Blood on the Mountain
In 1981, Randall Smith murdered two hikers on the Appalachian Trail. Twenty-seven years later, he tried to do it again.
In 1981, Randall Smith murdered two hikers on the Appalachian Trail. Twenty-seven years later, he tried to do it again.
Wil Haygood Washington Post Jul 2008 25min Permalink
A fingerprint expert spends decades investigating the death of an unidentified boy found in the woods in 1957.
Sabrina Rubin Erdely Philadelphia Magazine Nov 2003 20min Permalink
Enbridge, Inc. spilled more than a million gallons of tar sands crude into the Kalamazoo River. Was John Bolenbaugh fired for refusing to cover this up?
Ted Genoways OnEarth Apr 2012 55min Permalink
Life and death inside a NATO hospital in Afghanistan.
Corinne Reilly The Virginian Pilot Jul 2011 45min Permalink
A six-day hoax in which the newspaper fooled its readers into believing that life had been found on the moon.
Sir John Herschel The New York Sun Aug 1835 2h35min Permalink
The long legal saga of Kerry Max Cook, who was convicted of murdering Linda Jo Edwards in 1977 and sent to death row. After three trials, two overturned convictions and a plea deal, Cook is out of prison but still has the crime on his record. He maintains his innocence.
Mark Donald Dallas Observer Jul 1999 1h Permalink
His horror story is emblematic of a bigger problem that lawmakers in Florida and across the nation have only recently begun to recognize: Cops employ confidential informants — sometimes very young ones — to bust criminals. But there's little oversight, and the result of police carelessness can be horrific.
Chuck Strouse The Miami New Times Mar 2012 15min Permalink
Forty years ago, a man was killed in Chicago because he was black. The daughter he never met is still searching for clues about his death.
Steve Bogira Chicago Reader Mar 2012 45min Permalink
A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of group homes for the retarded in Washington, D.C.
Katherine Boo Washington Post Mar 1999 40min Permalink
The son of Jim Nicholson, a former CIA agent convicted of espionage, follows in his father’s footsteps.
bryan denson The Oregonian May 2011 45min Permalink
A travelogue of a three-month tour of Muay Thai boxing camps in Thailand. The author, 28, died in a hit-and-run shortly after returning to the U.S.
Neil Chamberlain The Classical Dec 2011 1h5min Permalink
In 1988, 59 fifth graders in Washington D.C. were promised a free college education. This is the story of what followed.
Paul Schwartzman Washington Post Dec 2011 40min Permalink
A great journalist’s greatest magazine stories.
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After being interrogated by the Worcester Police, Nga Truong confessed to smothering her baby.
David Boeri WBUR Dec 2011 25min Permalink
There’s an entire micro-economy based on the pursuit of betterment. The author—58, full-figured, and ferocious in his consumption of cigarettes and scotch—agreed to test its limits.
Christopher Hitchens Vanity Fair Dec 2007 30min Permalink
Dead of an accidental overdose at 28, Derek Boogaard rose from Western Canada’s rugged youth leagues to become on of Hockey’s most feared pugilists. Along the way, what happened to his brain?
John Branch New York Times Dec 2011 40min Permalink
On a prison hospice in California.
Kurt Streeter The Los Angeles Times Nov 2011 20min Permalink
How the medical research industry came to almost exclusively use rodents for testing—and the danger that reliance now poses to human health.
Daniel Engber Slate Nov 2011 1h30min Permalink
A profile of Ahmet Ertegun: son of the Turkish ambassador, teenage collector of ‘race’ music, producer and pseudonymous songwriter for records by Ray Charles and Big Joe Turner, founder of Atlantic Records, confidante to Mick Jagger, impeccable dresser.
George W.S. Trow New Yorker May 1978 2h15min Permalink
A history of Grove Press and its publisher Barney Rosset.
Loren Glass Los Angeles Review of Books Oct 2011 50min Permalink