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Mass Killing

Crime World

Massacre in the Amazon

Jane de Oliveira set out to protect the world’s largest rain forest from the corporate interests that are burning it to the ground. Then the armed men showed up.

Jesse Hyde Vanity Fair Mar 2020 20min Permalink

Crime

The Uber Killer

On a Saturday evening in February, a 45-year-old Uber driver and father of two named Jason Dalton got into his car, left his home near Kalamazoo, Michigan, and began shooting people. But the strangest, most unfathomable thing about the night that Dalton killed and killed again is what he did in between.

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Chris Heath on the Longform Podcast.

Chris Heath GQ Aug 2016 40min Permalink

Crime

Inexplicable Crime

On the psychology of mass killer Anders Behring Breivik.

Karl Ove Knaussgard New Yorker May 2015 15min Permalink

Crime World

West End Boy

On Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik and the rise of Islamophobia in Norway.

Adam Shatz London Review of Books Nov 2014 15min Permalink

Arts Crime World

On A Norwegian Tragedy and 2083: A European Declaration of Independence

The writings of Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik are a copy-and-paste hodgepodge of “jeremiads against the scourge of cultural theory, lists of atrocities perpetuated by Muslims, and pages of derision of ‘female sluts,’ but also Wikipedia articles about sugar beet farming and investment tips.”

Rachel Monroe Los Angeles Review of Books May 2014 10min Permalink