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The author visits City of Refuge in Pahokee, Florida, a community of more than 100 registered sex offenders.
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The author visits City of Refuge in Pahokee, Florida, a community of more than 100 registered sex offenders.
Revisiting the 6200 block of Osage Avenue.
Gene Demby NPR May 2015 15min Permalink
The Cleveland police are still adamant that they did nothing wrong in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.
Connie Schultz Politico Magazine Mar 2015 15min Permalink
Investigating the death of Rikers Island women’s jail inmate Jackie Caquias, and other abuses of women prisoners’ access to medical care.
Erika Eichelberger The Intercept May 2015 15min Permalink
On the death of a high school basketball star in New York City.
Jonathan Abrams Grantland Nov 2011 20min Permalink
Prosecutors have spun creative theories to explain away scientific evidence when DNA tests haven’t fit their version of events.
Andrew Martin New York Times Magazine Nov 2011 25min Permalink
George Wright spent more time on the lam, 41 years, than any fugitive in American history. Last fall, after being caught in a rural Portuguese village, he told his story.
Michael Finkel GQ May 2012 35min 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
How a convicted sexual predator emptied the bank accounts and ruined the lives of several women from behind bars.
Caleb Hannan Seattle Weekly Jan 2011 Permalink
Nitrous balloon vendors clash in the parking lots of jam band festival across the Northeast.
John H. Tucker Village Voice Jul 2010 20min 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 lifelong obsession.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly May 1993 50min Permalink
A classified Guantánamo Bay interrogation log reveals the techniques used on Mohammed al-Qahtani, the so-called 20th 9/11 hijacker.
Searching for (and easily finding) Mark Augustus Landis, the man behind the “longest, strangest forgery spree the American art world has known.”
John Gapper The Financial Times Jan 2011 15min Permalink
The story of Lisa S. Davis and Lisa S. Davis.
Lisa S. Davis The Guardian Apr 2017 15min Permalink
From 2009 to 2014, police in Florida shot 827 people. Many of these incidents were avoidable and unnecessary.
Ben Montgomery Tampa Bay Times Apr 2017 30min Permalink
Did a school for spies get conned by a fake spook who molested students?
Ian Shapira Washington Post May 2017 10min Permalink
Ray Spencer went to jail for 20 years for molesting his kids. Then they started to question their memories.
Maurice Chammah The Marshall Project, Esquire May 2017 25min Permalink
What happened after an unarmed 18-year-old named Ramarley Graham was shot and killed by a New York City police officer.
James D. Walsh New York Jun 2017 25min Permalink
How Vivitrol, a little-known anti-addiction drug, became the mandatory treatment for opioid abuse in drug courts across the United States.
Alec MacGillis ProPublica Jun 2017 30min Permalink
F. Lee Bailey is disbarred, penniless, and giving business advice out of his girlfriend’s salon.
Andrew Goldman Town & Country Jul 2017 15min Permalink
ShyShy Pate has been missing for 19 years, but you’ve probably never heard of her.
Jessica Testa Buzzfeed Jul 2017 20min Permalink
The answer may lie with the country’s powerful security agencies.
Declan Walsh New York Times Magazine Aug 2017 30min Permalink
What the Toronto Police found was even worse than they’d expected.
Robert Kolker The Walrus Aug 2017 25min Permalink
Tim Piazza fought for his life for 12 hours before his Beta Theta Pi brothers called 911. By then, it was too late.
Caitlin Flanagan The Atlantic Oct 2017 40min Permalink
The town welcomed hundreds of Somali refugees. Then a private militia decided to go “ISIS hunting.”
Jessica Pressler New York Dec 2017 30min Permalink