The Hollywood Vigilante
Hunting child predators with actress Marisol Nichols.
Hunting child predators with actress Marisol Nichols.
Erika Hayasaki Marie Claire May 2020 20min Permalink
How Wall Street enabled a global financial scandal.
Andrew Cockburn Harper's Magazine Apr 2020 40min Permalink
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
A young dealer goes on the lam after selling multiple masterpieces to several buyers simultaneously.
Oliver Franklin-Wallis GQ Apr 2020 30min Permalink
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
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
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
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
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.
A fatal overdose, a stunning coincidence, and a mother’s long quest to heal.
Max Blau The Atavist Magazine Mar 2020 35min Permalink
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
An early profile of Carole Baskin, proprietor of Big Cat Rescue in Tampa.
Leonora LaPeter Anton Tampa Bay Times Nov 2007 15min Permalink
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
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
He was jailed for killing her daughter. Then she feared the police had the wrong man.
Gareth Evans BBC Mar 2020 30min Permalink
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
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
On the end of Harvey Weinstein.
Rebecca Solnit Lit Hub Mar 2020 10min Permalink
The arson case that may have led Texas to execute an innocent man.
David Grann New Yorker Sep 2009 1h5min Permalink
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
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
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
“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
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
The rise and fall of a Bitcoin mining scheme that was “too big to fail.”
Alan Prendergast Westword Feb 2020 30min Permalink