A Brutal Murder, a Wearable Witness, and an Unlikely Suspect
Can Karen Navarra’s Fitbit explain her murder?
Can Karen Navarra’s Fitbit explain her murder?
Lauren Smiley Wired Sep 2019 30min Permalink
They were an organized group of ex-strippers, plus a few role players recruited from Craigslist. They fished for marks in strip clubs, Wall Street cocktail bars, and even TGI Fridays, and then lured them to strip clubs. The marks woke up with little memory of the night before and their credit cards maxed out.
Jessica Pressler New York Dec 2015 30min Permalink
A woman is accused of lying about being raped. Years later and several states away, the story changed.
T. Christian Miller, Ken Armstrong ProPublica, The Marshall Project Dec 2015 50min Permalink
An unarmed man, a cop charged with murder, and the challenge of policing mental illness.
Steve Fennessy Atlanta Magazine Sep 2019 25min Permalink
When he was 2, Strider was severely beaten by his mother’s boyfriend. Today, at 6, Strider lives with his grandparents in rural Maine, in and out of poverty, trying to make it.
Sarah Schweitzer Boston Globe Nov 2015 35min Permalink
In the days after 9/11, a photo of an unknown man falling from the South Tower appeared in publications across the globe. This is the story of that photograph, and of the search to find the man pictured in it.
The M.I.T. Media Lab knew Epstein was a convicted sex offender. They asked for his help anyway, then covered their tracks.
Ronan Farrow New Yorker Sep 2019 10min Permalink
He helped build an artists’ utopia. Now he faces trial for 36 deaths there.
Elizabeth Weil New York Times Magazine Dec 2018 45min Permalink
Joe Exotic bred lions, tigers, and ligers at his roadside zoo. He was a modern Barnum who found an equally extraordinary nemesis.
Robert Moor New York Sep 2019 50min Permalink
In 2008, a federally owned power plant spewed coal sludge over 300 acres in Tennessee. Now, 40 people who helped clean up the mess are dead and 300 ill.
J.R. Sullivan Men's Journal Aug 2019 35min Permalink
Joe Ford, car detective, searches the world for stolen rare automobiles on the black market.
Stayton Bonner Esquire Aug 2019 25min Permalink
On life as a police patrolman.
Originally published in 1997 under a pen name in The New Yorker. Appears now for the first time under the author’s known identity.
Edward Conlon The Sun Magazine Nov 1997 35min Permalink
How an obsession with school shooters led to a murder plot.
Rachel Monroe The Guardian Aug 2019 30min Permalink
A tale of missing money, heated lunchroom arguments, and flaxseed pizza crusts.
Sarah Schweitzer The Atlantic Aug 2019 20min Permalink
A Texas con artist made millions promising prisoners’ families the thing they wanted most: to bring their children home.
Christie Thompson The Marshall Project Aug 2019 30min Permalink
You’ve never heard of her, but somewhere in America, a top-secret investigator known as the Savant is infiltrating online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country.
Andrea Stanley Cosmopolitan Aug 2019 15min Permalink
Adapted by the author of “Black Hawk Down.”
Mark Bowden Insider Jul 2019 40min Permalink
“The gun debate would change in an instant if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront everyday.”
Jason Fagone Huffington Post Highline Apr 2017 30min Permalink
For more than 40 years, a former Olympian allegedly has been molesting boys and young men. Now, they’re speaking out.
Mike Kessler, Mark Fainaru-Wada ESPN Aug 2019 40min Permalink
On lawyer Alan Dershowitz.
Connie Bruck The New Yorker Jul 2019 30min Permalink
It took only a handful of people to wrongly convict Ed Ates of murder. It took an army to free him from prison. Now comes the hard part.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Aug 2019 40min Permalink
Paul Gonzales scammed his online dates into buying him expensive dinners. Then they made him pay.
Jeff Maysh Daily Beast Jul 2019 30min Permalink
He was a Harvard Law professor who taught a class on judgment, which made him an unlikely target for an elaborate paternity scheme that nearly cost him his house and family.
Kera Bolonik New York Jul 2019 30min Permalink
How a Northern Californian rapper ended up facing life after being hired to produce a CD titled Generations of United Norteños – Till Eternity that may have served as a recruiting tool for the prison gang Nuestra Familia.
Justin Berton East Bay Express Oct 2003 Permalink
Dozens of convicted criminals have been hired as cops in Alaska communities. Often, they are the only applicants. In Stebbins, every cop has a criminal record, including the chief.
Kyle Hopkins Anchorage Daily News Jul 2019 20min Permalink