Blood Cries Out
On a Missouri farm, two families worked the land side by side, until a murder shattered their American dream.
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On a Missouri farm, two families worked the land side by side, until a murder shattered their American dream.
Sean Patrick Cooper The Atavist Magazine Nov 2018 40min Permalink
A Little League season in Camden, New Jersey, where the murder rate is 17 times the national average.
Kathy Dobie GQ May 2014 25min 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
Possible clues about Lincoln’s murder in the unlikeliest place.
Twenty-six years after he was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his wife, Michael Morton sees the real killer brought to justice in a Texas courthouse.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Jun 2013 25min Permalink
The story of the 1969 murder spree by Charles Manson and “Family” as told by those close to the case.
Steve Oney Los Angeles Jul 2009 Permalink
America's fascination with murder has not yet extended to its aftermath. As a result, the victims' survivors must seek comfort from one another.
Eric Schlosser The Atlantic Sep 1997 35min Permalink
A murder involving one of the India’s celebrity couples has mesmerized the country and exposed some of its darkest fears.
Sonia Faleiro The California Sunday Magazine Mar 2016 20min Permalink
An indecent proposal, a crime of passion, and legends of murder in an enclave of bohemian retirees.
Chris Walker The Atavist Jan 2018 45min Permalink
The former NBA player is forever linked to the murder of his girlfriend.
Jon Wertheim Sports Illustrated Apr 2019 25min Permalink
The untold story of Alek Minassian, a year after the deadliest mass murder in Toronto history
Katherine Laidlaw Toronto Life Apr 2019 20min Permalink
At fourteen, Ron Bishop helped convict three innocent boys of murder. They’ve all lived with the consequences.
Jennifer Gonnerman New Yorker Oct 2021 30min 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
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
Dec 1986 – Jul 2012 Permalink
The murder of an Olympic champion and the autopsy that shook a city.
Matt Tullis SB Nation Jun 2013 30min 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
What a secret audio tape revealed about the murder of mycologist and magic mushroom pioneer Steven Pollock.
Hamilton Morris Harper's Jul 2013 50min Permalink