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The rise of the “wildly lucrative” herbal incense business, and the downfall of one company.
Chris Sweeney New Times Broward-Palm Beach Sep 2012 10min Permalink
“Oh God, everybody hates Jane Austen. They don’t have the balls to say it.”
Isaac Chotiner The New Republic Dec 2012 15min Permalink
The most prolific duo in history, the Texas woman who robbed banks dressed a pudgy cowboy, and the story that inspired Dog Day Afternon — a collection of our favorite stories about bank robberies.
Ray Bowman and Billy Kirkpatrick, who began boosting together as teenagers, were arrested only twice during their prolific partnership. The first time was for stealing 38 records from a K-Mart in 1974. The second arrest came in 1997. In between, Bowman and Kirkpatrick robbed 27 banks, including the single biggest haul in United States history: $4,461,681 from the Seafirst Bank in suburban Tacoma.
Alex Kotlowitz New Yorker Jul 2002 20min
Peggy Jo Tallas, a soft-spoken bachelorette, spent much of her adult life doing two things: taking care of her ailing mother and robbing bank after bank dressed as a pudgy, bearded cowboy.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Nov 2005 35min
Anthony Curcio was the pride of his small town in Washington state. A former football star, he had married his high-school sweetheart and was making good money flipping houses. Then the real estate market crashed, and Curcio turned his obsessive attention to planning an ingenious heist involving Craigslist, an inner tube, and $400,000.
David Kushner GQ Oct 2010
The robbers had a helicopter, explosives, and inside information on a $150 million cash repository. But the police were on to them—sort of.
Evan Ratliff Atavist Magazine Jan 2011 45min
A young man named John Wojtowicz, desperate to provide for his children and finance his lover’s sex-change surgery, attempts to rob a Chase branch in Brooklyn. The bank is surrounded almost immediately and a 14-hour standoff ensues. The story inspired Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon.
P. F. Kluge, Thomas Moore LIFE Sep 1972
In 2003, a man named Brian Wells robbed a bank in Erie, Pa., with a bomb around his neck. Shortly thereafter, with Wells surrounded by cops and claiming he’d been forced to commit the crime, the bomb detonated, leaving authorities to piece together who had put it there. Eight years later, they’re still not entirely sure who was behind this bizarre crime, or even the true motive.
Rich Schapiro Wired Dec 2010 20min
How a 24-year-old nurse discovered Vegas, high-stakes gambling, and serial bank robbery.
Jeff Maysh BBC Apr 2015 25min
Sep 1972 – Apr 2015 Permalink
Three Dallas prostitutes were found dead in as many months. Charles Albright might be the last person you’d suspect—unless you knew about his unique, lifelong obsession.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly May 1993
How two love-struck, type-A high-schoolers almost got away with murder.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Dec 1996 40min
A charming assistant funeral home director in a small Texas town murders a wealthy widow, keeps her in a freezer for months, finally gets caught, and still has the town’s sympathy as his case goes to trial.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jan 1998 20min
Lance Butterfield was the captain of the football team, had a 4.0 GPA and a girl he loved. It wasn’t enough for his dad. And then his dad became too much for him.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jun 1998 30min
Peggy Jo Tallas, a soft-spoken bachelorette, spent much of her adult life doing two things: taking care of her ailing mother and robbing bank after bank dressed as a pudgy, bearded cowboy.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Nov 2005 35min
The story of Dean Corll and his accomplices, who killed more than 20 teenage boys in the Heights neighborhood of Houston in the early 1970s, and the families searching for their missing sons.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Apr 2011
May 1993 – Apr 2011 Permalink
William Sparkman Jr., a census worker, was found hanging from a tree in rural Kentucky. He was naked, hands bound, with the letters “FED” written across his chest. Inside the investigation into how – and why – he died.
Rich Schapiro The Atlantic Mar 2013 35min Permalink
Montaous Walton couldn’t throw, catch or hit. But he wanted to be a ballplayer. And with the help of the internet, the media, and an ambitious young agent, that’s what he briefly became.
Brandon Sneed SB Nation Jun 2013 25min Permalink
An informational interview during which the author is advised, “Find a rich husband, and then you can work at whatever you like on the side, and it doesn’t matter, because you already have money.”
Mallory Ortberg The Toast May 2014 10min Permalink
If you wanted a divorce in the late 1800s, you had to move to South Dakota. Even if you were the niece of John Jacob Astor III.
April White The Atavist Magazine Dec 2015 35min Permalink
A look at the brave new world of privatized postal services, “optimized to deliver the maximum amount of unwanted mail at the minimum cost to businesses.”
James Meek London Review of Books Apr 2011 35min Permalink
A black 16-year-old lights a white, agender 18-year-old’s skirt on fire while riding the bus. Is it a hate crime? And what’s the appropriate punishment?
Dashka Slater New York Times Magazine Jan 2015 25min Permalink
Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, denies that he was ever in the IRA. The murder of Jean McConville threatened to expose him as a liar.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Mar 2015 1h5min Permalink
A profile of Judy Clarke, the publicity-shy anti-death-penalty attorney, who has defended the Unabomber, Susan Smith, and Jared Loughner.
Mark Bowden Vanity Fair Mar 2005 25min Permalink
A statistics-based argument that drug pricing, not drug use or law enformencement, is the only way to predict swings in violent crime rates.
Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones The Atlantic Nov 2011 10min Permalink
The strange saga of Sarah Phillips, who went from message board commenter to ESPN gambling columnist and hid her identity from editors, scamming many of the people she met along the way.
John Koblin Deadspin May 2012 25min Permalink
How a Harvard-educated neurologist, a courtly southern gentlemen, and a Hollywood rent boy ended up at the center of an international manhunt that spread from the staid business community of Columbus, Ohio to the coffee shops of Amsterdam.
Ann Louise Bardach Vanity Fair Oct 1989 2h15min Permalink
The story of a Ponzi schemer who became the mark.
Guy Lawson New York Jul 2012 20min Permalink
The struggle behind the making of Terence Malick’s first movie in twenty years and the two producers who, depending on your source, either made it possible or nearly ruined it.
Peter Biskind Vanity Fair Aug 1999 20min Permalink
In the chaotic days before the Berlin Wall fell, the East German secret police shredded 45 million pages. Fifteen years later, a team of computer scientists figured out how to put it all back together.
Andrew Curry Wired Jan 2008 15min Permalink
On the cloak and dagger dealings between The New York Times and WikiLeaks. Adapted from Executive Editor Bill Keller’s forthcoming ebook, Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy: Complete and Updated Coverage from The New York Times.
Bill Keller New York Times Jan 2011 Permalink
On gray.
Kyle Chayka Racked Mar 2017 15min Permalink
How Paul Tollett gets the world’s biggest acts to perform in the California desert.
John Seabrook New Yorker Apr 2017 25min Permalink
Two decades later, a traffic stop on a country road is still teaching police officers about deadly force – and the cost of hesitation. Part 1 of “The Trigger and the Choice,” a 3-part series.
Thomas Lake CNN Aug 2017 20min Permalink
To understand the rise of Donald Trump is to understand his mentor, Roy Cohn — and the New York City establishment that aided and abetted him.
Frank Rich New York Apr 2018 30min Permalink
“The echoing horror of slavery cuts both ways. We are often afraid to say what we know is true. The South is disaster and it is also miracle.”
Imani Perry Harper's Jul 2018 20min Permalink
Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico’s “monkey island.” The surviving primates could help scientists learn about the psychological response to traumatizing events.
Luke Dittrich New York Times Magazine May 2019 30min Permalink