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An internet-famous plastic surgeon faces hard questions, and a lawsuit, after building his brand on his patients’ bodies.
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An internet-famous plastic surgeon faces hard questions, and a lawsuit, after building his brand on his patients’ bodies.
Katherine Laidlaw Wired Jan 2021 Permalink
Inside America’s fast-growing civilian tactical training industry.
Rachel Monroe Wired Jan 2021 30min Permalink
Following the United Nations’ war crimes detectives who tracked down a man who helped unleash the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
Joshua Hammer GQ Jan 2021 30min Permalink
When she was a 15-year-old runaway, the writer was nearly killed by a truck driver. 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 Oct 2012 30min Permalink
“I decided that if he would not tell us his story, then I would.”
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah GQ Aug 2017 50min Permalink
Thirty years after it was first pioneered, the Brain Fingerprinting system is finally being put to the test.
Tim Stelloh OneZero Jan 2021 20min Permalink
Private executioners paid in cash. Middle-of-the-night killings. False or incomplete justifications.
Isaac Arnsdorf ProPublica Dec 2020 20min Permalink
A trip to Batumi, Georgia.
One year after a 14-year-old basketball player was killed by a stray bullet on a playground court in Queens, his friends and family still don’t have answers—only enduring anguish and a familiar feeling of grief.
Kevin Armstrong Sports Illustrated Dec 2020 25min Permalink
Many of the 230,000 women and girls in U.S. jails and prisons were abuse survivors before they entered the system. And at least 30 percent of those serving time on murder or manslaughter charges were protecting themselves or a loved one from physical or sexual violence.
Justine van der Leun The New Republic Dec 2020 35min Permalink
What it was like to be a rank-and-file Sony employee after the hack.
Amanda Hess Slate Nov 2015 20min Permalink
After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work that cracked the case and brought down the government.
Ben Taub New Yorker Dec 2020 Permalink
Armed with a handgun, a fake ID card and disguises, Miriam Rodríguez was a one-woman detective squad, attempting to catch her daughter’s murderers in the border town of San Fernando.
Azam Ahmed New York Times Dec 2020 Permalink
In 1986, two lovebirds busted out of a coed prison in a hijacked helicopter. They’ve been trying to escape ever since.
David Gauvey Herbert Esquire Dec 2020 30min Permalink
Did an affair with a Russian agent push Overstock’s Patrick Byrne too far?
Sheelah Kolhatkar The New Yorker Dec 2020 30min Permalink
In St. Louis, a former rival could end up springing Felix Key from a 28 year sentence.
Ryan Krull Riverfront Times Dec 2020 Permalink
Trawick was alone in his apartment when an officer pushed open the door. He was holding a bread knife and a stick. “Why are you in my home?” he asked. He never got an answer.
Eric Umansky ProPublica Dec 2020 25min Permalink
When model Kimberly Fattorini died after a night out in Hollywood, everyone assumed she’d accidentally overdosed. But there was more to the story.
K.J. Yossman Elle Nov 2020 Permalink
Shaun MacDonald was an ambitious tech innovator whose start-up was going to revolutionize the crypto economy. His wealthy investors had no idea that their charismatic founder was really Boaz Manor, a notorious Canadian white-collar criminal.
Leah McLaren Toronto Life Nov 2020 25min Permalink
Twenty-five years ago this month, “superpredator” was coined in The Weekly Standard. Media spread the term like wildfire, creating repercussions on policy and culture we are still reckoning with today.
Carroll Bogert, Lynell Hancock The Marshall Project Nov 2020 15min Permalink
How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.
Jill Lepore New Yorker Nov 2020 25min Permalink
When human blood overtakes a house amid racial turmoil in 1987 Atlanta, terrifying the family inside, a mystery opens up that persists to this day.
Danny Cherry Jr. Truly Adventurous Oct 2020 30min Permalink
Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.
Rebecca Mead New Yorker Nov 2020 30min Permalink
It’s been 14 years since Bryan Pata was shot to death just after football practice. He was months away from the NFL Draft. His killer is still free.
Paula Lavigne, Elizabeth Merrill ESPN Nov 2020 40min Permalink
A bizarre 1970 Arctic killing over a jug of raisin wine shows that we need to think about crime outside our atmosphere now.