The Bloody Baron’s Crazy, Mixed-Up Robbery
George von Bothmer reported a violent home invasion by two men wielding guns and shouting death threats. Things only got weirder from there.
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George von Bothmer reported a violent home invasion by two men wielding guns and shouting death threats. Things only got weirder from there.
Lee van der Doo, David Wolman Daily Beast Feb 2019 30min Permalink
He was a Harvard Law professor who taught a class on judgment, which made him an unlikely target for an elaborate paternity scheme that nearly cost him his house and family.
Kera Bolonik New York Jul 2019 30min Permalink
For more than 40 years, a former Olympian allegedly has been molesting boys and young men. Now, they’re speaking out.
Mike Kessler, Mark Fainaru-Wada ESPN Aug 2019 40min Permalink
Fentanyl is quickly becoming America’s deadliest drug. But law enforcement couldn’t trace it to its source—until one teenager overdosed in North Dakota.
Alex W. Palmer New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 50min Permalink
Florida lawmakers agreed the state’s old drug sentencing laws went too far. But that means nothing to people serving time.
Emily L. Mahoney Tampa Bay Times Nov 2019 15min Permalink
Tonya Crowder still dreams that she and her fiance, Roosevelt Myles—who’s been in prison for decades fighting what he says is a wrongful conviction—will one day build a life together somewhere “nice, quiet, and simple.”
Mari Cohen Chicago Reader Nov 2019 25min Permalink
When a ring of thieves steals a poet’s beloved dog, one of the world’s most famous women must break her long domestic oppression and discover herself in the process.
Olivia Rutigliano Truly*Adventurous Jan 2020 30min Permalink
Jane de Oliveira set out to protect the world’s largest rain forest from the corporate interests that are burning it to the ground. Then the armed men showed up.
Jesse Hyde Vanity Fair Mar 2020 20min Permalink
Richard Phillips survived the longest wrongful prison sentence in American history by writing poetry and painting with watercolors. But on a cold day in the prison yard, he carried a knife and thought about revenge.
Thomas Lake CNN Apr 2020 35min Permalink
Everything I had going against me he had going for him. Us young Black dudes who were slanging were hated, hunted and haunted for our role in the drug war. He was praised and honored and rewarded with overtime.
D. Watkins Huffington Post Highline May 2020 40min Permalink
When Nikki Addimando shot her abusive partner, she thought she had enough proof it was self-defense. Why did the prosecution only see a cold-blooded killer?
Justine van der Leun GEN Magazine May 2020 45min Permalink
A prostitution and sex trafficking ring operated on the outskirts of a U.S. Navy base in Bahrain and may have involved 15% of the sailors stationed there.
Geoff Ziezulewicz Military Times Jun 2020 30min Permalink
How the seizure of Europe’s largest heroin shipment created bloody fallout throughout the world—and sparked still-raging political corruption scandals in Turkey, Greece, and the Middle East.
Alexander Clapp The New Republic Sep 2020 30min Permalink
When Jennifer Farber disappeared in 2019, suspicion immediately centered on her husband and press coverage almost exclusively painted her as a missing suburban mom. But reducing the 50-year-old’s life to a familiar tabloid trope missed so much of her story.
Vanessa Grigoriadis Vanity Fair Oct 2020 30min Permalink
One year after a 14-year-old basketball player was killed by a stray bullet on a playground court in Queens, his friends and family still don’t have answers—only enduring anguish and a familiar feeling of grief.
Kevin Armstrong Sports Illustrated Dec 2020 25min Permalink
Interviews with 19 current and former officers show how failures of leadership and communication put hundreds of Capitol cops at risk and allowed rioters to get dangerously close to members of Congress on January 6th, 2021.
Joaquin Sapien, Joshua Kaplan ProPublica Feb 2021 25min Permalink
On Feb. 19, 2020, a right-wing extremist murdered nine young people in Germany. Because the gunman shot himself, there will be no trial. But those left behind have questions for the country they call home.
Özlem Gezer, Timofey Neshitov Der Spiegel Feb 2021 45min Permalink
She escaped a crazed psychopath at 16. Decades later, as the BTK serial killer terrorizes Wichita, she has to run for her life again. The identity of her tormentor is too chilling to believe.
Corey Mead Truly*Adventurous Mar 2021 40min Permalink
After 9/11, U.S. authorities used informants to secure hundreds of terror convictions. But did they help create plots where none existed?
Rozina Ali New York Times Magazine Apr 2021 30min Permalink
Authorities say Ramon Abbas, aka Hushpuppi, perfected a simple internet scam and laundered millions of dollars. His past says a lot about digital swagger, and the kinds of stories that get told online.
Evan Ratliff Bloomberg Businessweek Jun 2021 Permalink
For centuries, everyone from archaeologists to amateurs pillaged artifacts — and human remains. Now, the FBI is cracking down on those who continue to dig.
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson Washington Post Magazine Jul 2021 25min Permalink
Paul Wulff, a college football coach, was only 12 when his mother vanished from their family home. After 41 years of searching, he finally has been able to piece together some details of a mystery that upended both his life and family.
Kyle Bonagura, Adam Rittenberg ESPN Aug 2021 20min Permalink
A call to the Obama White House that some legal experts say is impeachable fits a pattern of the Governor smearing those who scrutinize him.
Ronan Farrow The New Yorker Aug 2021 25min Permalink
How did the most wanted man in America, the serial bomber behind the Atlanta Olympics explosion, survive for five years in the North Carolina woods? And was he helped?
Bruce Barcott Outside Sep 2003 15min Permalink
Vera Pratt moved to the island at age 70 hoping to find many years of happiness. Then she met “Psychic Angela” and her future got a whole lot more complicated.
Alexander Huls Boston Globe Oct 2021 Permalink