Murder by Text
On the brutal killing of a high school girl in British Columbia.
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On the brutal killing of a high school girl in British Columbia.
David Kushner Vanity Fair Oct 2011 20min Permalink
Death, ISIS, and tourism in the Atlas Mountains.
Rachel Monroe Outside Jul 2019 15min Permalink
Trevell Coleman wasn’t sure whether he’d killed a man. But after 17 years, he needed to find out.
Jennifer Gonnerman New York Nov 2012 20min Permalink
In 1960, beer heir Adolph Coors III was kidnapped and murdered. A look back at the crime and the man who committed it.
Robert Sanchez 5280 Feb 2009 25min Permalink
The complicated relationship between Gawker founder Nick Denton and his arch-nemesis investorr Peter Thiel.
David Margolick Vanity Fair Nov 2016 20min Permalink
The inside story of the first homicide in America’s most secure prison.
Chris Outcalt The Atavist Magazine Apr 2018 30min Permalink
Unraveling the case of a Canadian man suffering from schizophrenia, put on trial for murder in New York, but found not criminally responsible in Nova Scotia.
Amy Dempsey The Toronto Star Aug 2016 35min Permalink
She moved to Cape Cod to escape the glitzy Manhattan world she born into. The only witness to her murder was her 2-year-old daughter. Everyone she knew, it seemed, was a suspect.
Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Feb 2002 25min Permalink
In 1963, a Black politician named Ben Lewis was shot to death in Chicago. Clues suggest the murder was a professional hit. Decades later, it remains no accident authorities never solved the crime.
Mick Dumke ProPublica Feb 2021 30min Permalink
Today, Robert Dowlut is the National Rifle Association’s top lawyer. Fifty years ago, he was convicted of murdering a woman with a handgun.
Dave Gilson Mother Jones Jul 2014 30min Permalink
Two reports, twelve years apart, on the killing of a high school cheerleader in a small Oklahoma town and its aftermath.
How the body of 16-year-old Heather Rich ended up in Belknap Creek and how the cops found the boys who put it there.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Jul 2002 – Mar 2014 1h5min Permalink
The coldest of cases: During 1884-85, seven women and one man were brutally murdered in Austin, Texas.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jul 2000 20min Permalink
Why a Nova Scotia community is still searching for the killer of a beloved farmer thirty years later.
Lindsay Jones The Walrus Jun 2020 20min Permalink
After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work that cracked the case and brought down the government.
Ben Taub New Yorker Dec 2020 Permalink
" I was twenty-six years old and an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America, and that’s all that most people knew about me. But beneath the surface, I was full of secrets..."
Cat Marnell New York Jan 2017 15min Permalink
An investigation into rising crime rates in small American cities. Is a lauded antipoverty program to blame?
Hanna Rosin The Atlantic Jul 2008 35min Permalink
On H.H. Holmes “an old hand at corpse manipulation and insurance fraud,” who built a house of death in 1890s Chicago.
John Bartlow Martin Harper's Dec 1943 Permalink
Twenty-five years later, the deaths of a couple on the Trail remain shocking – and mostly unexplained.
Earl Swift Outside Sep 2015 30min Permalink
Tommy Gilbert seemed like your average Beekman Place ne’er-do-well son—until his dad turned up dead.
Benjamin Wallace Vanity Fair Mar 2015 20min Permalink
“These, I now know, are the details of how my mother died..:”
Leah Carroll New York Feb 2017 10min Permalink
Everyone knows who killed Rodolfo Illanes. So why is his death such a mystery?
Monte Reel Bloomberg Business Mar 2017 20min Permalink
One year ago the journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and never walked out. This is what happened.
Evan Ratliff Insider Oct 2019 45min Permalink
An inquiry into the assassination of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister.
Owen Bennett-Jones London Review of Books Dec 2012 25min Permalink
Amidst the football-obsessed culture of small-town Christian colleges in Kansas, a player is killed at a party.
Rolf Potts Sports Illustrated Nov 2012 35min Permalink
In a shantytown near Johannesburg, an angry mob committed a horrifying crime that was caught on video.
Barry Bearak New York Times Magazine Jun 2011 30min Permalink