A Made-for-Tabloid Murder
A young, pregnant woman named Laci Peterson disappears, her husband begins to act strangely, and one of the largest media circuses in history descends on the sleepy community of Modesto, CA.
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A young, pregnant woman named Laci Peterson disappears, her husband begins to act strangely, and one of the largest media circuses in history descends on the sleepy community of Modesto, CA.
Maureen Orth Vanity Fair Aug 2003 15min Permalink
A former colleague visits the ‘Fire Fiend’ in prison.
Aaron Gell The New York Observer Dec 2011 15min Permalink
The Manhattan murder mystery spurred a tabloid drama that engulfed the city’s rich and powerful. But what really happened?
Christopher Bollen Vanity Fair Apr 2020 40min Permalink
Tabloid newspapers were caught hacking into the voicemails of Prince William and Prince Harry. One reporter was arrested - but an investigation shows the eavesdropping was far more elaborate and widespread.
‘He likes people walking around in fear,’ says one worker. ‘He gets off on it.’
Rene Chun The Daily Beast Mar 2019 25min Permalink
A nasty divorce ends in murder and national notoriety.
Amy Wallace The Los Angeles Times Jun 1990 30min Permalink
Can Karen Navarra’s Fitbit explain her murder?
Lauren Smiley Wired Sep 2019 30min Permalink
An examination of the continued fascination with the 6-year-old beauty queen, 20 years after her murder.
Sarah Marshall Buzzfeed Sep 2016 20min Permalink
A dispatch from North Carolina.
Nick Martin Splinter Aug 2018 50min Permalink
On a Victorian-era murder case, and the novel it inspired.
Rachel Cooke The Guardian Apr 2012 10min Permalink
What really happened at 2475 Glendower Place.
Jeff Maysh Medium Sep 2015 20min Permalink
The Yale professor suspected of murdering his student.
James Bennet New York Times Magazine Sep 1999 20min Permalink
An unexplainable murder, double jeopardy, and military courts: the strange case of Tim Hennis.
Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker Nov 2011 35min Permalink
Rodrigo Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Guatemala, began, in the spring of 2009, to prophesy his own murder. The unraveling of a political conspiracy.
David Grann New Yorker Jan 2012 55min Permalink
The jury made a mistake when it convicted Abdul Raheem.
David S. Bernstein Boston Phoenix Apr 2005 Permalink
The stolen youth of Lorenzo Montoya.
Alan Prendergast Westword Jul 2016 30min Permalink
Nearly 70 years after Bugsy Siegel’s unsolved murder in Beverly Hills, a family finally comes forward: they know who did it.
Amy Wallace Los Angeles Sep 2014 15min Permalink
The story of H.H. Holmes, America’s first serial killer.
John Bartlow Martin Harper's Dec 1943 25min Permalink
One woman’s ghastly dollhouse dioramas turned crime scene investigation into a science.
Rachel Nuwer Slate Jun 2014 10min Permalink
Who killed four people in the French Alps?
Sean Flynn GQ Sep 2015 35min Permalink
On FIFA’s history of scandal.
Brian Phillips Grantland Aug 2011 15min Permalink
The life and death of Srinivas Kuchibhotla.
Lauren Smiley Wired Jun 2017 25min Permalink
In May 2018, schoolgirl Ana Kriégel was lured from her home, brought to an abandoned house, and murdered. A year later two 14-year-old boys were found guilty of her killing, becoming the youngest people in the history of Ireland to be convicted of murder.
Conor Gallagher The Irish Times Jun 2019 1h10min Permalink
On the “black widow” of Keller, Texas.
Claire St. Amant CultureMap Dallas Oct 2013 20min Permalink
The life and last days of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
Sean Flynn GQ Nov 2012 20min Permalink