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Writers

Sabrina Rubin Erdely

A Rape on Campus

A brutal assault and the struggle for justice at the University of Virginia.

Note 12/5/14: Rolling Stone has stated that they now doubt details of the facts reported in "A Rape on Campus."

More information is available in T. Rees Shapiro's "U-Va. Fraternity to Rebut Claims of Gang Rape in Rolling Stone" from The Washington Post.

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Sabrina Rubin Erdely Rolling Stone Nov 2014 40min Permalink

Crime

The Transgender Crucible

CeCe McDonald, a homeless trans teen in Minneapolis, was charged with murder for defending herself. Then she became a folk hero.

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Previously: Sabrina Rubin Erdely on the Longform Podcast.

Sabrina Rubin Erdely Rolling Stone Jul 2014 25min Permalink

Crime

The Entrapment of Jesse Snodgrass

An undercover cop targets an autistic teen as a drug dealer.

Sabrina Rubin Erdely Rolling Stone Feb 2014 25min Permalink

The Poorest Rich Kids in the World

Georgia and Patterson Inman, 15-year-old twins, are the only living heirs to the $1 billion Duke tobacco fortune. They are also emotional wrecks, tortured by a hellacious childhood in which they were raised by drug addicts and left to fend for themselves in mansions across the country.

Sabrina Rubin Erdely Rolling Stone Aug 2013 40min Permalink

Crime

The Rape of Petty Officer Blumer

“It seemed like everyone gets raped and assaulted and no one does anything about it; it’s like a big rape cult.”

Sabrina Rubin Erdely Rolling Stone Feb 2013 30min Permalink

Crime

The Gangster Princess of Beverly Hills

The rise and fall of Lisette Lee, the self-proclaimed “Korean Paris Hilton,” who was busted for drug trafficking.

Sabrina Rubin Erdely Rolling Stone Aug 2012 30min Permalink

Best Article Crime

Who is the Boy in the Box?

A fingerprint expert spends decades investigating the death of an unidentified boy found in the woods in 1957.

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Sabrina Rubin Erdely Philadelphia Magazine Nov 2003 20min Permalink

One Town's War on Gay Teens

In Michele Bachmann’s home district evangelicals have pushed anti-gay policies to the school board. After a rash of suicides, teens are fighting back.

Sabrina Rubin Erdely Rolling Stone Feb 2012 30min Permalink

Tech

Kiki Kannibal: The Girl Who Played With Fire

The rise, fall and stubborn survival of a teenage Internet celebrity who discovered that the real world can be a very scary place.

Sabrina Rubin Erdely Rolling Stone Apr 2011 25min Permalink