Is It a Crime to Raise a Killer?
The debate over who’s responsible when a child kills.
Showing 25 articles matching crime.
The debate over who’s responsible when a child kills.
Lisa Belkin Yahoo Sep 2014 25min Permalink
On the psychology of mass killer Anders Behring Breivik.
Karl Ove Knaussgard New Yorker May 2015 15min Permalink
There has never been a better time to commit financial crimes.
Michael Hobbes Highline Feb 2020 Permalink
The decades-long saga of Michael Morton, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly 50min
As a 15-year runaway hitchhiker, the writer was nearly killed by a trucker. Twenty seven years later, she investigates whether her attacker was truck stop serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, who often kept his victims chained in the back of his truck for weeks before killing and dumping them.
Vanessa Veselka GQ 30min
The murderous tale of Washington D.C. fabulist Albrecht Muth and his late wife Viola Drath.
Trevell Coleman wasn’t sure whether he’d killed a man. But after 17 years, he needed to find out.
Jennifer Gonnerman New York 20min
A medical device company experiments on humans.
Mina Kimes Fortune 30min
Searching for answers 40 years after a Brooklyn man threw acid in the face of his 4-year-old neighbor.
Wendell Jamieson New York Times Mar 2013 15min Permalink
Brock Turner’s twisted legacy—and a Stanford professor’s relentless pursuit of justice.
Julia Ioffe Huffington Post Highline Jun 2018 15min Permalink
A profile of Griselda Blanco, aka the “Black Widow,” who pioneered the cocaine trade in New York and Miami.
Ethan Brown Maxim Jul 2008 15min Permalink
The unintended consequences of cost cutting corporate decisions on display at a Tulsa Wal-Mart Supercenter.
Shannon Pettypiece, David Voreacos Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2016 15min Permalink
A statistics-based argument that drug pricing, not drug use or law enformencement, is the only way to predict swings in violent crime rates.
Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones The Atlantic Nov 2011 10min Permalink
From 1976 to 1986, one of the most violent serial criminals in American history terrorized communities throughout California. He was little known, never caught, and might still be out there. The author, along with several others, can’t stop working on the case.
Michelle McNamara Los Angeles Feb 2013 30min
William Sparkman Jr., a census worker, was found hanging from a tree in rural Kentucky. He was naked, hands bound, with the letters “FED” written across his chest. Inside the investigation into how—and why—he died.
Rich Schapiro The Atlantic Mar 2013 35min
After a botched bank robbery in 1990, Sture Bergwall, aka Thomas Quick, confessed to a string of brutal crimes. He admitted to stabbings, stranglings, incest and cannibalism. He was convicted of eight murders in all, and after the final trial he went silent for nearly a decade. But a few years ago, Bergwall came forward again—there was one more secret he had to tell.
Chris Heath GQ Aug 2013 45min
How a killer and his teenage accomplice used listings for “the job of a lifetime” to lure their victims, all down-and-out single men, to the backwoods of Ohio.
Hanna Rosin The Atlantic Aug 2013 40min
The haunted past of Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama neurobiologist who shot six colleagues during a staff meeting.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Feb 2013 55min
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How a serial killer and his teenage accomplice used listings for “the job of a lifetime” to lure their victims, all single men, to the backwoods of Ohio.
Hanna Rosin The Atlantic Aug 2013 40min
Inside the underground economy of stolen bikes.
Patrick Symmes Outside Jan 2012 25min
A New Yorker finds an unlikely house guest on Craigslist.
Brian Boucher New York Jan 2006 15min
An early investigation of “Craigslist Killer” Philip Markoff.
Maureen Orth Vanity Fair Oct 2009 30min
How Craigslist dealers do business.
David Shapiro, Joe Coscarelli The Village Voice Apr 2011 15min
Jan 2006 – Aug 2013 Permalink
The city’s drop in crime has been nothing short of miraculous. A year-long investigation into the numbers.
David Bernstein, Noah Isackson Chicago Magazine Apr–May 2014 55min Permalink
The story of a high school basketball star’s sexual abuse conviction and its aftermath, told from all sides.
Gary Smith Sports Illustrated Jun 1996 Permalink
The inspiration for Boogie Nights, how Jerry Lee Lewis got away with murder and the article that prompted this week’s cover — a collection of great crime reporting published by Rolling Stone.
On India’s Covid catastrophe.
Arundhati Roy Guardian Apr 2021 20min Permalink
Policing Tottenham Hotspur fans.
David Peisner Buzzfeed Apr 2014 30min Permalink
The man who made millions selling counterfeit wines.
Michael Steinberger Vanity Fair Jul 2012 20min Permalink
A reporter returns to My Lai.
Seymour Hersh New Yorker Mar 2015 30min Permalink
Meet the inspiration for Barbara Loden’s Wanda.
Sarah Weinman Topic Oct 2017 20min Permalink
An Alabama woman took the equivalent of one Valium during her pregnancy. A few weeks after she gave birth, she became one of more than 1,800 new and expecting mothers arrested under the state’s chemical endangerment law.
Nina Martin ProPublica Sep 2015 40min Permalink
The cop says she nabbed an online sexual predator. He says he was just willing to chat whatever it took to get laid in real life. Their story, from both perspectives.
Mark Bowden Vanity Fair Dec 2009 35min Permalink
Audrey Elrod thought she had found the man of her dreams. Today she is in a West Virginia prison. She’s broke. And the court has ordered her to pay more than $400,000 to victims of the same man who conned her.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Oct 2015 25min Permalink
The story of Tyrone Hood, who served 21 years for a murder he didn’t commit, and the Chicago criminal justice apparatus that allowed a serial killer to go free.
Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker Jul 2014 40min Permalink
How cops are using nuisance abatement actions to put New Yorkers on the streets.
Sarah Ryley ProPublica, New York Daily News Feb 2016 25min Permalink
While driving through a dangerous curve in East Texas, James Fulton crossed into oncoming traffic and killed a young woman. The cops said the crash was an accident. But the Smith County DA saw it differently.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Mar 2019 30min Permalink