
Kyle Rittenhouse, American Vigilante
After he killed two people in Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle.
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After he killed two people in Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle.
Paige Williams New Yorker Jun 2021 45min 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
After a reckoning over policing in America, 30 recruits enroll at the academy.
“I want to be the change.”
“This could happen to you.”
“What did you think this job was?”
“Just like that: Bang! You’re dead.”
“Love the aggression.”
“Get him to the grass!”
“You change when you become a cop.”
“One family! One fight!”
After the academy, new officers meet real-world challenges.
Lane DeGregory Tampa Bay Times Jul 2021 1h20min Permalink
A broke music promoter and his detoxing son hatch a plan to solve all their problems. With Nas. On New Year’s Eve. In Angola.
Joshuah Bearman, Rich Schapiro Vulture Aug 2021 40min Permalink
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was once a regular Miami kid. Now he’s in a DC jail.
Joshua Ceballos Miami New Times Sep 2021 35min Permalink
How a drifter from Milwaukee became the chief executioner of the Cuban Revolution—and a test case for U.S. civil rights.
Tony Perrottet The Atavist Magazine Oct 2021 40min Permalink
The enforcer for Oregon’s grocery industry made enemies. One tried to kill him with thallium.
Nigel Jaquiss Willamette Week Nov 2021 20min Permalink
Carbanak’s suspected ringleader is under arrest, but $1.2 billion remains missing, and his malware attacks live on.
Charlie Devereux, Franz Wild, Edward Robinson Bloomberg Business Jun 2018 10min Permalink
A prolific fundraiser and dean at St. John’s University, Cecilia Chang was also accused of murdering her husband and had connections to organized crime. Two days after she was convicted of stealing more than $1 million from the schoool, she took her own life.
A dispatch from Vermont, which is in the midst of what the governor calls a “full-blown heroin crisis.”
David Amsden Rolling Stone Apr 2014 25min Permalink
A small town in Upstate New York, and one family in particular, endures a five-year string of car accidents, suicides, and murders.
E. Jean Carroll Spin Jun 2001 30min Permalink
A pastor-turned-banker fakes his own death after allegedly embezzling millions and defrauding investors.
Charles Bethea Atlanta Magazine Jun 2014 40min Permalink
The author of I Know What You Did Last Summer investigates her own daughter’s unsolved murder.
Tim Stelloh Buzzfeed May 2014 35min Permalink
For many, the answer from the state is “yes.” An investigation into what legally determines a person’s ability to parent.
Seth Freed Wessler ProPublica May 2014 20min Permalink
Inside the collapse of TelexFree, an alleged $1 billion pyramid scheme that duped investors worldwide.
Beth Healy, Nathan B. Thompson Boston Globe Jun 2014 15min Permalink
The gangs of Brooklyn’s Brownsville, an area with the higest concentration of public housing in America.
Eric Konigsberg New York Jun 2014 20min Permalink
A profile of Michelle Lyons, who viewed 278 executions as both a local reporter and a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Sep 2014 40min Permalink
How the self-proclaimed “inventor of all things streaming” went from dot-com millionaire to crime ring accomplice.
Russ Buettner New York Times Aug 2012 10min Permalink
A nationally respected neurologist feeds secrets to Wall Street.
Nathaniel Popper, Bill Vlasic New York Times Dec 2012 Permalink
In 1945, a fire tore through the home of George and Jennie Sodder. Four children escaped; five vanished.
Karen Abbott Smithsonian Dec 2012 Permalink
An investigation into the death of a sacred white buffalo and the man who raised it.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Jan 2013 30min Permalink
A bookkeeper’s $9 million swindle, her lavish second life, and the boss who didn’t notice.
Neil Swidey The Boston Globe Sep 2006 25min Permalink
On Lucille Miller, who in San Bernadino in 1964 was convicted of burning her husband to death in his Volkswagen.
Joan Didion Saturday Evening Post Apr 1966 30min Permalink
On the Connecticut priest who dealt methamphetamine from his church and ran a sex ring from his apartment.
N.R. Kleinfield New York Times Feb 2013 10min Permalink
A generation that has seen inestimable violence comes of age in Juarez.
Jeremy Relph Buzzfeed Mar 2013 20min Permalink