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Murder

Crime

Man in the Window

Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., known as the Golden State Killer, is alleged to have murdered 13 people in California during the 1970s and 1980s. He also raped 50 women. He’ll stand trial for the murders only.

Paige St. John Los Angeles Times Jun 2019 30min Permalink

Crime Politics

The Undercover Fascist

A young British man was drawn to a white-supremacist group, until they started plotting to kill.

Ed Caesar New Yorker May 2019 Permalink

World

The Girl Who Chased Frogs

Lyra McKee’s last story.

Lyra McKee The Sunday Long Read May 2019 15min Permalink

Best Article Crime

The Single-Mom Murder

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

Sports

Jerrod Mustaf Is a Community Hero. Has Anyone Ever Googled Him?

The former NBA player is forever linked to the murder of his girlfriend.

Jon Wertheim Sports Illustrated Apr 2019 25min Permalink

Crime

Leave No Trace

On the lost-children stories of Australia.

Madeleine Watts The Believer Apr 2019 40min Permalink

Crime

The Body Pullers of Syria

Thousands of bodies are buried in shallow graves around Raqqa, Syria. One group is using Facebook and Google Earth to identify human remains and rebury them where they belong.

Kenneth R. Rosen Wired Apr 2019 15min Permalink

Crime World

Blurred Vision

Looking for answers after an ayahuasca murder in Peru.

Matthew Bremner Men's Journal Mar 2019 25min Permalink

Crime World

The Coffin Business Is Booming in Central America Due to Gang Violence

In El Salvador, Jucuapa is home to dozens of small factories that churn out what some locals call the “wooden pajamas.”

Matthew Bremner Bloomberg Businessweek Mar 2019 15min Permalink

Crime

Slippery When Wet

Angelika Graswald, also known as the Kayak Killer, went to jail for letting her fiancé drown in the Hudson River. Now she’s out on parole and looking to clear her name.

Kat Stoeffel Elle Feb 2019 20min Permalink

Best Article Crime World

A Murder Foretold

Rodrigo Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Guatemala, began, in the spring of 2009, to prophesy his own murder. The unraveling of a political conspiracy.

David Grann New Yorker Jan 2012 55min Permalink

Crime Tech

“Down the Rabbit Hole I Go”

Tomi Masters was a 23-year-old from Indiana who moved to California with dreams of making it big in the cannabis business. Then she met a hacker who introduced her to a dark new world of digital manipulation, suspicion, paranoia, and fear — one that swallowed her alive and left her floating in a river in the Philippines.

Davey Alba, Joseph Bernstein Buzzfeed Feb 2019 30min Permalink

Crime

The Circus Singer and the Godfather of Soul

Lost in the woods with James Brown’s ghost.

  1. She Says James Brown Raped Her

    She also says someone murdered him. Others share her suspicions.

  2. Was James Brown's Wife Murdered?

    An old notebook holds the clues.

  3. Fifteen Questions Surrounding James Brown's Death

    The Godfather of Soul has been dead for 12 years, but the questions have not been put to rest.

Thomas Lake CNN Feb 2019 40min Permalink

Best Article Crime

The Innocent Man

The decades-long saga of Michael Morton, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife.

  1. Part One

  2. Part Two

Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Dec 2012 1h50min Permalink

Best Article Crime

In the Face of Death

There was no doubt: Jeremy Gross had brutally murdered a convenience store clerk. All that was left to decide was his punishment. Death or life without parole? The story of a capital murder trial, as seen from the jury box.

Alex Kotlowitz New York Times Magazine Jul 2003 35min Permalink

Crime

Bloodstain Analysis Convinced a Jury She Stabbed Her 10-Year-Old Son. Now, Even Freedom Can’t Give Her Back Her Life.

How prosecutors used bloodstain-pattern analysis to convict an innocent woman of murdering her son.

Pamela Colloff ProPublica Dec 2018 20min Permalink

Crime

Blood Cries Out

On a Missouri farm, two families worked the land side by side, until a murder shattered their American dream.

Sean Patrick Cooper The Atavist Magazine Nov 2018 40min Permalink

Crime

An Affair. The Mob. A Murder.

“The caller reminded me I had written about her killing three decades earlier.”

Mary Jordan The Washington Post Dec 2018 20min Permalink

Crime

How Henrietta Schmerler Was Lost, Then Found

Almost 90 years ago, a young anthropologist was murdered in the field. The case still speaks volumes about sexual assault and how we explain it away.

Nell Gluckman The Chronicle of Higher Education Oct 2018 20min Permalink

Crime

How a Grieving Father Is Uncovering Mexico’s Mass Graves

Victims of Mexico’s drug violence often end up in unmarked graves. This man set out to find them.

Matthew Bremner Men’s Journal Nov 2018 15min Permalink

Crime Sports Travel

Lost Soul

The inspiring life and mysterious death of NBA player Bison Dele.

Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Oct 2013 40min Permalink

Crime Travel

The Stranger in the Shelter

Two people went for a hike on the Appalachian Trail. Only one made it out.

Earl Swift Outside Nov 2018 30min Permalink

Business Crime

The Unsolved Murder of an Unusual Billionaire

Last December, a Canadian pharmaceuticals executive and his wife were found strangled in their home. No one knows who did it or why, but everyone has a theory.

Matthew Campbell Businessweek Oct 2018 30min Permalink

Crime

Witness to the Killing

In many homicides, police believe they know the killer’s identity but can’t get a witness to cooperate.

Wesley Lowery, Dalton Bennett The Washington Post Oct 2018 15min Permalink

Best Article Crime Sports

The Boy They Couldn't Kill

Eighteen years ago, NFL wide receiver Rae Carruth conspired to kill the woman carrying his child. The woman, Cherica Adams, died. The child, Chancellor Lee Adams, did not.

Thomas Lake Sports Illustrated Sep 2012 25min Permalink

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