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Crime

Business Crime

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?

John H. Tucker Observer Jun 2019 25min Permalink

Crime

O.J.'s Former Attorney Has Nothing Nice to Say About Anyone—Except O.J.

An interview with F. Lee Bailey about his 60 years of celebrity trials.

Wil S. Hylton Huffington Post Highline Jun 2019 25min Permalink

Crime

Before, and After, the Jogger

Survivors of the real ‘Central Park Five’ attacker speak for the first time.

Sarah Weinman The Cut Jun 2019 25min Permalink

Crime Politics

The Undercover Fascist

A young British man was drawn to a white-supremacist group, until they started plotting to kill.

Ed Caesar New Yorker May 2019 Permalink

Crime

The Billboard

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

Crime

Outlaw Country

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

Arts Crime

Dementia Stopped Peter Max From Painting. For Some, That Spelled a Lucrative Opportunity.

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

Crime Sports

The Final Whistle

Meet the Edward Snowden of European soccer.

Sam Knight New Yorker May 2019 30min Permalink

Best Article Crime

The Single-Mom Murder

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

Crime

The Curious Cons of the Man Who Wouldn't Die

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

Crime

James Ellroy Finally Has Happiness in His Sights

What happens when America’s darkest crime writer sees the light?

Leo Robson 1843 May 2019 15min Permalink

Crime

Lawless

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

Crime

Who Killed the Prime Minister?

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

Crime

Joe Exotic

A dark journey Into the world of a man gone wild.

Leif Reigstad Texas Monthly May 2019 25min Permalink

Crime World

Adventures in the Ransom Trade

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

Crime World

Blow Up: How Half a Tonne of Cocaine Transformed the Life of an Island

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

Best Article Crime

My Cousin Was My Hero. Until the Day He Tried to Kill Me.

A confrontation with masculinity gone awry.

Wil S. Hylton New York Times Magazine May 2019 50min Permalink

Crime Politics

Drugs, Guns and Politics Collided in the Small Town of Port Richey. Two Mayors Went to Jail.

A very Florida investigation.

Rebecca Woolington, Justin Trombly Tampa Bay Times May 2019 20min Permalink

Best Article Crime World

‘Either They Kill Us or We Kill Them’

Inside the struggle to survive in a tiny Honduran neighborhood surrounded by competing gangs.

Azam Ahmed New York Times May 2019 25min Permalink

Crime Sports Media

The Rise and Fall of Marty Tirrell

An Iowa sports radio pioneer turns scammer.

Mark Emmert Des Moines Register Apr 2019 20min Permalink

Crime Movies & TV

The Case of the Stolen Ruby Slippers

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

Crime Tech

'If You Want to Kill Someone, We Are the Right Guys'

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

Business Crime

How Private Equity Is Turning Public Prisons Into Big Profits

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

Crime

The Heart Still Stands

Love, purpose, and prison on the Dakota Prairie.

Elizabeth Flock The Atavist Magazine Apr 2019 30min Permalink

Crime

All That Glitters

Unequal pay, harassment, or worse at the nation’s largest jewelry retailer.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner The New York Times Magazine Apr 2019 30min Permalink

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