The Rise and Fall of the Bombshell Bandit
How a 24-year-old nurse discovered Vegas, high-stakes gambling, and serial bank robbery.
Longform Best of 2015
We recommended 1,453 articles this year, from 1,210 writers and 360 publications. They were read nearly 20 million times.
These were our favorites.
Crime
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Jennifer Pan’s Revenge
Her parents wanted Jennifer to be successful. The pressure may have led her to plot their murder.
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A College Romance That Led to Murder
Thirty years ago, Elizabeth Haysom and Jens Soering fell in love as freshman at the University of Virginia. It was the same year Haysom’s parents were brutally murdered. Each says the other committed the crime.
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Broken Boys, Thieves, Killers, and Now Escapees
The truncated, violent lives of Richard Matt and David Sweat before their prison escape.
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American Horror Story: The Cecil Hotel
She was a Canadian student whose travels brought her to the cheap hotel on Skid Row. The only clue in her disappearance was a strange elevator video in which she peeks and then gestures with her hands down an unseen hallway.
