The Murder of Tayshana "Chicken" Murphy
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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
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
Flordelis became famous as a gospel singer, a pastor, and a politician. Then her husband was killed.
Jon Lee Anderson New Yorker Jun 2021 25min Permalink
All told, the military acknowledged this summer, 14 soldiers from the base have been charged or convicted in at least 11 slayings since 2005 — the largest killing spree involving soldiers at a single U.S. military installation in modern history.
L. Smith Rolling Stone Nov 2009 30min Permalink
How a town of 29,000 on the Hudson River came to be “one of the most dangerous four-mile stretches in the northeastern United States.”
Patrick Radden Keefe New York Sep 2011 20min Permalink
On the last day of their junior year at Harvard, one roommate kills the other, then hangs herself. The press descends. A year later, a reporter searches for the real story.
Melanie Thernstrom New Yorker Jun 1996 35min Permalink
In April 2016, eight family members were slain in their homes in Ohio. Nine months later, the killer or killers are still on the loose, and the town has all but forgotten the crimes.
Kathleen Hale Hazlitt Jan 2017 25min Permalink
Thirty years ago, Elizabeth Haysom and Jens Soering fell in love as freshman at the University of Virginia. It was the same year Haysom’s parents were brutally murdered. Each says the other committed the crime.
Nathan Heller New Yorker Nov 2015 45min Permalink
A man named Tristan Beaudette was killed while camping in Malibu Creek State Park with his two young daughters. For residents, it became a true crime sensation. But for his family, it was something very different.
Zach Baron GQ Jun 2019 40min Permalink
It’s tempting to think Marco McMillian was killed because of his race, his sexuality, or because he was running for mayor. The truth is more elusive.
Ben Terris National Journal Mar 2013 15min Permalink
Nancy and Frank Howard were happily married for three decades. Then he fell in love with another woman, embezzled $30 million, and hired a parade of inept hit men to kill his wife.
Michael J. Mooney D Magazine Nov 2014 25min Permalink
After his wife disappears, Hans Reiser’s defense contacts a Wired writer who they believe can help explain the world of groundbreaking code, video games, and sci-fi that defines Reiser’s existence.
Joshua Davis Wired Jun 2007 20min Permalink
The diner manager told the cook not to prepare the poached eggs a woman had ordered. The next day, the cook killed the manager. They had worked together amicably for 20 years.
Lisa Davis SF Weekly Oct 1997 20min Permalink
Last December, a Canadian pharmaceuticals executive and his wife were found strangled in their home. No one knows who did it or why, but everyone has a theory.
Matthew Campbell Businessweek Oct 2018 30min Permalink