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Crime

Crime

Why America Will Never Stop Trying To Solve JonBenét Ramsey’s Murder

An examination of the continued fascination with the 6-year-old beauty queen, 20 years after her murder.

Sarah Marshall Buzzfeed Sep 2016 20min Permalink

Business Crime Food

How Hampton Creek Sold Silicon Valley on a Fake-Mayo Miracle

With Just Mayo, Josh Tetrick wanted to build the first sustainable-food unicorn. He’ll need to fend off the feds first.

Peter Waldman, Ellen Huet, Olivia Zaleski Businessweek Sep 2016 20min Permalink

Best Article Crime

For Diamond Reynolds, Trying to Move Past 10 Tragic Minutes of Video

She entered the national spotlight after she live streamed the death of her boyfriend, Philando Castile, who was shot by police during a traffic stop. This is Diamond Reynolds’s life today.

Eli Saslow Washington Post Sep 2016 15min Permalink

Crime

China’s Gold Rush in the Hills of Appalachia

With prices spiralling, poachers are digging for ginseng in the North Carolina hills.

Suzy Khimm Foreign Policy Sep 2016 20min Permalink

Best Article Business Crime

In Secretive Marijuana Industry, Whispers of Abuse and Trafficking

For decades, “trimmigrants” have flooded California’s Emerald Triangle during harvest season in search of highly paid seasonal work. In the isolation of the dense forest, sexual assault is commonplace and rarely investigated.

Shoshana Walter Reveal Sep 2016 35min Permalink

Crime

A Lynching Kept Out of Sight

Pvt. Felix Hall died in the only known murder of its kind on a U.S. military base.

Alexa Mills Washington Post Sep 2016 20min Permalink

Crime Science

Ruffled Feathers

The story of a pair of murdered whooping cranes and just how difficult it is to save a endangered species.

Sonia Smith Texas Monthly Sep 2016 25min Permalink

Best Article Crime

Framed

She was the Southern Californian PTA mom everyone knew. Who would want to harm her?

Christopher Goffard Los Angeles Times Aug 2016 1h15min Permalink

Best Article Crime Movies & TV

The Revenge of Roger’s Angels

How women at Fox News ended the career of Roger Ailes.

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Gabriel Sherman on the Longform Podcast

Gabriel Sherman New York Sep 2016 30min Permalink

Crime

The Real-Life Superhero Who Beats the Cops to Bike Thieves

Meet Seattle’s cycling vigilante, Bike Batman.

Christopher Solomon Outside Aug 2016 20min Permalink

Crime World

The Secret Justice System That Rules the World

On ISDS, the parallel legal universe created by international treaties that allows corporations to sue countries and escape punishment.

Chris Hamby Buzzfeed Aug 2016 40min Permalink

Crime

Is Angela Corey the Cruelest Prosecutor in America?

The state attorney, who prosecuted Marissa Alexander and failed to convict George Zimmerman, has put hundreds of children behind bars.

Jessica Pishko The Nation Aug 2016 15min Permalink

Crime Food

The Disastrous $45 Million Fall of a High-End Wine Scammer

Premier Cru’s “pre-arrival” cases were deeply discounted. When too many failed to arrive, a multi-decade wine Ponzi-scheme fell apart.

Michael Steinberger Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2016 15min Permalink

Crime

It's Not Spying If They're Always Watching

Uncovering Baltimore’s secret aerial surveillance program.

Monte Reel Businessweek Aug 2016 20min Permalink

Crime

Where the Death Penalty Still Lives

Only 16 counties regularly impose death sentences, and they have three things in common: overaggressive prosecutors, defense lawyers who aren’t up to the task and cultural legacies of racial bias. Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit is among them.

Emily Bazelon New York Times Magazine Aug 2016 Permalink

Crime

The Uber Killer

On a Saturday evening in February, a 45-year-old Uber driver and father of two named Jason Dalton got into his car, left his home near Kalamazoo, Michigan, and began shooting people. But the strangest, most unfathomable thing about the night that Dalton killed and killed again is what he did in between.

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Chris Heath on the Longform Podcast.

Chris Heath GQ Aug 2016 40min Permalink

Crime

Pin Kings

How two high school wrestling teammates ended up on opposites side of the law during Miami’s cocaine wars.

Brett Forrest ESPN the Magazine Aug 2016 25min Permalink

Crime World

Chasing ISIS

The investigators tasked with finding jihadists embedded within Europe.

Mitch Prothero Buzzfeed Aug 2016 25min Permalink

Business Crime

Walmart’s Out-of-Control Crime Problem Is Driving Police Crazy

The unintended consequences of cost cutting corporate decisions on display at a Tulsa Wal-Mart Supercenter.

Shannon Pettypiece, David Voreacos Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2016 15min Permalink

Crime

The Detectives Who Never Forget a Face

On London’s new squad of “super-recognizers.”

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Patrick Radden Keefe on the Longform Podcast

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Aug 2016 30min Permalink

Crime Media

Three Years of Nights

Violence convulses the city of Chicago after dark. Reporting on it leaves its own scars.

Peter Nickeas Chicago Magazine Aug 2016 25min Permalink

Crime

Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream

On Lucille Miller, who in San Bernadino in 1964 was convicted of burning her husband to death in his Volkswagen.

Joan Didion Saturday Evening Post Apr 1966 30min Permalink

Crime

Death on the Serpent River

The mysterious deaths of two young tourists in Panama puzzled examiners but new documents may reveal their fate.

  1. How the Lost Girls of Panama Disappeared

  2. The Last Man to See the Lost Girls of Panama Alive

  3. The Camera, the Jungle, and the Bones

Jeremy Kryt Daily Beast Jul–Aug 2016 40min Permalink

Crime

Why Was Glen Race Guilty of Murder in America, but Not in Canada?

Unraveling the case of a Canadian man suffering from schizophrenia, put on trial for murder in New York, but found not criminally responsible in Nova Scotia.

Amy Dempsey The Toronto Star Aug 2016 35min Permalink

Crime

The Ballad of Rocky Rontal

Forgiveness and the lives of two young men caught in Stockton street gangs.

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Daniel Alarcón on the Longform Podcast.

Daniel Alarcón California Sunday Aug 2016 20min Permalink

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