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Crime

Crime

The Secrets of White Collar Prisons

Bernie Kerik and Jack Abramoff on “Club Fed.”

Lisa DePaulo Dujour Jan 2014 Permalink

Arts Crime Movies & TV

Drugs, Diamonds, International Intrigue — You Won't Believe Two Hollywood Producers' Crazy Backstory

Did Remington Chase and Stefan Martirosian “orchestrate” a contract killing in Moscow?

Gene Maddaus LA Weekly Jan 2014 20min Permalink

Crime

“"Did Your Father Touch You?”"

In 1997, 8-year-old Chaneya Kelly reported that she had been raped by her father, Daryl Kelly, sending him to prison for up to 40 years. Since then, she’s wanted more than anything to take it back.

Jennifer Gonnerman New York Dec 2013 20min Permalink

Arts Crime History World Movies & TV

The Defense of a Jewish Collaborator

On Benjamin Murmelstein, the head of the council of elders at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Mark Lilla New York Review of Books Dec 2013 20min Permalink

Crime Politics

A Mission Gone Wrong

A bungled operation in Honduras and the enduring ineffectiveness of America’s war on drugs.

Mattathias Schwartz New Yorker Jan 2014 35min Permalink

Crime Tech

How Britain Exported Next-Generation Surveillance

The rise of automatic number plate recognition and its real-world consequences.

James Bridle Matter Dec 2013 Permalink

Crime Sports

The Heartbreak Boys of Coogee Beach

Eleven members of an Australian rugby club traveled to Bali. After a bomb went off at a nightclub, only five of them made it home.

Michael Paterniti GQ Oct 2004 35min Permalink

Business Crime Tech

Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet

How a 20-something made millions as an e-commerce hustler.

Taylor Clark The Atlantic Jan 2014 35min Permalink

Crime Politics

Concealed Carry: How Utah Became America's Gun Permit Mill

A journey through America’s convoluted gun laws.

Alan Berlow Politico Magazine Dec 2013 15min Permalink

Crime

Tyler Hadley's Killer Party

He murdered his parents. Then he threw a party.

Nathaniel Rich Rolling Stone Dec 2013 30min Permalink

Crime

Searching For Mecca

Investigating the unsolved murder of Malcolm X’s grandson.

John L. Mitchell, Jack Chang Vice Dec 2013 20min Permalink

Crime

What Kind of Monster Wants to Shoot Up His School?

The case of a teenager who didn’t kill his classmates—but talked about it.

Camille Dodero Gawker Dec 2013 45min Permalink

Crime

The Fall of the House of Tsarnaev

An investigation into the family of the accused Boston Marathon bombers.

Sally Jacobs, David Filipov, Patricia Wen The Boston Globe Dec 2013 1h5min Permalink

Crime Politics

Murtha and the FBI: The Director's Cut

In 1980 a convicted con-man named Melvin Weinberg was sent by the FBI to offers bribes to U.S. Congressmen on behalf of a phony Arab sheik. The Abscam, short for ‘Abdul Scam’, sting brought down for several representatives, but longtime politician John Murtha narrowly avoided offering a bribe on camera.

David Holman The American Spectator Sep 2006 15min Permalink

Crime

The Manhunt for Christopher Dorner

The search for a disgraced ex-LAPD officer bent on killing his former colleagues and their families.

Christopher Goffard, Joel Rubin, Kurt Streeter The Los Angeles Times Dec 2013 25min Permalink

Crime Politics

Apocalypse, New Jersey

A dispatch from Camden, “America’s most desperate town.”

Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Dec 2013 25min Permalink

Crime

The Other Side of the Story

“When I was fourteen, I had a relationship with my eighth grade history teacher. People called me a victim. They called him a villain. But it’s more complicated than that.”

Jenny Kutner Texas Monthly Dec 2013 30min Permalink

Crime

The Vigilante of Clallam County

Why one man made it his mission to kill 60 known sex offenders.

Lexi Pandell The Atlantic Dec 2013 25min Permalink

Crime Science

Sex, Lies and HIV

On the criminalization of nondisclosure.

Sergio Hernandez ProPublica Dec 2013 30min Permalink

Crime History World

Hitler's Doomed Angel

The conspiracy theories surrounding the 1931 death of Hitler’s niece and object of affection.

Ron Rosenbaum Vanity Fair Apr 1992 55min Permalink

Crime World

Bad Blood

The death of a Russian dissident and how radioactive poison became a tool of assassins.

Will Storr Matter Nov 2013 35min Permalink

Crime World

Interview with US Defense Attorney Turned Tijuana Narcojunior

An interview with a Mexican-born American attorney who defended and eventually smuggled for the cartels in the ’90s.

Anonymous Borderland Beat Nov 2013 30min Permalink

Crime Science

A Mysterious Death at the South Pole

Investigating an astrophysicist’s sudden death at an isolated resesarch base in Antarctica.

William Cockrell Men's Journal Dec 2009 Permalink

Crime

Charles Manson Today

Manson at 79: in poor health and walking with a cane, obsessed with Vincent Bugliosi, willing to talk at length with a reporter for the first time in years, and visited every weekend by a 25-year-old woman he calls Star.

Erik Hedegaard Rolling Stone Nov 2013 40min Permalink

Crime

Murder, Love & Redemption

In 1985, a lost 22-year-old wrote a letter to a Manson girl-turned-model prisoner, asking for advice on conquering his demons. Then they fell in love.

Shawn Hubler Orange Coast Feb 2010 15min Permalink

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