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Kat Stoeffel

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

Crime

How a Woman’s Rape at a Gay Nude Bar Sparked a Battle Over New Orleans’ Libertine Soul

In the gentrifying Bywater, the intertwined destinies of a legendary gay pool-bar and a woman who was drugged there.

Kat Stoeffel Talking Points Memo Dec 2014 10min Permalink

Politics

The Situation and the Story: Press Corps Parties While White House Makes History

On the last weekend of April 2011, two things happened in Washington D.C.: the annual White House Correspondents Dinner and the decision to raid Osama bin Laden’s compound. This is the story of how both transpired.

Foster Kamer, Kat Stoeffel The New York Observer May 2011 Permalink