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David Grann

Best Article Crime

Trial By Fire

The arson case that may have led Texas to execute an innocent man.

David Grann New Yorker Sep 2009 1h5min Permalink

Best Article Crime

The Chameleon

The many lives of imposter Frédéric Bourdin.

David Grann New Yorker Aug 2008 45min 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

Best Article Science

The Squid Hunter

An obsessive marine biologist gambles his savings, family, and sanity on a quest to be the first to capture a live giant squid.

David Grann New Yorker May 2004 45min Permalink

The White Darkness

How a solitary trek across Antarctica became a singular test of character.

David Grann New Yorker Feb 2017 1h25min Permalink

Best Article Crime

Mysterious Circumstances

The world’s foremost Sherlock Holmes expert found dead in a locked room, leaving no note.

David Grann New Yorker Dec 2004 50min Permalink

Best Article

Giving "The Devil" His Due

Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, the founder of a barbaric Haitian paramilitary group, vanished from Port-au-Prince and resurfaced as a real estate agent in Queens.

David Grann The Atlantic Jun 2001 1h Permalink

Best Article Crime

Crimetown, U.S.A.

The city that fell in love with the mob.

David Grann The New Republic Jul 2000 30min Permalink

Crime History

The Marked Woman

After oil was discovered on their Oklahoma reservation, the Osage Nation became the richest people per capita in the world. Then they began to be murdered off mysteriously. In 1924 the nascent FBI sent a team of undercover agents, including a Native American, to the Osage reservation.

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Excerpted from Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.

David Grann New Yorker Mar 2017 15min Permalink

Best Article

The Yankee Comandante

The story of William Morgan: American, wanderer, Cuban revolutionary.

David Grann New Yorker May 2012 1h25min Permalink

History

Which Way Did He Run?

Firefighter Kevin Shea, one of the first responders on September 11, 2001, was “the survivor who couldn’t remember what no one else could forget.”

David Grann New York Times Magazine Jan 2002 25min Permalink

World Travel

The Lost City of Z

A mystery embedded deep within the Amazon.

David Grann New Yorker Sep 2005 1h20min Permalink

Arts Crime Movies & TV

To Die For

Robert Blake, Bonny Lee Bakley, and the misery of celebrity.

David Grann The New Republic Aug 2001 20min Permalink

Prosecutorial Indiscretion

The story of Donald Smaltz, an independent prosecutor run amok.

David Grann The New Republic Feb 1998 20min Permalink

Sports

Baseball Without Metaphor

A profile of Barry Bonds published as the steroid talk intensified.

David Grann New York Times Magazine Sep 2002 30min Permalink

Arts Crime

The Mark of a Masterpiece

The man who keeps finding famous fingerprints on uncelebrated works of art.

David Grann New Yorker Apr 2011 1h5min Permalink