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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
Her parents wanted Jennifer to be successful. The pressure may have led her to plot their murder.
Karen K. Ho Toronto Life Jul 2015 20min Permalink
Justice isn’t so easy to come by when an American soldier stationed abroad is accused of murder.
Meredith Talusan Vice Feb 2015 25min Permalink
An 18-month investigation proves reveals how easy it is to get away with murder in Baltimore.
Jim Haner, John B. O'Donnell, Kimberly A.C. Wilson The Baltimore Sun Sep 2002 35min Permalink
A former journalist, equipped with an algorithm and the largest collection of murder records in the country, finds patterns in crime.
Alec Wilkinson New Yorker Nov 2017 15min Permalink
A new historical inquiry into the murder of Elwood Higginbotham offers a chance to confront the past.
Vanessa Gregory New York Times Magazine Apr 2018 25min Permalink
How prosecutors tied a brazen murder in an upscale Dallas suburb to one of Mexico’s most violent criminal organizations.
Michael J. Mooney Texas Monthly Aug 2018 30min Permalink
In the wake of a vicious murder, the state of Oregon wrestles with what went wrong in its mental health system.
Rob Fischer Rolling Stone Feb 2020 35min Permalink
How the murder of Timothy Coggins was finally solved.
Wesley Lowery GQ Jul 2020 15min Permalink
In Scott Kimball, the FBI thought it had found a high-value informant who could help solve big cases. What it got instead was lies, betrayal, and murder.
Jordan Michael Smith The Atavist Magazine Jun 2021 45min Permalink
How P. Rajagopal, the founder of one of the world’s largest vegetarian restaurant chains, got away with murder.
Rollo Romig New York Times Magazine May 2014 20min Permalink
A family turns to murder to save one of their own.
Lauren Smiley San Francisco Jul 2013 25min Permalink
In 1995, Ramirez allegedly raped Patricia Esparza. He was tortured and killed weeks later. Now she’s charged with his murder. Is she responsible?
Emily Bazelon Slate Feb 2014 40min Permalink
Three men are exonerated, almost 40 years after a 12-year-old’s coerced testimony led to their murder convictions.
Kyle Swenson Cleveland Scene Dec 2014 30min Permalink
On how a childhood spent in New York City’s tenements led a 15-year-old boy to be convicted of murder.
Jacob Riis The Atlantic Sep 1899 25min Permalink
The long legal saga of Kerry Max Cook, who for almost 40 years fought to clear his name after being convicted of murder.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Mar 2017 50min Permalink
Seth Herter’s life was full of delusions. But the murder was all too real.
Doyle Murphy Riverfront Times Jul 2018 20min Permalink
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
Decades after the body of beauty queen Irene Garza was pulled from an irrigation canal, there is still only one suspect: John Feit, the priest who heard her final confession.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Apr 2005 30min 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