The Real Heroes Are Dead
The life story of Rick Rescorla: immigrant, war hero, husband, and head of security at Morgan Stanley/Dean Witter, occupant of 22 floors in the South Tower on September 11, 2001.
The life story of Rick Rescorla: immigrant, war hero, husband, and head of security at Morgan Stanley/Dean Witter, occupant of 22 floors in the South Tower on September 11, 2001.
James B. Stewart New Yorker Feb 2002 40min Permalink
Andrew Goldstein’s crime set in motion a dramatic shift in how we care for the violent mentally ill. Including for himself—when he’s released this month.
John J. Lennon, Bill Keller The Marshall Project Sep 2018 15min Permalink
Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry—infiltrating the national oil company, selling stolen fuel on the black market and engaging in open war with the military.
Seth Harp Rolling Stone Sep 2018 30min Permalink
Minara Akhter came to America with uncertainty and hope. Then her husband, a Muslim religious leader, was murdered in a suspected hate crime.
Rahima Nasa ProPublica Sep 2018 15min Permalink
Millions of American children were placed in the Catholic orphanage system. Some didn’t make it out alive.
Christine Kenneally Buzzfeed Aug 2018 1h50min Permalink
Matthew Weigman was blind, overweight, 14, and alone. He could also do anything he wanted with a phone. Sometimes that meant calling Lindsay Lohan. Other times it meant sending a SWAT team to an enemy’s door.
David Kushner Rolling Stone Sep 2009 25min Permalink
Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation ‘Final Answer.’
Jeff Maysh Daily Beast Jul 2018 35min Permalink
For years sheriffs, mental health advocates, families and prosecutors have sounded the alarm about the number of people with mental illness arrested and locked up, many for minor crimes.
Gary A. Harki The Virginian-Pilot Aug 2018 20min Permalink
Neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch left a trail of bodies and paralyzed patients across Texas.
Matt Goodman D Magazine Oct 2016 25min Permalink
Inside a sleazy FBI sting involving diet clinics, fitness models, money laundering, and a supposed plot to hire a hitman.
Trevor Aaronson theintercept.com Aug 2018 30min Permalink
Is the Chinese government behind one of the boldest art-crime waves in history?
Alex W. Palmer GQ Aug 2018 20min Permalink
Sada Abe, a former geisha, became a sensation in 1930s Japan after erotically asphyxiating her married lover, cutting off his penis and testicles and carrying them in her kimono for days.
Twelve years ago, a Saudi Arabian man, whom federal authorities had long suspected of having ties to terrorism, was sentenced to life in prison on multiple counts of unlawful sexual contact. To this day, al-Turki has maintained that he’s innocent and was instead the target of post-9/11 anti-Muslim sentiment.
Chris Outcalt 5280 Aug 2018 25min Permalink
The most prolific bank robber in Texas history.
Helen Thorpe Texas Monthly Mar 1997 30min Permalink
She secretly recorded her brother, Holland’s most notorious criminal, confessing to multiple murders. Will he exact revenge?
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Aug 2018 45min Permalink
Monika Glennon had one brief exchange with a complete stranger in a Facebook comment section. That stranger destroyed her life.
Kashmir Hill Gizmodo Jul 2018 10min Permalink
Seth Herter’s life was full of delusions. But the murder was all too real.
Doyle Murphy Riverfront Times Jul 2018 20min Permalink
A comprehensive history of the case against the Menendez brothers, built primarily on secret audio recording made by their self-promoting therapist.
Dominick Dunne Vanity Fair Oct 1990 55min Permalink
In 1982, a family disappeared from their Los Angeles home. A writer and former neighbor is still trying to put the pieces together.
Stacy Perman Los Angeles Jul 2018 30min Permalink
He was a far-right, pro-Trump media figure looking for his big break. Then Lane Davis stabbed his father to death.
Joseph Bernstein Buzzfeed Jul 2018 25min Permalink
“The academy’s prestige has been shattered, probably forever,” by allegations of sexual harassment and corruption.
Andrew Brown The Guardian Jul 2018 20min Permalink
In short order, eight gay men in Texas were murdered by teenage boys.
Buzz Bissinger Vanity Fair Jan 1995 35min Permalink
She calls claiming to be Amy Pascal, Kathleen Kennedy, or some other powerful woman in entertainment. She knows personal details about her mark as well as the woman she is impersonating.
She offers work, then sends them—photographers, make-up artists, soldiers—around the world to bilk them out of modest amounts of cash.
Scott Johnson The Hollywood Reporter Jul 2018 Permalink
The author travels to Mexico to meet a retired assassin and kidnapper, now himself a target of the cartels that once employed him.
Charles Bowden Harper's Apr 2009 35min Permalink
After the blockbuster success of Kong: Skull Island, director Jordan Vogt-Roberts fled Hollywood to live the expat dream life in Vietnam. Then, one night at a Saigon club, he was brutally beaten by a mysterious mob of gangsters. Who were these monsters? Soon, he began directing something entirely different—an international hunt for the men who nearly killed him.
Max Marshall GQ Jul 2018 20min Permalink