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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
Today, Robert Dowlut is the National Rifle Association’s top lawyer. Fifty years ago, he was convicted of murdering a woman with a handgun.
Dave Gilson Mother Jones Jul 2014 30min Permalink
Two reports, twelve years apart, on the killing of a high school cheerleader in a small Oklahoma town and its aftermath.
How the body of 16-year-old Heather Rich ended up in Belknap Creek and how the cops found the boys who put it there.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Jul 2002 – Mar 2014 1h5min Permalink
The coldest of cases: During 1884-85, seven women and one man were brutally murdered in Austin, Texas.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jul 2000 20min Permalink
Why a Nova Scotia community is still searching for the killer of a beloved farmer thirty years later.
Lindsay Jones The Walrus Jun 2020 20min Permalink
After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work that cracked the case and brought down the government.
Ben Taub New Yorker Dec 2020 Permalink
" I was twenty-six years old and an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America, and that’s all that most people knew about me. But beneath the surface, I was full of secrets..."
Cat Marnell New York Jan 2017 15min Permalink
An investigation into rising crime rates in small American cities. Is a lauded antipoverty program to blame?
Hanna Rosin The Atlantic Jul 2008 35min Permalink
On H.H. Holmes “an old hand at corpse manipulation and insurance fraud,” who built a house of death in 1890s Chicago.
John Bartlow Martin Harper's Dec 1943 Permalink
Twenty-five years later, the deaths of a couple on the Trail remain shocking – and mostly unexplained.
Earl Swift Outside Sep 2015 30min Permalink
Tommy Gilbert seemed like your average Beekman Place ne’er-do-well son—until his dad turned up dead.
Benjamin Wallace Vanity Fair Mar 2015 20min Permalink
“These, I now know, are the details of how my mother died..:”
Leah Carroll New York Feb 2017 10min Permalink
Everyone knows who killed Rodolfo Illanes. So why is his death such a mystery?
Monte Reel Bloomberg Business Mar 2017 20min Permalink
One year ago the journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and never walked out. This is what happened.
Evan Ratliff Insider Oct 2019 45min Permalink
How a Harvard-educated neurologist, a courtly southern gentlemen, and a Hollywood rent boy ended up at the center of an international manhunt that spread from the staid business community of Columbus, Ohio to the coffee shops of Amsterdam.
Ann Louise Bardach Vanity Fair Oct 1989 2h15min Permalink
For the last two decades, the varied personalities behind the Vidocq Society—retired cops, sketch artists, FBI agents—have gathered in Philadelphia to tackled cold-case homicides over lunch. They claim to have solved more than half.
Adam Higginbotham The Telegraph Nov 2008 15min Permalink
The decades-long saga of Miami’s Take Once Cocktail Lounge, where you might get shot, your money will definitely be laundered, and everybody will know your name.
Gus Garcia-Roberts The Miami New Times Feb 2011 20min Permalink
Hitman-for-hire darknet sites are all scams. But some people turn up dead nonetheless.
Gian Volpicelli Wired UK Dec 2018 30min 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 young, pregnant woman named Laci Peterson disappears, her husband begins to act strangely, and one of the largest media circuses in history descends on the sleepy community of Modesto, CA.
Maureen Orth Vanity Fair Aug 2003 15min 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