How To Get Away With (the Perfect) Murder
Who killed four people in the French Alps?
Who killed four people in the French Alps?
Sean Flynn GQ Sep 2015 35min Permalink
Struggling with depression and thoughts of suicide, Army officer Lawrence Franks went AWOL. Five years later, he reappeared as Christopher Flaherty, a member of the French Foreign Legion who served three tours in Africa. Then he was court-martialed.
Janet Reitman Rolling Stone Sep 2015 35min Permalink
The story of a sudden death amid a high school recruiting scandal in Texas.
David Gardner Sports Illustrated Sep 2015 25min Permalink
An Alabama woman took the equivalent of one Valium during her pregnancy. A few weeks after she gave birth, she became one of more than 1,800 new and expecting mothers arrested under the state’s chemical endangerment law.
Nina Martin ProPublica Sep 2015 40min Permalink
Ken Dornstein’s older brother died when a bomb exploded on Pan Am Flight 103. For the past three decades, he’s been obsessed with identifying who’s really responsible.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Sep 2015 40min Permalink
Inside the Nairobi Westgate Mall massacre.
Tristan McConnell Foreign Policy Sep 2015 35min Permalink
Almost ten years after his kidnapping, a man writes to the people who threatened his life.
Bradford Pearson Philadelphia Magazine Sep 2015 20min Permalink
What really happened at 2475 Glendower Place.
Jeff Maysh Medium Sep 2015 20min Permalink
The family accused of funding the Pakistani Taliban.
Evan Osnos New Yorker Sep 2015 25min Permalink
A profile of jailed trader Tom Hayes, who was either behind the Libor scandal or became its fall guy.
Liam Vaughan, Gavin Finch Bloomberg Businessweek Sep 2015 35min Permalink
A trailer and the people who lived with Dylann Roof in it before he killed nine people in a Charleston church.
Stephanie McCrummen Washington Post Sep 2015 Permalink
No one knew how Suzanne Jovin ended up in a wealthy neighborhood away from Yale’s campus in New Haven, or why she was brutally stabbed on the sidewalk, apparently by someone she knew. The only suspect that police named was her thesis advisor.
Suzanna Andrews Vanity Fair Aug 1999 35min Permalink
Meet Britain’s “Batman of obscenity.”
Edward Docx The Guardian Sep 2015 30min Permalink
Activist investor Bill Ackman set out to destroy the multilevel marketing company. But did he wind up helping it succeed instead?
Roger Parloff Fortune Sep 2015 45min Permalink
Creating a new, clean police force in the Ukraine.
Masha Gessen Foreign Policy Sep 2015 25min Permalink
On America, Christianity, and “ignorance, intolerance, and belligerent nationalism.”
Marilynne Robinson New York Review of Books Sep 2015 15min Permalink
Thirty-three years ago, a Chicago man was sentenced to death for murder. In 1999, another man confessed to the crime. Today, they are both free.
Matthew Shaer The Atavist Magazine Sep 2015 1h Permalink
A profile of Judy Clarke, who takes on the most heinous, notorious defendants in America, trying to save them from the death penalty. Until Dzokhar Tsarnaev, she usually succeeded.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Sep 2015 45min Permalink
A treasure hunter found the world’s richest shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod. Or at least that’s what he told his investors.
Erick Trickey Boston Magazine Sep 2015 25min Permalink
A high school student disappears, only to turn up more than 10 years later – posing as a high school student.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Mar 2002 40min Permalink
A tale of British gangsters who were determined to be famous.
Duncan Campbell The Guardian Sep 2015 25min Permalink
On a local talk show, Ted Bundy’s mother speaks to the family of one of his victims.
Dana Middleton Silberstein The Morning News Sep 2015 20min Permalink
Twenty-five years later, the deaths of a couple on the Trail remain shocking – and mostly unexplained.
Earl Swift Outside Sep 2015 30min Permalink
The men who say they’ll try to save the once-bustling gambling resort town.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Aug 2015 40min Permalink
How a former member of Jesus People USA exposed its history of sexual abuse.
Jesse Hyde Buzzfeed Aug 2015 30min Permalink