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On the autopsy of a 5,000-year-old murder victim.
Showing 25 articles matching murder mysteries.
On the autopsy of a 5,000-year-old murder victim.
Stephen S. Hall National Geographic Nov 2011 Permalink
The flawed science that helped convict a Tennessee man of murder.
Liliana Segura The Intercept Feb 2015 45min Permalink
A steep discount on pharmaceutical drugs leads to a mass-murder case.
Kurt Eichenwald Newsweek Apr 2015 Permalink
A trip to the International Tolstoy Conference to investigate an unsolved murder.
Elif Batuman Granta Apr 2018 15min Permalink
They advertise murder for hire but work for the government. Inside the world of America’s fake hit men.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Nov 2013 20min Permalink
A profile of former club kid Michael Alig, who is approaching release after serving 17 years in jail for murder.
Caitlin Dickson The Daily Beast Feb 2014 15min Permalink
Pvt. Felix Hall died in the only known murder of its kind on a U.S. military base.
Alexa Mills Washington Post Sep 2016 20min Permalink
Mary Kuanen escaped the violence of Sudan only to live through her husband’s murder in suburban Denver. This is her life today.
Robert Sanchez 5280 Dec 2016 Permalink
In Argentina, where the fútbol underworld controls everything from t-shirt vending to murder, and “rowdy gangs” have turned the stadium into a battleground.
Patrick Symmes Outside Oct 2012 25min Permalink
The early life of “the onetime Black Panther, protégé of George Jackson, and sole member of the San Quentin Six convicted of murder.”
Chip Brown Esquire Jan 1988 35min Permalink
On the murder of a popular bar owner in a ghost town near the Mexican border.
Rachel Monroe Outside May 2014 20min Permalink
The story of Tim Danielson, one of America’s top high school distance runners, who went on to murder his ex-wife.
Jeré Longman New York Times Mar 2013 20min Permalink
Behind the tabloid story of the “murder orphan” in Queens.
Analysis of the divisive murder case.
Gene Weingarten Washington Post Dec 2012 25min Permalink
An oral history project involving former IRA members becomes a prolonged court battle over a four-decade-old murder.
Beth McMurtrie The Chronicle of Higher Education Jan 2014 30min Permalink
Skyrocketing prices for yarchagumba, a rare fungus prized as an aphrodisiac, has led to Nepali villagers to turf wars—and possibly murder.
Eric Hansen Outside Aug 2011 20min Permalink
After a murder in the California wilderness, the search for the killer raises complicated questions about mental illness.
Ashley Powers California Sunday May 2016 25min Permalink
Two young girls attempt to murder another in Waukesha, Wisconsin, trying to bring an internet meme to life.
Lisa Miller New York Aug 2015 25min Permalink
After a cop walks into his station and confesses to murder, an investigation reveals the toll of lethal force on both sides of the gun.
Wendy Gillis The Toronto Star Dec 2017 35min Permalink
How a senseless double murder in Florida exposed the rise of an organized fascist youth movement in the United States.
Janet Reitman Rolling Stone May 2018 40min Permalink
Two angry men submerged themselves in the far-right internet. One committed murder. The other walked away. Why?
Joseph Bernstein Buzzfeed Nov 2018 15min Permalink
An unarmed man, a cop charged with murder, and the challenge of policing mental illness.
Steve Fennessy Atlanta Magazine Sep 2019 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
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
Longform’s guide to murder, corruption, extortion, and incompetence - committed by police officers around the country.
A murder case in Los Angeles, cold since the late ’80s, heats up thanks to breakthroughs in forensic science and leads detectives to one of their own.
Matthew McGough Atlantic Jun 2011 35min
The rise and fall of the Seven-Seven—stationed in the war zone of 1980’s Crown Heights, Brooklyn—and how an idealistic young recruit became part of cash-snatching, drug-reselling, renegade clique of cops.
Michael Daly New York Dec 1986 30min
Rogue cops in the LAPD Rampart division’s anti-gang CRASH unit (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) were involved in everything from drug smuggling and bank robberies to, allegedly, the murder of Notorious BIG.
A cop kills a fellow officer during a drug bust and claims it was an accident. Others suspect that it wasn’t.
Sean Flynn GQ Aug 2008 35min
How the New Orleans Police Department failed during Hurricane Katrina.
Dan Baum New Yorker Jan 2006 45min
In 2008, a Brooklyn cop grew gravely concerned about how the public was being served. So he began carrying a digital sound recorder, secretly recording his colleagues and superiors.
Graham Rayman Village Voice May 2010 25min
It can’t be all bad! Here’s the story of a group that posed as cops and built “most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation’s history” before the law enforcement took them down.
William McGowan Slate Jul 2012 30min
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