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.
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
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
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
With prices spiralling, poachers are digging for ginseng in the North Carolina hills.
Suzy Khimm Foreign Policy Sep 2016 20min Permalink
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
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
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
She was the Southern Californian PTA mom everyone knew. Who would want to harm her?
Christopher Goffard Los Angeles Times Aug 2016 1h15min Permalink
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How women at Fox News ended the career of Roger Ailes.
Gabriel Sherman New York Sep 2016 30min Permalink
Meet Seattle’s cycling vigilante, Bike Batman.
Christopher Solomon Outside Aug 2016 20min Permalink
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
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
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
Uncovering Baltimore’s secret aerial surveillance program.
Monte Reel Businessweek Aug 2016 20min Permalink
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.
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.
Chris Heath GQ Aug 2016 40min Permalink
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
The investigators tasked with finding jihadists embedded within Europe.
Mitch Prothero Buzzfeed Aug 2016 25min Permalink
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
On London’s new squad of “super-recognizers.”
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Aug 2016 30min Permalink
Violence convulses the city of Chicago after dark. Reporting on it leaves its own scars.
Peter Nickeas Chicago Magazine Aug 2016 25min Permalink
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
The mysterious deaths of two young tourists in Panama puzzled examiners but new documents may reveal their fate.
Jeremy Kryt Daily Beast Jul–Aug 2016 40min Permalink
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
Forgiveness and the lives of two young men caught in Stockton street gangs.
Daniel Alarcón California Sunday Aug 2016 20min Permalink