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Murder

Best Article Crime History

The Genesis of the Gang

On how a childhood spent in New York City’s tenements led a 15-year-old boy to be convicted of murder.

Jacob Riis The Atlantic Sep 1899 25min Permalink

Crime

The Trouble with Innocence

The long legal saga of Kerry Max Cook, who for almost 40 years fought to clear his name after being convicted of murder.

Michael Hall Texas Monthly Mar 2017 50min Permalink

Crime World

A Death in the Winelands

The annual tradition in the grape-growing country of South Africa’s Western Cape was that locals could gather fruit before it rotted on the vine. But this season produced a body amongst the rows.

Christopher Clark Roads and Kingdoms Mar 2017 20min Permalink

Crime

The Case of Oswaldo Martinez

Deaf, mute and undocumented, he was charged 12 years ago with a capital crime and has been in legal limbo ever since.

Paul Duggan Washington Post Mar 2017 20min 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

A Town Under Trial

Investigating a brutal double murder in a Kentucky military town.

Nick Tabor Oxford American Mar 2017 50min Permalink

Crime

My Mother’s Murder

“These, I now know, are the details of how my mother died..:”

Read more

Excerpted from Down City.

Leah Carroll New York Feb 2017 10min Permalink

Crime

The Preacher and the Sheriff

A young, shackled black man is shot to death — and the police say he killed himself. The resulting investigation has pitted the victim’s father against the most powerful man in New Iberia, La.

Nathaniel Rich New York Times Magazine Feb 2017 30min Permalink

Best Article Crime

James Bailey Is a Liar. Is He a Murderer?

A mysterious cache of documents could prove that a man serving a life sentence for homicide was framed by corrupt Alabama authorities—if the documents, and the man, can be believed.

Leon Neyfakh Slate Feb 2017 50min Permalink

Crime

The Unimaginable, Infamous Case of Pam Hupp

First her best friend was murdered. Then her mother fell from a balcony. And finally a man she had just met was found dead in her house.

Jeannette Cooperman St. Louis Magazine Jan 2017 50min Permalink

Crime

Murder on Union Hill Road

In April 2016, eight family members were slain in their homes in Ohio. Nine months later, the killer or killers are still on the loose, and the town has all but forgotten the crimes.

Kathleen Hale Hazlitt Jan 2017 25min Permalink

Crime Travel

Death on the Hippie Trail

Looking for answers in India after a seeker disappears and his guide commits suicide.

Ariel Sophia Bardi Roads and Kingdoms Jan 2017 10min Permalink

Crime

The Prisoner

In 1991, Edwin Debrow shot and killed a cab driver on the east side of San Antonio. He was twelve years old. Twenty-five years later, he is still in prison. Is that justice? And is there room for mercy?

Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Dec 2016 30min Permalink

Crime World

Awake in the Night

Mary Kuanen escaped the violence of Sudan only to live through her husband’s murder in suburban Denver. This is her life today.

Robert Sanchez 5280 Dec 2016 Permalink

Crime Sports

Interstate Killer

With the 428th pick in the 1974 NFL draft, the Green Bay Packers selected…one of the most violent killers in U.S. history.

L. Jon Wertheim Sports Illustrated Nov 2016 25min Permalink

Crime

Iphigenia in Forest Hills

Anatomy of a murder trial.

Janet Malcolm New Yorker May 2010 1h45min Permalink

Crime World

Who Murdered Giulio Regeni?

When the battered body of a Cambridge Ph.D. student was found outside Cairo, Egyptian police claimed he had been hit by a car. Then they said he was the victim of a robbery. Then they blamed a conspiracy against Egypt. But in a digital age, it’s harder than ever to get away with murder.

Alexander Stille The Guardian Oct 2016 20min Permalink

Crime Sports

Saint Will and the Man Who Shot Him

A former Saint and Super Bowl champion, Will Smith, was shot and killed by another player named Cardell Hayes. Their fatal collision highlights the fine line between triumph and tragedy in football and life in New Orleans.

Sean Flynn GQ Oct 2016 20min Permalink

Crime

Why America Will Never Stop Trying To Solve JonBenét Ramsey’s Murder

An examination of the continued fascination with the 6-year-old beauty queen, 20 years after her murder.

Sarah Marshall Buzzfeed Sep 2016 20min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "A Short History of Zaka the Zulu"

The downfall of a Jesuit school prefect.

Petina Gappah New Yorker Sep 2016 Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Evidence"

A detective, a mysterious murder, an unexpected confrontation.

Maryse Meijer The Collagist Aug 2016 Permalink

Crime

Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream

On Lucille Miller, who in San Bernadino in 1964 was convicted of burning her husband to death in his Volkswagen.

Joan Didion Saturday Evening Post Apr 1966 30min Permalink

Crime

Why Was Glen Race Guilty of Murder in America, but Not in Canada?

Unraveling the case of a Canadian man suffering from schizophrenia, put on trial for murder in New York, but found not criminally responsible in Nova Scotia.

Amy Dempsey The Toronto Star Aug 2016 35min Permalink

Crime Sports

After the Fall

On the mysterious death of a high school basketball star in Dallas.

T.J. Quinn, Simon Baumgart ESPN Jul 2016 25min Permalink

Crime

The Yosemite Horror

In the late 1990s, a serial killer found his victims in Yosemite National Park.

Joshua Hammer Outside Nov 1999 20min Permalink

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