
A Murder Foretold
Rodrigo Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Guatemala, began, in the spring of 2009, to prophesy his own murder. The unraveling of a political conspiracy.
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Rodrigo Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Guatemala, began, in the spring of 2009, to prophesy his own murder. The unraveling of a political conspiracy.
David Grann New Yorker Jan 2012 55min Permalink
Nearly 70 years after Bugsy Siegel’s unsolved murder in Beverly Hills, a family finally comes forward: they know who did it.
Amy Wallace Los Angeles Sep 2014 15min Permalink
The jury made a mistake when it convicted Abdul Raheem.
David S. Bernstein Boston Phoenix Apr 2005 Permalink
The stolen youth of Lorenzo Montoya.
Alan Prendergast Westword Jul 2016 30min 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
On the death of a high school basketball star in New York City.
Jonathan Abrams Grantland Nov 2011 20min Permalink
A cop kills a fellow officer during a drug bust and claims it was an accident. Others suspect that it wasn’t.
Sean Flynn GQ Aug 2008 35min Permalink
DNA evidence exonerated six convicted killers. So why do some of them recall the crime so clearly?
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Jun 2017 35min Permalink
How the killing of a 20-year-old woman upended a nation’s sense of itself.
Xan Rice The Guardian Apr 2018 20min Permalink
“The caller reminded me I had written about her killing three decades earlier.”
Mary Jordan The Washington Post Dec 2018 20min Permalink
An investigation into the killing of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Engen Tham, Jacob Borg, Christoph Giesen, Stephen Grey Reuters Mar 2021 30min Permalink
A respected professor shot dead through the mansion window. A quaint New England town shaken to its core. One all-consuming obsession in Whip City.
Deborah Halber Truly*Adventurous Jul 2021 25min 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
In May 2018, schoolgirl Ana Kriégel was lured from her home, brought to an abandoned house, and murdered. A year later two 14-year-old boys were found guilty of her killing, becoming the youngest people in the history of Ireland to be convicted of murder.
Conor Gallagher The Irish Times Jun 2019 1h10min Permalink
Two sisters help detectives solve a decades-old cold case by identifying their father as their mother’s killer.
Michael E. Miller The Miami New Times May 2013 20min Permalink
How an overzealous forensic pathologist and his odontologist sidekick put innocent Mississippi residents behind bars – and let killers run free.
Radley Balko The Huffington Post Jan 2013 30min Permalink
How a series of lies and an incompetent lawyer led to a Florida woman’s wrongful conviction.
Terrence McCoy New Times Broward-Palm Beach Sep 2013 20min Permalink
The ongoing question of forgiveness in Charleston, where Dylann Roof opened fire in a church on June 17th.
David Von Drehle Time Nov 2015 1h Permalink
In dozens of criminal trials, prosecutors have put the same gun in the hands of more than one defendant.
Ken Armstrong New Yorker Nov 2017 20min Permalink
Two men were sent to prison for killing a French tourist in Manhattan in 1987. Can they overturn their convictions?
Jennifer Gonnerman New Yorker Feb 2020 20min Permalink