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The stolen youth of Lorenzo Montoya.
Alan Prendergast Westword Jul 2016 30min Permalink
The rise and fall of a Bitcoin mining scheme that was “too big to fail.”
Alan Prendergast Westword Feb 2020 30min Permalink
Mary Ellen Johnson, a 48-year-old author, befriends a teenager convicted of murdering his parents.
Alan Prendergast Westword Mar 1998 30min Permalink
Joe Arridy had an IQ of 46. In 1939, he was executed for a crime he neither understood nor committed.
Alan Prendergast Westword Sep 2012 30min Permalink
The story of a bank robber who risked his life to put a killer on death row.
Alan Prendergast Westword Jan 2019 50min Permalink
Big-riggers who make sometimes less than minimum wage are locked legal fights with the unregulated leasing industry.
Alan Prendergast Westword Mar 2021 20min Permalink
Dandenis Muñoz Mosquera, a.k.a. “La Quica,” was one of Pablo Escobar’s top killers. Now he’s in a maximum security prison in Colorado. Here’s the thing: for all his crimes, La Quica may not have committed the one that put him away.
Alan Prendergast Westword May 2001 20min Permalink
His wife murdered his mother, tried to do the same to him, and was prepared to orphan their 8-month-old child. The attempt left him blind. Then he defended her in court.
Alan Prendergast Westword Dec 2010 25min Permalink
In July 2008, the director of a Denver non-profit received a package containing house keys, a will, a $100,000 check and what appeared to be a suicide note. She didn’t go to the bank–or to the cops.
Alan Prendergast Westword May 2009 25min Permalink
In 2005, the prisoner who had set the U.S. penal system record for years in solitary confinement was moved to what’s called “the Alcatraz of the Rockies”—a jail in Colorado built just for him.
Alan Prendergast Westword Aug 2007 20min Permalink
The story of a lynching in rural CO in 1900, while hundreds watched, done with the complicity of press and cops, and why it still resonates today.
Alan Prendergast Westword Nov 2018 25min Permalink
After all these years, it’s still there, in the back of her mind, lurking. No matter how good things are going, it never quite goes away, this feeling that she should have died that day. And her brush with death is the first thing that strangers tend to notice about her, like a limp or a disfigurement. Once they find out where she went to high school, that’s all they want to talk about.
Alan Prendergast Westword Mar 2019 30min Permalink
Three months before it all started, she'd been a shy sophomore at Aurora Central High School, a member of the soccer and speech teams. Then Randy Miller had come out of prison and back into her world. A 22-year-old former child prostitute and drug dealer, Miller had promised to take her away from a tumultuous and painful home life. But the journey he had in mind led downward, into a terrifying series of home invasions and armed robberies and, finally, a few hours after the King Soopers stickup, to a standoff with state troopers in a small Kansas town.
Alan Prendergast Westword Feb 2012 Permalink
A con man ruining lives from behind bars. A woman who took on her health insurance company and won huge. A producer who lost everything on an epic coke binge. Those stories and more are included in Best Alternative Longform Journalism, a new anthology of great writing from alt-weeklies, which is available free and only through Longform.
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