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Crime

Crime Tech World

The Hacker Who Took Down a Country

Daniel Kaye, also known as Spdrman, found regular jobs tough but corporate espionage easy. He’s about to get out of prison.

Kit Chellel Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2019 20min Permalink

Crime Sports Health

How a Former Bank Robber Saved Her Football Star Son

Antonio Carrion was headed for the NFL when the voices started and he drifted away. Then his estranged mother finished her time for robbery and saved him from a system that’s unkind to the mentally ill.

Vince Beiser Los Angeles Magazine Dec 2019 20min Permalink

Crime

Stolen and Erased

A Navajo girl was exploited and sex trafficked in urban and rural New Mexico. Why did so many fail to help her?

Nick Pachelli Searchlight New Mexico Dec 2019 20min Permalink

Crime

He Killed for His Cartel. Then He Exposed It.

They took away everything left in me that was human and made me a monster."

Azam Ahmed. Paulina Villegas The New York Times Dec 2019 25min Permalink

Crime

Click Here to Kill

The dark world of online murder markets.

Brian Merchant Harper's Dec 2019 30min Permalink

Crime Tech

The Influencer and the Hit Man

How a war over a domain name ended in a bloody shootout.

Ian Frisch OneZero Dec 2019 25min Permalink

Crime History

The Long-Forgotten Vigilante Murders of the San Luis Valley

How history forgot Felipe and Vivián Espinosa, two of the American West’s most brutal killers—and the complicated story behind their murderous rampage.

Robert Sanchez 5280 Dec 2019 20min Permalink

Crime

‘The Big House and the Picket Fence’

Tonya Crowder still dreams that she and her fiance, Roosevelt Myles—who’s been in prison for decades fighting what he says is a wrongful conviction—will one day build a life together somewhere “nice, quiet, and simple.”

Mari Cohen Chicago Reader Nov 2019 25min Permalink

Best Article Crime

He’s a Liar, a Con Artist and a Snitch. His Testimony Could Soon Send a Man to His Death.

Paul Skalnik has a decades-long criminal record and may be one of the most prolific jailhouse informants in U.S. history. The state of Florida is planning to execute a man based largely on his word.

Pamela Colloff ProPublica Dec 2019 55min Permalink

Crime

“Worked at Vice Then Went to Jail”

How a bunch of Canadian hipsters wound up smuggling cocaine (and getting caught).

Kate Knibbs The Ringer Dec 2019 25min Permalink

Crime

"Your Honor, Can I Tell the Whole Story?"

To read the transcript of Erin Hunter’s trial, which runs all of 81 pages and can be digested in half an hour, is to encounter a disregard for human dignity instrumental in producing the most sprawling system of incarceration in the world.

Nick Chrastil The Atavist Magazine Dec 2019 30min Permalink

Crime Tech

Tinder Lets Known Sex Offenders Use the App. It’s Not the Only One.

Match Group, which owns most major online dating services, screens for sexual predators on Match—but not on Tinder, OkCupid or Plenty of Fish. A spokesperson said, “There are definitely registered sex offenders on our free products.”

Hillary Flynn, Keith Cousins, Elizabeth Naismith Picciani Buzzfeed, ProPublica Dec 2019 30min Permalink

Crime

Prepping for Parole

A group of volunteers is helping incarcerated people negotiate a system that is all but broken.

Jennifer Gonnerman New Yorker Nov 2019 25min Permalink

Best Article Crime Sports

The NBA's Most Unlikely Heist

How a Sacramento Kings executive stole more than $13 million from the team—and almost got away with it.

Kevin Arnovitz ESPN Nov 2019 25min Permalink

Crime World

The Designers and the Don

How two interior decorators took the fall for the Cali Cartel.

Gus Garcia-Roberts USA Today Nov 2019 50min Permalink

Crime

Hundreds of Florida Inmates Are Serving Drug Sentences No Longer in State Law

Florida lawmakers agreed the state’s old drug sentencing laws went too far. But that means nothing to people serving time.

Emily L. Mahoney Tampa Bay Times Nov 2019 15min Permalink

Crime Sports

The Line of Fire

Gun violence, high school football and what coaches are doing to keep their players safe

Natalie Weiner SB Nation Nov 2019 30min Permalink

Best Article Crime Tech

The Strange Life and Mysterious Death of a Virtuoso Coder

Jerold Haas was on the brink of blockchain riches. Then his body was found in the woods of southern Ohio.

Brendan I. Koerner Wired Nov 2019 35min Permalink

Crime

Undercover in the Orthodox Underworld

Whenever the black dress came out, Jessica Weisman’s mother knew she was “going after the Jewish people again.”

Dan Slater Gen Nov 2019 25min Permalink

Crime

The Big Bitcoin Heist

With its cheap geothermal energy and low crime rate, Iceland has become the world’s leading miner of digital currency. Then the crypto-crooks showed up.

Mark Seal Vanity Fair Nov 2019 20min Permalink

Best Article Crime

The Chameleon

The many lives of imposter Frédéric Bourdin.

David Grann New Yorker Aug 2008 45min Permalink

Crime Tech

The Porch Pirate of Potrero Hill Can’t Believe It Came to This

When a longtime resident started stealing her neighbors’ Amazon packages, she entered a vortex of smart cameras, Nextdoor rants, and cellphone surveillance.

Lauren Smiley The Atlantic Nov 2019 35min Permalink

Crime

The Fisherman's Secret

A modern-day treasure hunt.

Tara Duggan, Jason Fagone San Francisco Chronicle Nov 2019 30min Permalink

Crime Tech Travel

I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb

While searching for the person who grifted me in Chicago, I discovered just how easy it is for users of the short-term rental platform to get exploited.

Allie Conti Vice Oct 2019 25min Permalink

Best Article Crime

Midnight in the Garden of East Texas

A charming assistant funeral home director named Bernie Tiede murders a wealthy widow, keeps her in a freezer for months, finally gets caught, and still has the town's sympathy as his case goes to trial. The story that became Richard Linklater's Bernie.

Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jan 1998 20min Permalink

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