The Hunt for One of the World's Most Wanted Men
Following the United Nations’ war crimes detectives who tracked down a man who helped unleash the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
Following the United Nations’ war crimes detectives who tracked down a man who helped unleash the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
Joshua Hammer GQ Jan 2021 30min Permalink
Joe Ford, car detective, searches the world for stolen rare automobiles on the black market.
Stayton Bonner Esquire Aug 2019 25min Permalink
She moved to Cape Cod to escape the glitzy Manhattan world she born into. The only witness to her murder was her 2-year-old daughter. Everyone she knew, it seemed, was a suspect.
Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Feb 2002 25min Permalink
Nearly all the world’s fake products come from China. America’s oldest private detective agency is on the case.
Joshua Hunt California Sunday Aug 2017 15min Permalink
A detective, a mysterious murder, an unexpected confrontation.
Maryse Meijer The Collagist Aug 2016 Permalink
In 1948, a man was found on a beach in South Australia. The circumstances of his death and his identity were rich with mystery. When an amateur sleuth became obsessed, he could not imagine where the clues would lead him.
Graeme Wood California Sunday Jun 2015 Permalink
During New York’s ’80s and ’90s crack epedemic, a flashy detective who “imagined himself a crusader who created his own rules” and his star witness, a crack addicted prostitute who seemed to constantly be at the scene of homicides, sent dozens of men to prison for life. Now, they are under investigation.
Frances Robles, N.R. Kleinfield New York Times May 2013 10min Permalink
The criminologist/lawyer who created Perry Mason unravels the Boston Strangler case, in which eleven women were murdered by an assailant they willingly let into their homes.
Erle Stanley Gardner The Atlantic May 1964 25min Permalink
“From the start, it was a bad case.
A battered 21-year-old woman with long blond curls was discovered facedown in the weeds, naked, at the western edge of Miami, where the neat grid of outer suburbia butts up against the high grass and black mud of the Everglades.”
Mark Bowden Vanity Fair Dec 2010 30min Permalink
For the last two decades, the varied personalities behind the Vidocq Society—retired cops, sketch artists, FBI agents—have gathered in Philadelphia to tackled cold-case homicides over lunch. They claim to have solved more than half.
Adam Higginbotham The Telegraph Nov 2008 15min Permalink
A Wikipedia-style dissection of the case that inspired The Fugitive. The accused, Dr. Sam Sheppard, claimed to have struggled with an intruder before being knocked out and dumped on a beach, his wife’s left corpse in their house.
Denise Noe Crime Magazine Jun 2010 Permalink
An unidentified body found near the beach in Australia in 1948. An unclaimed suitcase. A coded note.