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Crime

Crime

Bank of the Underworld

On the global money laundering conspiracy Liberty Reserve.

Jake Halpern The Atlantic Apr 2015 30min Permalink

Crime

Inside the US Marshals’ Secretive, Deadly Detention Empire

They’re supposed to safeguard pretrial detainees. But America’s oldest law enforcement agency is suffering from a massive dereliction of duty.

Seth Freed Wessler Mother Jones Oct 2019 40min Permalink

Business Crime Tech

How Facebook Bought a Police Force

Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by Motherboard show how Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city.

Sarah Emerson Vice Oct 2019 20min Permalink

Crime Science

"I have no desire to open up this man’s skull. I do it because I have to."

Inside a Danish homicide investigation.

Line Vaaben Information Aug 2019 Permalink

Crime Science

The Final Five Percent

When a brain injury leads to a personality change and then prison time, a neuroscientist wonders if his brother could have been saved.

Tim Requarth Longreads Oct 2019 Permalink

Business Crime

The Perfect Dealer

Customer feedback on the New York City coke dealing industry.

Elizabeth Spiers Gawker Jan 2003 10min Permalink

Crime

How to Sell Drugs and Influence Everyone on Instagram

The true tale of a bodybuilder turned social media influencer who built an illicit empire.

John H. Tucker Boston Magazine Oct 2019 25min Permalink

Crime Science Health

The China Connection: How One D.E.A. Agent Cracked a Global Fentanyl Ring

Fentanyl is quickly becoming America’s deadliest drug. But law enforcement couldn’t trace it to its source—until one teenager overdosed in North Dakota.

Alex W. Palmer New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 50min Permalink

Crime Health

One Night at Mount Sinai

How Aja Newman’s trip to the emergency room uncovered the abusive behavior of “rock star” physician David Newman, who ultimately pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual abuse against his patients.

Lisa Miller The Cut Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Crime

"You Are to Stand Down"

How NBC killed its Weinstein story.

Rich McHugh Vanity Fair Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Business Crime Sports

Sinners, Scalpers and the Search for God

Inside an international Mormon ticket reselling ring.

Travis Pilling SB Nation, Epic Oct 2019 40min Permalink

Best Article Crime World

The Harrowing Hours and Defiant Aftermath of the New Zealand Mosque Shootings

After the Christchurch mosque shootings, New Zealand was stunned to silence. But only momentarily.

Sean Flynn GQ Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Crime World

The Rescue

An oil tanker was ordered to save more than 100 migrants floating in the middle of the Mediterranean. Europe didn’t want them. They couldn’t go back to Libya. How would they survive?

Zach Campbell The Atavist Magazine Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Business Crime

The Billion-Dollar High-Speed Internet Scam

Elizabeth Pierce impressed investors with hefty contracts for fiber—until they learned she was the only one who’d signed them.

Austin Carr Bloomberg Businessweek Oct 2019 15min Permalink

Crime Sports

An Unseen Victim of the College Admissions Scandal

One teammate made tennis his whole life. The other had a grandfather whose company invented Hot Pockets. Guess which one went to Georgetown as a Division I recruit.

Daniel Golden, Doris Burke ProPublica Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Crime Sports

Jeff Hatch Was Dealing Fentanyl. And Helping Addicts. Then a Planned Visit from the VP Blew It All Up

Ex-Ivy Leaguer and NFL-er Jeff Hatch spent years telling audiences of his triumph over opioid addiction, to great acclaim. Then as the rehab center he worked at drew national attention, a tortuous backstory of cops, dealers and deception came to light.

Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Oct 2019 25min Permalink

Business Crime

How the Prison Economy Works

From pecan pralines to ‘dots.’

Richard Davies The Guardian Aug 2019 Permalink

Crime Sports

"You Won't Believe What Happened"

The untold story of Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s two visits to the Orchids of Asia Day Spa.

May Jeong Vanity Fair Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Best Article Crime World

The Murder of Jamal Khashoggi

One year ago the journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and never walked out. This is what happened.

Evan Ratliff Insider Oct 2019 45min Permalink

Crime

The Beating Heart

A tragic crime. A medical breakthrough. A last chance at life.

Gene Weingarten Washington Post Magazine Sep 2019 40min Permalink

Crime

"Everything That You're Feeling Is Okay"

After a mass shooting, who cares for the coroners?

Ann Givens GQ, The Trace Sep 2019 25min Permalink

Best Article Crime

What if Your Abusive Husband Is a Cop?

Police departments have become more attentive to officers’ use of excessive force on the job, but that concern rarely extends to the home.

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Sep 2019 40min Permalink

Crime History

The Secret Story of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’s Last Tango

According to the movie version, they died side by side, guns blazing, in the crosshairs of half a Bolivian regiment. It’s a great Hollywood ending that happens to be true, mostly: they left America… then died in Bolivia. What Hollywood didn’t know is that Butch and Sundance escaped.

Patrick Symmes The Daily Beast Sep 2019 Permalink

Crime

The Hunt for the Serial Killer of Laredo

Last September, law enforcement officers were confounded by a murderer targeting prostitutes along the border. As the investigation intensified, they discovered that the killer had been hiding in plain sight.

Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Sep 2019 Permalink

Crime Health

We Didn't Stand a Chance Against Opioids

What the opioid crisis has done to one indigenous family in Alaska–the writer’s.

Joshua Hunt The New Republic Sep 2019 15min Permalink

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