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Sarah Green escaped her mother’s cult 22 years ago. She still thinks about those she left behind.
Harrison Hill The Cut Jun 2021 30min Permalink
In 2015, Tom Turcich set out to circumnavigate the globe by foot. He has been walking ever since.
An ocean race from the Olympic Peninsula to Alaska, with no motors allowed.
Abe Streep Outside Oct 2015 20min Permalink
The singer-songwriter tries to hold down an uncertain moment.
Jia Tolentino New Yorker Sep 2021 20min Permalink
Biologists are rescuing baby sharks and skates from recently caught females, giving the unborn a chance at survival.
Claudia Geib Hakai Magazine Oct 2021 15min Permalink
A teenager murdered by her best friends, a notorious cold case suddenly heats up and Diana Athill, 96, faces the end — the most-read articles this week in the new Longform App, available free for iPhone and iPad.
The murder of a West Virginia teenager by her two best friends.
Under the cover of curing addicts, they beat and brainwashed their charges in basements across California. When a cult deprogrammer crossed them, he found a rattlesnake in his mailbox.
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 15min
The author, age 96, on the end.
Diana Athill The Guardian 10min
Sixteen-year-old Kalief Browder was accused of taking a backpack. He spent the next three years on Rikers Island, without trial.
On the shared life of Tatiana and Krista Hogan, four years old and joined at the head.
Susan Dominus New York Times Magazine May 2011 30min
A comprehensive history of the case against the Menendez brothers.
Dominick Dunne Vanity Fair Oct 1990 55min
In the late 60s and early 70s, Austin Wiggins forced his three teenage daughters to play their strange music at New Hampshire ballrooms, firm in the belief that they would become stars. They did not.
Susan Orlean New Yorker Sep 1999 20min
On the perspective-bending art of identical twins Trevor and Ryan Oakes.
Lawrence Weschler VQR Apr 2009 25min
How three brothers from Chicago found tremendous success in their respective fields—Rahm in politics, Ari in Hollywood and Zeke in medicine—by their mid-30s.
Elisabeth Bumiller New York Times Jun 1997 15min
Oct 1990 – May 2011 Permalink
Three years after skipping town, Bulger was frustrating investigators and endearing himself to neighbors all over the country. He made a particularly good impression with Gautreaux family in Grand Isle, Louisiana, where he spent the winter in 1995 and 1996 with the girlfriend who led to his eventual capture in 2011.
Shelley Murphy Boston Globe Jan 1998 15min
A view of the Barefoot Bandit from his hometown.
Can a writer disappear in America for a month with a $5,000 bounty on his head? Ratliff tried to find out, and found himself with an unnerving amount of free time.
Evan Ratliff Wired Nov 2009 35min
The story of how Benjamin Holmes, wanted by the FBI for arson, spent two decades hiding in plain sight. (Also the story of how, when Holmes finally came back to see his wife, she shot him.)
Melanie Thernstrom New York Times Magzine Dec 2000 20min
On the run in Canada with Randy Quaid and his wife Evi as the try to evade “the Hollywood Star Whackers.”
Nancy Jo Sales Vanity Fair Jan 2011 25min
A visit to the French hideaway of Ira Einhorn, co-founder of Earth Day, who had avoided arrest on murder charges for nearly 20 years. Einhorn was extradited to the United States in 2001 and is now serving a life sentence.
Russ Baker Esquire Dec 1999 35min
Jan 1998 – Jan 2011 Permalink
He’s the first kid to be featured on the side of a milk carton—and his father thinks he knows who abducted him from a New York City street in 1979.
Lisa R. Cohen New York May 2009 15min
From “comely heiress” to “armed terrorist,” an overview of the Patty Hearst kidnapping published weeks after her debut as a bank robber.
Time Apr 1974
Meet Rick Strawn, the man who’ll abduct your problem child for a fee.
Nadya Labi Legal Affairs Jul 2004 30min
Rohde was kidnapped while reporting in Afghanistan. His story—in five parts—in his own words.
David Rohde New York Times Oct 2009 20min
Elizabeth Smart, age 14, was kidnapped from her bedroom in a Salt Lake City suburb. She was found nine months later with an itinerant preacher and his wife. Theories on why it took so long.
Scott Carrier Mother Jones Dec 2010 25min
Several American men working in the oil industry are kidnapped on the job in Ecuador.
Did Bruno Hauptmann really kidnap the Lindbergh baby? An overview of the case amidst a bunch of arguing scholars.
Francis Russell New York Review of Books Nov 1987 25min
Apr 1974 – Dec 2010 Permalink
In 1916, a down-on-its-luck traveling circus hung its star elephant. The crime? Murder.
Joan Vannorsdall Schroeder Blue Ridge Country May 1997 10min
The similarities between the reactions of elephants and humans to childhood trauma.
Charles Siebert New York Times Oct 2006
On imperialism, doubt and a day in colonial Burma.
George Orwell New Writing May 1936 15min
Is it ever OK for zoos to display elephants? And if not, what should keepers do with them?
Amy Dempsey The Toronto Star Jan 2013 15min
Nearly everything you could want to know about elephants, plus the metaphysical questions the animals raise about our own consciousness.
Caitrin Nicol The New Atlantis Jan 2013 1h35min
Riding rescued elephants through a wildlife park.
Paul Theroux Smithsonian Apr 2013 2h45min
May 1936 – Apr 2013 Permalink
On Elizabeth Warren’s shadow candidacy.
Ryan Lizza New Yorker May 2015 35min Permalink
A survivor’s frightening account.
Paige Williams Atlanta Magazine Jan 2000 20min Permalink
A Kenyan runner loses himself in Alaska.
Seth Wickersham ESPN May 2012 20min Permalink
Experiments in making others feel good.
Tom Chiarella Esquire Sep 2009 10min Permalink
On women who take up space.
Carmen Maria Machado Guernica Feb 2017 15min Permalink
An obituary.
Adam Platt New York Jun 2017 15min Permalink
How animals see.
Ed Yong National Geographic Feb 2016 20min Permalink
A profile.
Tom Piazza Oxford American Oct 2018 30min Permalink
How UFO culture took over America.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone Aug 2020 40min Permalink
How COVID-19 ravaged Minnesota.
Reid Forgrave Star Tribune Oct 2020 50min Permalink
What happens when we talk to animals?
Lauren Markham Harper's Mar 2021 20min Permalink
How to lose weight while barely moving.
Aishwarya Kumar ESPN Sep 2019 25min Permalink
Twenty years ago, ‘Grand Theft Auto III’ set a new standard for open-world video games. The titles it inspired have grown bigger and busier, but it takes more than massive maps to give gamers the freedom they felt on their first trip to 3-D Liberty City.
Jeremy Gordon The Ringer Oct 2021 25min Permalink
On Michael Jackson’s talent.
John Jeremiah Sullivan GQ Sep 2009 20min Permalink
On Erdogan’s struggle for power.
Dexter Filkins New Yorker Mar 2012 40min Permalink