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Bryan Burrough

Travel

Another Night to Remember

The sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise ship.

Bryan Burrough, Josephine McKenna Vanity Fair May 2012 50min Permalink

Arts Music

Mad About the Boys

The rise and fall of Lou Pearlman; blimp impresario, packager of boy bands like Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, molester, fraudster, and ultimately fugitive from justice.

Read more

Pearlman died in prison on Friday at 62.

Bryan Burrough Vanity Fair Nov 2007 45min Permalink

History Politics

Meet The Weather Underground’s Bomb Guru

What led to the 1970 explosion of a Greenwich Village townhouse, in which three members of the Weather Underground were killed, and what happened to the group after.

Excerpted from Days of Rage.

Bryan Burrough Vanity Fair Mar 2015 30min Permalink

The Mystery of Bartlett Lake

The wealthy widow of an East Bay newspaper baron, her cowboy fantasy man, and the drowning nobody could solve.

Bryan Burrough Vanity Fair Sep 1997 40min Permalink

Missing White Female

The disappearance of Natalee Holloway and the clash of cultures that followed.

Bryan Burrough Vanity Fair Jan 2006 40min Permalink

Best Article Crime

Nightmare on Elwood Avenue

A Barclays analyst leaves for a routine laser treatment and is never heard from again. Ten months later, authorities find her body under a concrete slab at the house of her doctor, who was in fact not a doctor at all.

Bryan Burrough Vanity Fair Jun 2004 30min Permalink