The Grindr Grifter
Daniel Spence used dating apps to scam his way across the U.S. Could he be caught before taking over one of Brooklyn’s hottest media companies?
Daniel Spence used dating apps to scam his way across the U.S. Could he be caught before taking over one of Brooklyn’s hottest media companies?
John H. Tucker Observer Jun 2019 25min Permalink
An interview with F. Lee Bailey about his 60 years of celebrity trials.
Wil S. Hylton Huffington Post Highline Jun 2019 25min Permalink
Survivors of the real ‘Central Park Five’ attacker speak for the first time.
Sarah Weinman The Cut Jun 2019 25min Permalink
A young British man was drawn to a white-supremacist group, until they started plotting to kill.
Ed Caesar New Yorker May 2019 Permalink
After Stephanie Montgomery says she was raped at the strip club where she worked, she went to the manager and the police. Nothing happened. That’s when she decided to tell her story as big as she could.
Kathy Dobie California Sunday May 2019 35min Permalink
Klamath Country, Oregon, is the perfect place to disappear–and also a very dangerous place when someone is threatening your life.
Emma Marris The Atavist Magazine May 2019 40min Permalink
Now Peter Max’s associates are trading lurid allegations of kidnapping, hired goons, attempted murder by Brazil nut and art fraud on the high seas.
Amy Chozick New York Times May 2019 20min Permalink
Meet the Edward Snowden of European soccer.
Sam Knight New Yorker May 2019 30min Permalink
She moved to Cape Cod to escape the glitzy Manhattan world she born into. The only witness to her murder was her 2-year-old daughter. Everyone she knew, it seemed, was a suspect.
Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Feb 2002 25min Permalink
What’s wrong with some forgery, fraud, and crystal meth if you’ll soon be gone? A better question: What the hell happens if you survive?
Nathaniel Penn GQ May 2019 30min Permalink
What happens when America’s darkest crime writer sees the light?
Leo Robson 1843 May 2019 15min Permalink
At least one in three Alaska villages has no local law enforcement. Sexual abuse runs rampant, public safety resources are scarce, and Gov. Mike Dunleavy wants to cut the budget.
Kyle Hopkins Anchorage Daily News, ProPublica May 2019 25min Permalink
Three decades ago, Olof Palme was assassinated on Stockholm’s busiest street. The case remains unsolved.
Imogen West-Knights The Guardian May 2019 20min Permalink
A dark journey Into the world of a man gone wild.
Leif Reigstad Texas Monthly May 2019 25min Permalink
On the revolutionaries, highly-paid negotiators, former spies, foreign businessmen and their families, who all played roles in the massive Colombian kidnap and ransom industry during its 1990s heyday.
William Prochnau Vanity Fair May 1998 20min Permalink
What happens when a great deal of cocaine suddenly washes up on the shores of a very small island.
Matthew Bremner The Guardian May 2019 20min Permalink
A confrontation with masculinity gone awry.
Wil S. Hylton New York Times Magazine May 2019 50min Permalink
A very Florida investigation.
Rebecca Woolington, Justin Trombly Tampa Bay Times May 2019 20min Permalink
Inside the struggle to survive in a tiny Honduran neighborhood surrounded by competing gangs.
Azam Ahmed New York Times May 2019 25min Permalink
An Iowa sports radio pioneer turns scammer.
Mark Emmert Des Moines Register Apr 2019 20min Permalink
How a big crime in a small town produced a whodunit as gripping and colorful as “The Wizard of Oz” itself.
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson The Washington Post Magazine Apr 2019 55min Permalink
In a small Minnesota town, an IT technician found his way to the darkest corner of the web. Then he made a deadly plan.
Mara Hvistendahl Wired Apr 2019 25min Permalink
Food. Phone calls. Medical care. Transport. Even in public prisons, “piecemeal privatization” is transforming incarceration in America.
Tim Requarth The Nation Apr 2019 30min Permalink
Love, purpose, and prison on the Dakota Prairie.
Elizabeth Flock The Atavist Magazine Apr 2019 30min Permalink
Unequal pay, harassment, or worse at the nation’s largest jewelry retailer.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner The New York Times Magazine Apr 2019 30min Permalink