The Vanishing
In the remote wilderness along northern British Columbia’s Highway 16, at least 18 women have gone missing over the past four decades. Is it the work of a serial killer or multiple offenders?
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In the remote wilderness along northern British Columbia’s Highway 16, at least 18 women have gone missing over the past four decades. Is it the work of a serial killer or multiple offenders?
In an elaborate FBI sting to expose corruption, four agents pose as futures traders in Chicago. The plan works–if you don’t count the hundreds of thousands in taxpayer dollars the agents lost in the process.
Eric N. Berg New York Times Jan 1989 10min Permalink
Last fall, when the deadliest blaze in America in a century blew through Northern California, thousands of people—including those in the tiny community of Helltown—were forced to flee. This is the story of four friends who stayed to fight.
Robert P. Baird GQ Apr 2019 30min Permalink
Over the span of four years, federal investigators estimated millions of dollars stolen from Mexican taxpayers passed through one South Texas bank. When they followed the trail, it led to real estate, cars, and airplanes. But in 2018, those investigations suddenly stopped.
Jason Buch Texas Observer May 2021 20min Permalink
Four men stood on the edge of the Shenzhen Health and Family Planning Commission, threatening to jump in protest. They referred to themselves as “China’s 21st century eunuchs,” damaged by medically-dubious surgeries.
RW McMorrow Vice May 2016 25min Permalink
Shirley Jackson wrote 17 books while raising four children — and she couldn’t have had a successful career without them.
Ruth Franklin New York Sep 2016 15min Permalink
Franklin Leonard’s anonymous survey has launched careers, recognized four of the past eight Best Picture winners, and pushed movie studios to think beyond sequels and action flicks.
Alex Wagner The Atlantic Jan 2017 20min Permalink
Javier Flores had hopes of a last-minute change in policy that would allow him to stay in Ohio with his wife and four kids, where he had a good job, a house, paid taxes. It didn’t come.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Oct 2014 Permalink
The Four Seasons restaurant rose to fame as a place to cut deals and be seen. Then its chauvinistic ways – and, specifically, those of its owner – caught up with it.
Robert Draper GQ Sep 2015 10min Permalink
In June, 1942, a German submarine dropped four young Nazi agents off on a Florida beach. Their mission was to blow up bridges, factories, and Jewish-owned department stores. Among them was Herbert Haupt, the 22-year-old son of a German-American family in Chicago.
Richard Cahan Chicago Magazine Feb 2002 Permalink
On September 11, 2001, three out of every four people who worked for Howard Lutnick died. The story of a recovery.
Susanne Craig New York Times Sep 2011 Permalink
When the Feds sought the death penalty for four African-American drug dealers in Baltimore, the accused found a defense in the unlikeliest of places: the legal theories of white supremacists.
Kevin Carey Washington Monthly May 2008 25min Permalink
“The government calls it “Operation Open Market,” a four-year investigation resulting, so far, in four federal grand jury indictments against 55 defendants in 10 countries, facing a cumulative millennium of prison time. What many of those alleged scammers, carders, thieves, and racketeers have in common is one simple mistake: They bought their high-quality fake IDs from a sophisticated driver’s license counterfeiting factory secretly established, owned, and operated by the United States Secret Service.”
Kevin Poulson Wired Jul 2013 15min Permalink
The Sinaloa cartel was flooding cocaine across the border. The DEA was listening. A four-part series based on hundreds of pages of transcripts from intercepted calls, court testimony, and investigative reports.
Richard Marosi The Los Angeles Times Jul 2011 35min 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
Terrell ‘T.O’ Owens is 38, currently unemployed, nearly bankrupt after losing his shirt in a electronic-bingo entertainment complex development plan gone bust, father of four children (one of which he has never met), and bowls frequently.
Nancy Hass GQ Jan 2012 15min Permalink
First came seizures. Then he began forgetting words. By age four he could barely walk. The story of the race to save a child from a genetic death sentence.
Amitha Kalaichandran The Atavist Magazine Dec 2017 35min Permalink
In 2010, an art dealer claimed he hid a chest of gold and jewels in the Rockies. At least four people have died looking for it.
David Kushner Wired Jul 2018 25min Permalink
An interesting side effect of reading the report is to feel that anyone who claims to have understood its arguments, purposes, and consequences within twenty-four or forty-eight hours of encountering it is likely untrustworthy.
Mark Greif n+1 Jul 2019 Permalink
On Leon Botstein and the future of Bard College, which he has run for four decades.
Alice Gregory New Yorker Sep 2014 25min Permalink
One Marine battalion has had four members kill themselves in just the last year. The soldiers have jury-rigged a system of Facebook notifications and Google spreadsheets to try to stop it.
Dave Philipps New York Times Sep 2015 25min Permalink
With up to four million World War II soldiers considered missing in action on the Eastern front, a group of Russian volunteers vows to unearth, identify and properly bury their remains.
An annotated transcript:
MR. SEALE: [The marshals are carrying him through the door to the lockup.] I still want an immediate trial. You can’t call it a mistrial. I’m put in jail for four years for nothing? I want my coat.
Jason Epstein New York Review of Books Dec 1969 1h5min Permalink
The Tiwonge Chimbalanga, a transgender woman who was imprisoned four years ago in Malawi for getting engaged to a man. Pardoned and freed, she now scrapes by living in exile in South Africa.
Mark Gevisser The Guardian Nov 2014 20min Permalink
The number one item confiscated by U.S. customs for four years in a row: fake shoes. As brands continue to crack down, counterfeiters continue to up their game.