Jack McCullough is convicted of Maria’s kidnapping and murder, but questions are raised about the evidence (or lack thereof) presented at trial.
Ann O'Neill CNN Aug 2013 20min Permalink
How the case of a poisoned college student in China, cold for 18 years, has suddenly turned into “what may be the largest amateur online manhunt in history.”
Kevin Morris The Daily Dot May 2013 15min Permalink