"Everything Was Completely Destroyed"
What it was like to be a rank-and-file Sony employee after the hack.
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What it was like to be a rank-and-file Sony employee after the hack.
Amanda Hess Slate Nov 2015 20min Permalink
After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work that cracked the case and brought down the government.
Ben Taub New Yorker Dec 2020 Permalink
Armed with a handgun, a fake ID card and disguises, Miriam Rodríguez was a one-woman detective squad, attempting to catch her daughter’s murderers in the border town of San Fernando.
Azam Ahmed New York Times Dec 2020 Permalink
In 1986, two lovebirds busted out of a coed prison in a hijacked helicopter. They’ve been trying to escape ever since.
David Gauvey Herbert Esquire Dec 2020 30min Permalink
Did an affair with a Russian agent push Overstock’s Patrick Byrne too far?
Sheelah Kolhatkar The New Yorker Dec 2020 30min Permalink
In St. Louis, a former rival could end up springing Felix Key from a 28 year sentence.
Ryan Krull Riverfront Times Dec 2020 Permalink
Trawick was alone in his apartment when an officer pushed open the door. He was holding a bread knife and a stick. “Why are you in my home?” he asked. He never got an answer.
Eric Umansky ProPublica Dec 2020 25min Permalink
When model Kimberly Fattorini died after a night out in Hollywood, everyone assumed she’d accidentally overdosed. But there was more to the story.
K.J. Yossman Elle Nov 2020 Permalink
Shaun MacDonald was an ambitious tech innovator whose start-up was going to revolutionize the crypto economy. His wealthy investors had no idea that their charismatic founder was really Boaz Manor, a notorious Canadian white-collar criminal.
Leah McLaren Toronto Life Nov 2020 25min Permalink
Twenty-five years ago this month, “superpredator” was coined in The Weekly Standard. Media spread the term like wildfire, creating repercussions on policy and culture we are still reckoning with today.
Carroll Bogert, Lynell Hancock The Marshall Project Nov 2020 15min Permalink
How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.
Jill Lepore New Yorker Nov 2020 25min Permalink
When human blood overtakes a house amid racial turmoil in 1987 Atlanta, terrifying the family inside, a mystery opens up that persists to this day.
Danny Cherry Jr. Truly*Adventurous Oct 2020 30min Permalink
Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.
Rebecca Mead New Yorker Nov 2020 30min Permalink
It’s been 14 years since Bryan Pata was shot to death just after football practice. He was months away from the NFL Draft. His killer is still free.
Paula Lavigne, Elizabeth Merrill ESPN Nov 2020 40min Permalink
A bizarre 1970 Arctic killing over a jug of raisin wine shows that we need to think about crime outside our atmosphere now.
A well-heeled doctor. An outlaw biker gang. A massive painkiller supply chain.
Chris Pomorski Highline Nov 2020 40min Permalink
On the legal quagmire facing the President if Joe Biden wins.
Jane Mayer New Yorker Nov 2020 25min Permalink
Vince Ramos wanted Phantom Secure to be the Uber of privacy-focused, luxury-branded phones—flood the market with devices, and sort out the law later. Then the FBI investigated him.
Joseph Cox Motherboard Oct 2020 35min Permalink
“I watched my friend dying on Facebook. But it was all a GoFundMe scam.”
Sarah Treleaven OneZero Oct 2020 25min Permalink
DNA evidence proved Lydell Grant’s innocence. So why won’t the state’s highest criminal court exonerate him?
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Oct 2020 40min Permalink
A former inmate on justice, violence, and jail time.
Reginald Dwayne Betts New York Times Magazine Oct 2020 20min Permalink
When Jennifer Farber disappeared in 2019, suspicion immediately centered on her husband and press coverage almost exclusively painted her as a missing suburban mom. But reducing the 50-year-old’s life to a familiar tabloid trope missed so much of her story.
Vanessa Grigoriadis Vanity Fair Oct 2020 30min Permalink
Big banks entrusted money to an armored truck company GardaWorld. It secretly lost track of millions.
Bethany Barnes Tampa Bay Times Oct 2020 25min Permalink
In 2003, a man robbed a bank with a bomb around his neck. It exploded shortly thereafter, taking his life and leaving authorities to try to figure out who had put it there.
Rich Schapiro Wired Dec 2010 20min Permalink
What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, “genius,” Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.
Leland Nally Mother Jones Oct 2020 40min Permalink