The Most Dangerous Woman in San Francisco
For nearly 200 years, San Francisco has been the last stop of petty thieves, con artists and killers. Iva Kroeger was all three.
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For nearly 200 years, San Francisco has been the last stop of petty thieves, con artists and killers. Iva Kroeger was all three.
Katie Dowd SFGate Nov 2021 Permalink
In Sinaloa, Mexico, women recover the bodies of missing loved ones—and cook to keep their memories of the dead alive.
Annelise Jolley The Atavist Magazine Dec 2021 20min Permalink
This is the story of the night Hannah was not officially raped in Washington, D.C.
Amanda Hess Washington City Paper Apr 2010 40min Permalink
A profile of the reclusive billionaire who orchestrated a collectible toy craze.
Bryan Smith Chicago Magazine Apr 2014 20min Permalink
The life and mysterious death of dissident Bulgarian writer and radio journalist Georgi Markov.
Dimiter Kenarov The Nation Apr 2014 20min Permalink
The fall of PCCare247, an Indian company in the business of selling fixes to problems that didn’t exist.
Nate Anderson Ars Technica May 2014 15min Permalink
The fight over an alleged Israeli war crime.
Batya Ungar-Sargon Tablet May 2014 30min Permalink
An investigation into how Rikers Island guards treat the roughly 4,000 inmates who are mentally ill.
Michael Winerip, Michael Schwirtz New York Times Jul 2014 20min Permalink
On former CIA agent John T. Downey, who spent more than 20 years in China as the longest held American captive of war.
Andrew Burt Slate Sep 2014 2h10min Permalink
Buddy Cianci, former Providence mayor and convicted felon, is running for the city’s top office. Again.
Simon van Zuylen-Wood Boston Magazine Oct 2014 15min Permalink
A three-part investigation into links between the cocaine trade, Nicaragua’s CIA-backed Contra rebels, and California’s crack epidemic in the 1980s.
Backers of CIA-led Nicaraguan rebels brought cocaine to poor L.A. neighborhoods in the early 1980s to help finance war – and a plague was born.
How a smuggler, a bureaucrat and an ambitious teenager created the cocaine pipeline.
The impact of the crack epidemic.
Gary Webb San Jose Mercury News Aug 1996 Permalink
Alfred Dellentash Jr. chartered the Rolling Stones in private jets while smuggling planeloads of Pablo Escobar’s drugs on the side.
Jeff Maysh Narratively Nov 2014 30min Permalink
Andre Thomas cut out his children’s hearts and removed his own eyes. Texas considers him sane.
Marc Bookman Mother Jones Feb 2013 25min Permalink
How Curtis Duffy overcame his parents’ murder-suicide to become one of the nation’s great chefs.
Kevin Pang The Chicago Tribune Feb 2013 Permalink
“It seemed like everyone gets raped and assaulted and no one does anything about it; it’s like a big rape cult.”
Sabrina Rubin Erdely Rolling Stone Feb 2013 30min Permalink
Three boys falsely accused of murder, and what the twenty-year saga says about all of us.
Nathaniel Rich New York Review of Books Apr 2013 20min Permalink
A look at the Mexican drug wars from the point of view of a narco’s mistress in Juárez.
Ricardo C. Ainslie Texas Monthly Apr 2013 15min Permalink
Kosovo’s leaders have been accused of grotesque war crimes. But can anyone prove it?
Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker May 2013 35min 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
The story of a St. Louis handball court.
Jessica Lussenhop Riverfront Times Jun 2013 Permalink
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The hunt for a secretive network of British men obsessed with accumulating and cataloguing the eggs of rare birds.
Julian Rubinstein New Yorker Jul 2013 30min Permalink
The mysterious life and death of Dow B. Hover, the man who ran New York’s electric chair.
Jennifer Gonnerman Village Voice Jan 2005 15min Permalink
The misidentification of a Boston Marathon bomber and the future of breaking news.
Jay Caspian Kang New York Times Magazine Jul 2013 25min Permalink
A family’s struggle with mental illness and the criminal justice system.
Brantley Hargrove Dallas Observer Sep 2012 25min Permalink
Reverse engineering the details of a murder that took place in St. Louis on Christmas Night in 1895 from over a century of popular song.
Paul Slade PlanetSlade 40min Permalink