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Mass Shooting

Best Article Crime

A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof

“I decided that if he would not tell us his story, then I would.”

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Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah GQ Aug 2017 50min Permalink

Best Article Crime World

The Harrowing Hours and Defiant Aftermath of the New Zealand Mosque Shootings

After the Christchurch mosque shootings, New Zealand was stunned to silence. But only momentarily.

Sean Flynn GQ Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Crime

"Everything That You're Feeling Is Okay"

After a mass shooting, who cares for the coroners?

Ann Givens GQ, The Trace Sep 2019 25min Permalink

Crime

Is It Possible to Stop a Mass Shooting Before It Happens?

You’ve never heard of her, but somewhere in America, a top-secret investigator known as the Savant is infiltrating online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country.

Andrea Stanley Cosmopolitan Aug 2019 15min Permalink

Crime

‘I Shouldn’t Be Here’

Survivors of the Pulse nightclub shooting, nine months later.

Jordan Ritter Conn The Ringer Mar 2017 35min Permalink

Crime

The Heroes of San Bernardino: 1 Year After the Attacks

A minute by minute account of the officers and first responders on the scene of the San Bernadino shooting and the subsequent firefight between police and and the Farooks.

Brian Ross, Megan Christie, Josh Margolin, Rhonda Schwartz, Paul Blake ABC News Dec 2016 10min Permalink

Crime

Seeking Custody and Answers

When a husband and wife killed 14 at an office Christmas party in San Bernardino, they also orphaned their 6-month-old daughter. This is her life — and the life of the aunt and uncle who want to adopt her — a year later.

Eli Saslow Washington Post Nov 2016 Permalink

Best Article

Scenes From the Terrifying, Already Forgotten JFK Airport Shooting That Wasn’t

“There was no they.' There was not even a 'he,' no armed person turning on a crowd. But what happened at JFK last night was, in every respect but the violence, a mass shooting.”

David Wallace-Wells New York Aug 2016 15min Permalink

Crime

The Orlando Killer: “Always Agitated. Always Mad.”

Who was Omar Mateen?

Dan Barry, Serge F. Kovaleski, Alan Blinder, Mujib Mashal New York Times Jun 2016 Permalink

Business

Fully Loaded

How America’s 10 biggest gunmakers do business.

Josh Harkinson Mother Jones Jun 2016 20min Permalink

Massacre on Ninth and Main

America’s first modern mass shooting.

Sarah Weinman Buzzfeed Mar 2016 25min Permalink

Crime Politics

Inside the Snitch Tank

What seems like a slam-dunk case against a mass murderer exposes widespread prosecutorial misconduct in Orange County.

Edward Humes Orange County Register Jan 2016 1h20min Permalink

A Survivor's Life

Her 4th day of college was a mass shooting. Here is what life is like afterward.

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Eli Saslow on the Longform Podcast

Eli Saslow The Washington Post Dec 2015 Permalink

Crime

Who's the Alpha Male Now, Bitches?

On the manifestos that mass shooters leave behind.

Andrew O'Hagan London Review of Books Oct 2015 20min Permalink

Crime

Inexplicable Crime

On the psychology of mass killer Anders Behring Breivik.

Karl Ove Knaussgard New Yorker May 2015 15min Permalink

Crime

Not One More

The survivors of a mass shooting, 20 years later.

Deanna Pan The Inlander Jun 2014 20min Permalink

Fiction

On the Way to the Killing Spree the Shooter Stops for Pizza

An unsettling look at the moments before infamy.

"The hero teacher will be shot through the lungs because this is not a world for heroes. This is a world for villains; this is a world for grand statements over subtlety."

Tom McAllister Sundog Lit Jun 2014 10min 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