When Drug Addicts Work in Hospitals, No One Is Safe
How a traveling medical technician managed to steal narcotics from hospitals, infecting at least 45 people with hepatitis C in the process.
How a traveling medical technician managed to steal narcotics from hospitals, infecting at least 45 people with hepatitis C in the process.
Kurt Eichenwald Newsweek Jun 2015 Permalink
The work of California Task Force Two, the “Seal Team Six of disaster aid.”
Vince Beiser California Sunday Jul 2015 Permalink
Two bodies wash up in Northern Europe, wearing identical wetsuits. The search for their identities leads authorities to a camp in Calais.
Anders Fjellberg, Tomm W. Christiansen Dagbladet Jun 2015 40min Permalink
On the penalties imposed – or not – on prison guards who have sex with inmates.
Alysia Santo The Marshall Project Jun 2015 10min Permalink
A profile of Moktar Belmoktar, Al-Qaida’s “most difficult employee,” who was responsible for a major attack on an Algerian BP plant and, according to U.S. and Libyan forces, was killed in an air strike on Sunday.
Rukmini Callimachi AP May 2013 10min Permalink
Tracing Europe’s migrant crisis to organized crime.
Alex Perry, Connie Agius Newsweek Europe Jun 2015 25min Permalink
An excerpt from the best-selling true crime book of all time.
Vincent Bugliosi Helter Skelter Jan 1974 40min Permalink
The last trip of a dedicated wanderer.
Jason McGahan Playboy Jun 2015 25min Permalink
Madeleine Fullard is on a mission to locate the remains of apartheid’s murdered activists. She needs the help of Eugene de Kock, a former police squad leader known as “Prime Evil,” to do so.
Justine van der Leun The Guardian Jun 2015 30min Permalink
In 1948, a man was found on a beach in South Australia. The circumstances of his death and his identity were rich with mystery. When an amateur sleuth became obsessed, he could not imagine where the clues would lead him.
Graeme Wood California Sunday Jun 2015 Permalink
The life and death of an Elvis obsessive.
Brandon Harris n+1 Jun 2015 25min Permalink
“If you’re a glass is half-full kind of person, you’d say they’re repurposing the abandoned coal mine” and using it to create jobs, says Wright. “And if you're a glass is half-empty kind of person, you'd say it's pretty unconscionable that you’re putting people in cages at gunpoint and putting them in toxic waste sites.”
Eric Markowitz International Business Times May 2015 15min Permalink
Investigating the death of Rikers Island women’s jail inmate Jackie Caquias, and other abuses of women prisoners’ access to medical care.
Erika Eichelberger The Intercept May 2015 15min Permalink
A West Hollywood aesthetician made headlines after allegedly trying to have a business rival killed. But the real story, involving ongoing harassment and a member of the so-called Bling Ring, may be more complicated.
Greg Nichols Los Angeles May 2015 20min Permalink
If you’re in a gang, the law can impose harsh penalties. But even though the police think they’ve got all the signs of gang membership down pat, it turns out that you can’t really tell just by looking.
Daniel Alarcón New York Times Magazine May 2015 25min
The life of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, shot dead by the police in Washington state.
Brooke Jarvis Seattle Met May 2015 20min Permalink
The detective work that led to the recovery of a trove of stolen Nazi art.
Konstantin von Hammerstein Der Spiegel May 2015 20min Permalink
The failures of the “broken windows” approach to policing.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone May 2015 25min Permalink
The Cleveland police are still adamant that they did nothing wrong in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.
Connie Schultz Politico Magazine Mar 2015 15min Permalink
On the trail of a group of thieves stealing the fanciest wine out of San Francisco’s fanciest restaurants.
Claire Suddath Bloomberg Business May 2015 15min Permalink
After years of sexual abuse by a neighbor, a teenager takes matters into his own hands.
Maria Cramer Boston Globe May 2015 20min Permalink
On the psychology of mass killer Anders Behring Breivik.
Karl Ove Knaussgard New Yorker May 2015 15min Permalink
The case of the disappearing Pappy Van Winkle bourbon.
Thomas Lake Washington Post May 2015 Permalink
Decades after a young nun was murdered, a group of former Catholic high school students begin to suspect that an abusive priest may have been the culprit.
Laura Bassett Huffington Post May 2015 30min Permalink
Revisiting the 6200 block of Osage Avenue.
Gene Demby NPR May 2015 15min Permalink