Murder on Union Hill Road
In April 2016, eight family members were slain in their homes in Ohio. Nine months later, the killer or killers are still on the loose, and the town has all but forgotten the crimes.
In April 2016, eight family members were slain in their homes in Ohio. Nine months later, the killer or killers are still on the loose, and the town has all but forgotten the crimes.
Kathleen Hale Hazlitt Jan 2017 25min Permalink
The president of the Philippines’ kill list is reputed to have over million names of supposed drug pushers and addicts, including many mayors and politicians. There is no reliable way to get off the list other than dying in a hail of bullets from assassins on motorbikes.
Patrick Symmes New York Times Magazine Jan 2017 15min Permalink
In 1977, Johanna van Haarlem finally tracked down the son, Erwin, she had abandoned as a baby 33 years earlier. She immediately travelled to London to meet him. It was the perfect cover.
BBC Jeff Maysh Jan 2017 10min Permalink
A trip to Râmnicu Vâlcea, a town of 120,000 where the primary (and lucrative) industry is Internet scams.
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee Wired Feb 2011 10min Permalink
The impact of a life map and a stipend on those in the gang life in Richmond, CA.
Jason Motlagh The Guardian Jun 2016 30min Permalink
Looking for answers in India after a seeker disappears and his guide commits suicide.
Ariel Sophia Bardi Roads and Kingdoms Jan 2017 10min Permalink
She went to jail 35 years ago after driving the getaway car in an infamous robbery and defiantly refusing to admit the act was wrong. Her sentence was 75 years. But something changed in prison — Judy Clark went from radical to model inmate. This week her sentence was commuted.
Tom Robbins New York Times Magazine Jan 2012 25min Permalink
A 48-hour reconstruction of the Breitscheidplatz Attack and the political response.
Der Spiegel Dec 2016 25min Permalink
In 1991, Edwin Debrow shot and killed a cab driver on the east side of San Antonio. He was twelve years old. Twenty-five years later, he is still in prison. Is that justice? And is there room for mercy?
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Dec 2016 30min Permalink
A ragtag band of pirate-Jihadists grab Americans from a diving resort in the Phillipines and lead them on an odyssey through the jungles of an archipelago with the competing interests of the Phillipines’ Navy and Army, the U.S. Military, and the C.I.A. thwarting their rescue.
Mark Bowden The Atlantic Mar 2007 45min Permalink
“If we’re sitting here bored, getting high and we got guns around, it ain’t nothing else to do.”
John Eligon New York Times Dec 2016 10min Permalink
When the prosecutor in a 1924 trial focused on the murder of a priest backed the suspect–and everything that followed.
Ken Armstrong The Marshall Project Dec 2016 25min Permalink
He was a Baptist who became a Muslim, a Marine who became a bank robber, a criminal who became an informant, and a student who became an imam. But was Marcus Robertson connected to the deadliest mass shooting in American history?
David Gauvey Herbert The Atavist Magazine Dec 2016 1h Permalink
A small town upstate, a Queens ambulance veteran, and a murder
Nina Burleigh New York Times Apr 2014 20min Permalink
Henry Heimlich saved untold choking victimes when he invented his maneuver in 1974. Since then, he’s searched in vain for another miracle treatment—pushing ethical boundaries along the way. Now at the end of his career, Heimlich has hired an investigator to find an anonymous critic working full-time to destroy his legacy.
Jason Zengerle The New Republic Apr 2007 25min Permalink
In the beginning, they were known as die Dönermorde – the kebab murders. The victims had little in common, apart from immigrant backgrounds and the modest businesses they ran.
Thomas Meaney The Guardian Dec 2016 25min Permalink
'He collapsed on Granville Road, within 100 meters of the house he was renting for $20,000 a month. Police and medics were called to the scene, but within 30 minutes, Perepilichny was pronounced dead. Police told the press the death was “unexplained.” A 44-year-old man of average build and above-average wealth had simply fallen down and died in the leafy suburb he’d recently begun calling home.'
Jeffrey E. Stern The Atlantic Dec 2016 30min Permalink
Did a forgotten black gumshoe inspire the famous works of both Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett?
Daniel Miller LA Times Nov 2014 10min Permalink
Rosie grew up in a succession of decrepit houses in South London with one man and a rotating cast of women, who claimed that they had found her on the streets as an infant. The man, Aravindan Balakrishnan—Comrade Bala, as he wanted to be called—was the head of the household. He instructed the women to deny Rosie’s existence to outsiders, and forbade them from comforting her when she cried.
Simon Parkin New Yorker Dec 2016 10min Permalink
How FPAQ, the Canadian group that controls 72 percent of the world’s supply of maple syrup, caused one of the greatest agricultural crimes in history.
Rich Cohen Vanity Fair Dec 2016 15min Permalink
A minute by minute account of the officers and first responders on the scene of the San Bernadino shooting and the subsequent firefight between police and and the Farooks.
Brian Ross, Megan Christie, Josh Margolin, Rhonda Schwartz, Paul Blake ABC News Dec 2016 10min Permalink
Inside the fall of Village Voice Media’s backpage.com.
Kate Knibbs The Ringer Nov 2016 25min Permalink
Mary Kuanen escaped the violence of Sudan only to live through her husband’s murder in suburban Denver. This is her life today.
Robert Sanchez 5280 Dec 2016 Permalink
The intricate dance between highly organized ultras fan organizations, the teams they support, and the mafia for control of the center of curva and the lucrative ticket-touting opportunities that come with it.
Tobias Jones The Guardian Dec 2016 20min Permalink
When a husband and wife killed 14 at an office Christmas party in San Bernardino, they also orphaned their 6-month-old daughter. This is her life — and the life of the aunt and uncle who want to adopt her — a year later.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Nov 2016 Permalink