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Crime

Crime Movies & TV

The Hollywood Vigilante

Hunting child predators with actress Marisol Nichols.

Erika Hayasaki Marie Claire May 2020 20min Permalink

Crime

The Malaysian Job

How Wall Street enabled a global financial scandal.

Andrew Cockburn Harper's Magazine Apr 2020 40min Permalink

Crime

An Innocent Man Spent 46 Years in Prison. And Made a Plan to Kill the Man Who Framed Him.

Richard Phillips survived the longest wrongful prison sentence in American history by writing poetry and painting with watercolors. But on a cold day in the prison yard, he carried a knife and thought about revenge.

Thomas Lake CNN Apr 2020 35min Permalink

Best Article Arts Crime

In Search of Inigo Philbrick, the Disappearing Art Dealer

A young dealer goes on the lam after selling multiple masterpieces to several buyers simultaneously.

Oliver Franklin-Wallis GQ Apr 2020 30min Permalink

Crime

On the Trail of a Silver Thief

The case against a notorious cat burglar, who is accused of stealing more than $12 million worth of the South’s finest sterling silver.

Kim Severson Garden & Gun Mar 2014 15min Permalink

Crime

Murder at Sutton Place

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

Crime

The Highland Park Drug Ring

How did a mother of 10 and a Plano cop wind up pushing pills in the Park Cities?

Peter Simek D Magazine Apr 2020 30min Permalink

Crime World

A Missionary on Trial

Renée Bach went to Uganda to save children—but many in her care died. Was she responsible?

Ariel Levy New Yorker Apr 2020 40min Permalink

Best Article Crime

Blood Will Tell

The murder of Mickey Bryan stunned her small Texas town. Then her husband, Joe Bryan, was charged with killing her. Did he do it, or had there been a terrible mistake?

Joe Bryan was released from prison earlier this week.

  1. Part I

    The trail and conviction of Joe Bryan.

  2. Part II

    Was the bloodstain-pattern analysis at the center of the prosecution’s case really solid forensic evidence?

Pamela Colloff ProPublica, New York Times Magazine May 2018 Permalink

Crime

Revive

A fatal overdose, a stunning coincidence, and a mother’s long quest to heal.

Max Blau The Atavist Magazine Mar 2020 35min Permalink

Crime

The Fall of Superman

How a fearsome, fast-talking union boss became a leading figure in cannabis legalization while shaking down the very people he was supposed to be helping.

Jason Fagone San Francisco Chronicle, Epic Magazine Mar 2020 1h15min Permalink

Business Crime Science

The Big Cat Fight

An early profile of Carole Baskin, proprietor of Big Cat Rescue in Tampa.

Leonora LaPeter Anton Tampa Bay Times Nov 2007 15min Permalink

Crime World

Massacre in the Amazon

Jane de Oliveira set out to protect the world’s largest rain forest from the corporate interests that are burning it to the ground. Then the armed men showed up.

Jesse Hyde Vanity Fair Mar 2020 20min Permalink

Crime History

‘You don’t understand, Captain. He has a gun’: The Hijacking of Flight 1320

An Eastern Airlines shuttle to Boston 50 years ago started out routine. It ended up changing how America flies.

Neil Swidey The Boston Globe Mar 2020 40min Permalink

Crime

The Mother and the Murderer

He was jailed for killing her daughter. Then she feared the police had the wrong man.

Gareth Evans BBC Mar 2020 30min Permalink

Crime History

The School Shooting That Austin Forgot

In 1978, an eighth grader killed his teacher. After 20 months in a psychiatric facility, he was freed. His classmates still wonder: What really happened?

Robert Draper Texas Monthly Mar 2020 45min Permalink

Crime

The Killing of a Colorado Rancher

When Jake Millison went missing, his family said he’d skipped town. But his friends refused to let him simply disappear.

Rachel Monroe The Atlantic Mar 2020 30min Permalink

Crime

The Storykiller and His Sentence

On the end of Harvey Weinstein.

Rebecca Solnit Lit Hub Mar 2020 10min Permalink

Best Article Crime

Trial By Fire

The arson case that may have led Texas to execute an innocent man.

David Grann New Yorker Sep 2009 1h5min Permalink

Crime

Pleas of Insanity: The Mysterious Case of Anthony Montwheeler

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

Crime

Deliverance

A telekinetic teenager became a convicted killer. Can a group of strangers prove that Christina Boyer is really a victim of injustice?

Lauren Markham The Atavist Magazine Feb 2020 50min Permalink

Crime

A Murder Trial in Reverse

Two men were sent to prison for killing a French tourist in Manhattan in 1987. Can they overturn their convictions?

Jennifer Gonnerman New Yorker Feb 2020 20min Permalink

Crime

The Hollywood Con Queen

“You’re preying on someone’s hopes, you’re preying on someone’s dreams. You’re preying on a particularly vulnerable population who all have artistic sensibilities.”

K.J. Yossman Marie Claire Feb 2020 25min Permalink

Crime

A Family Massacre

Menhaz Zaman was always a good boy: obedient, respectful and studious. Or that’s what everyone thought, until one night last summer, when he confessed to slaughtering his entire family with a crowbar

Katherine Laidlaw Toronto Life Feb 2020 15min Permalink

Crime

Bros and Cons

The rise and fall of a Bitcoin mining scheme that was “too big to fail.”

Alan Prendergast Westword Feb 2020 30min Permalink

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