The Man Who Shot the Man Who Shot Lincoln
The strange life of Boston Corbett, the soldier who killed John Wilkes Booth in 1865.
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Death on Terminal Island
An investigation into the death of Victoria Arellano at a Los Angeles County immigration detention facility.
The Bomb That Didn't Go Off
On a failed attack in Spokane and the fragments of homegrown terrorism in the United States.
Capital Murder
The coldest of cases: During 1884-85, seven women and one man were brutally murdered in Austin, Texas.
Why Americans Still Support The Death Penalty
Three primary reasons: A desire for vengeance, the sanitization of executions and, ironically, the reliability of DNA evidence.
The Last Ride of Jesse James Hollywood
A tony bedroom community in Los Angeles, a kidnapping gone horribly wrong, and the birth of a teenage fugitive.
What Really Happened to Strauss-Kahn?
An investigation into the events surrounding Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s May 2011 arrest for sexual assault.
Central Booking
A log of the 32 shitless hours that the author spent in the Tombs prison after being arrested during an Occupy Wall Street protest.
Stalking Her Killer
The author tracks down a former Peace Corps volunteer who murdered a fellow worker in 1976.
A Hole in the Ground
Is a serial killer on the loose in Wellfleet? An investigation.
A Struggle with the Police & the Law
A Supreme Court Justice revisits a rape trial from the 1950s.
The Penge Mystery: the murder of Harriet Staunton
On a Victorian-era murder case, and the novel it inspired.
Louisiana Incarcerated
A multi-part series exploring Louisiana’s role as “the world’s prison capital.”
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Arresting Development: How Texas was able to close a prison.
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Behind Bars: How Louisiana’s incarceration rate became the highest in the world.
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A Trade in Prisoners: The link between rural economies and the prison system.
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An Economic Machine: How private business benefits from prisons.
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Throwing Away the Key: Who gets rehabilitated?
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Locked In: Why prison reform is so difficult.
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Unusual Punishment: How mandatory sentencing laws keep prisons full.
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No Way Out: Hundreds wait as pardons pile up on the Governor's desk.
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Hitting Home: The disproportionate impact of the prison system on certain neighborhoods.
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Rough Re-Entry: The difficult life back on the outside.
The Worst Marriage in Georgetown
The murderous tale of Washington D.C. fabulist Albrecht Muth and his late wife Viola Drath.
Snap Goes The Crocodile
Life inside a provincial Russian drug den. Originally appeared in Russky Reporter.
West End Boy
On Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik and the rise of Islamophobia in Norway.
Good Kids, Bad City
Three men are exonerated, almost 40 years after a 12-year-old’s coerced testimony led to their murder convictions.
Framed By Forensics
Junky, out-of-date science fuels jury errors and tragic miscarriages of justice. How can we throw it out of court?
From Amateur to Ruthless Jihadist in France
Chérif and Saïd Kouachi’s path to the Paris attack at Charlie Hebdo.
From Gitmo to an American Supermax, The Horrors of Solitary Confinement
On the psychological damage punitive isolation inflicts upon Guantánamo and American prisoners alike.
Hoax: Secrets That Truman Capote Took to the Grave
Uncovering the real story behind Capote’s Hand-Carved Coffins.
When Your Father Is the BTK Serial Killer, Forgiveness Is Not Tidy
“The FBI man knocked on Kerri Rawson’s door 10 years ago Feb. 25.”
How a Michigan Farmer Made $4 Million Smuggling Rare Pez Containers Into the U.S.
“In essence, Pez ordered his economic assassination,” said a fellow Pez dealer.
The Dukes of Oxy
Doug Dodd was a drug kingpin in high school. And now, like the narrator of a Scorcese film, he wants to tell his own story.
The Terrible Things I Learned About My Dad: On Abuse and the People We Love
The author discovers devastating secrets while going through her late father’s belongings.
