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Crime

Crime

Karl Taylor's Death Was an Avoidable Tragedy

American prisons can’t handle mentally ill inmates.

Tom Robbins The Atlantic Nov 2018 25min Permalink

Crime Politics

The Unsatisfying Truth About Hateful Online Rhetoric and Violence

Two angry men submerged themselves in the far-right internet. One committed murder. The other walked away. Why?

Joseph Bernstein Buzzfeed Nov 2018 15min Permalink

Crime

The Would-Be Terrorist vs. the FBI

The story of a marginalized, mentally ill young man who drew the FBI’s attention with his social-media posts and then staggered into its elaborately constructed snare.

Mike Mariani GQ Nov 2018 25min Permalink

Crime

The Fire and Everything After

After flames engulfed an Atlanta highway last year, police arrested Basil Eleby for arson. The fire could have destroyed his life. Instead, it may have saved it.

Max Blau Atlanta Magazine Nov 2018 20min Permalink

Crime

Chardon, Ohio

Life in a small town, six years after a school shooting.

Libby Copeland Esquire Nov 2018 25min Permalink

Crime

How a Grieving Father Is Uncovering Mexico’s Mass Graves

Victims of Mexico’s drug violence often end up in unmarked graves. This man set out to find them.

Matthew Bremner Men’s Journal Nov 2018 15min Permalink

Crime

The Watcher

The haunting of 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey.

Reeves Wiedeman New York Nov 2018 20min Permalink

Crime

Everyone Believed Larry Nassar

The predatory trainer may have just taken down USA Gymnastics. How did he deceive so many for so long?

Kerry Howley New York Nov 2018 20min Permalink

Crime Sports Travel

Lost Soul

The inspiring life and mysterious death of NBA player Bison Dele.

Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Oct 2013 40min Permalink

Business Crime

The War Inside 7-Eleven

The company has been battling its store owners for years, using tactics that include planting hidden cameras and and tailing franchisees in unmarked vehicles. It seems to have found a new tool: U.S. immigration authorities.

Lauren Etter, Michael Smith Businessweek Nov 2018 15min Permalink

Crime Travel

The Stranger in the Shelter

Two people went for a hike on the Appalachian Trail. Only one made it out.

Earl Swift Outside Nov 2018 30min Permalink

Best Article Crime

Fog Count

What prison does to a person.

Leslie Jamison Oxford American Apr 2013 25min Permalink

Best Article Crime

U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don’t Know How to Stop It.

For two decades, domestic counterterrorism strategy has ignored the rising danger of far-right extremism. In the atmosphere of willful indifference, a virulent movement has grown and metastasized.

Janet Reitman New York Times Magazine Nov 2018 50min Permalink

Crime Religion

Cardinal Sin

Cardinal Bernard Law knew as early as 1984 John Geoghan was molesting children. The priest would not be defrocked for 14 years.

Kristin Lombardi Boston Phoenix Mar 2001 25min Permalink

Crime

The Time Bandits of Southern California

The true story of a ring of thieves who stole millions of dollars’ worth of luxury watches—and the special agent who brought them down.

Amy Wallace GQ Oct 2018 25min Permalink

Crime

The Get-Rich-Quick Scheme That Almost Killed a German Soccer Team

An electrician’s odd plot to make $607,933.50.

Thomas Rogers Businessweek Oct 2018 10min Permalink

Best Article Crime

America’s Other Family-Separation Crisis

On incarcerated mothers and their decimated families.

Sarah Stillman New Yorker Oct 2018 35min Permalink

Best Article Crime

After the Fire

A murder, a missing deer head, and a Mr. Big sting.

Jana G. Pruden The Globe and Mail Oct 2018 30min Permalink

Business Crime

The Unsolved Murder of an Unusual Billionaire

Last December, a Canadian pharmaceuticals executive and his wife were found strangled in their home. No one knows who did it or why, but everyone has a theory.

Matthew Campbell Businessweek Oct 2018 30min Permalink

Crime

Getting Out

Could an ex-convict become an attorney?

Reginald Dwayne Betts New York Times Magazine Oct 2018 30min Permalink

Crime

Witness to the Killing

In many homicides, police believe they know the killer’s identity but can’t get a witness to cooperate.

Wesley Lowery, Dalton Bennett The Washington Post Oct 2018 15min Permalink

Crime

It Started as an Online Gaming Prank. Then It Turned Deadly.

The story of a serial swatter.

Brendan Koerner Wired Oct 2018 25min Permalink

Crime

Acts of Conviction

Philadelphia’s District Attorney reinvents the role of the modern prosecutor.

Jennifer Gonnerman New Yorker Oct 2018 30min Permalink

Crime

Brainwashed, Enslaved, and Trafficked in Mountain View

A slick-talking con artist turned an innocent brother and sister into his personal slaves.

Nick Pachelli San Francisco Magazine Oct 2018 20min Permalink

Best Article Crime

How I Accidentally Wound Up Running an Outlaw Biker Gang in Ohio

An undercover federal agent behind a massive sting operation that took down dozens of gun-runners and drug-dealers tells all.

Mike Kessler, Frank Dalesio Medium Oct 2018 25min Permalink

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