Surviving Westgate
An inside account of the Nairobi mall attack.
An inside account of the Nairobi mall attack.
James Verini New Yorker Sep 2013 10min Permalink
How the author, following up on a rumor, helped reignite the dormant investigation into the murder of Martha Moxley, a teenager who had been murdered nearly 25 years before in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Dominick Dunne Vanity Fair Oct 2000 35min Permalink
On the biggest food fraud in U.S. history.
Charlie Rowan was a small-time cage fighter who couldn’t catch a break. He owed money to impatient people and needed to start over. Late one night, he came up with a plan.
Mary Pilon New York Times Sep 2013 20min Permalink
What a secret audio tape revealed about the murder of mycologist and magic mushroom pioneer Steven Pollock.
Hamilton Morris Harper's Jul 2013 50min Permalink
Trying to prevent the next tragedy.
Josh Sanburn Time Sep 2013 35min Permalink
One year later, a dispatch from Steubenville.
Katie J.M. Baker Jezebel Sep 2013 15min Permalink
How a series of lies and an incompetent lawyer led to a Florida woman’s wrongful conviction.
Terrence McCoy New Times Broward-Palm Beach Sep 2013 20min Permalink
The prevalence of online threats against women and why the people who make them go unpunished.
Greg Sandoval The Verge Sep 2013 15min Permalink
“They cruise the city in chauffeured cars, blasting rap, selling pot to classmates. How some of New York’s richest kids joined forces with some of its poorest.”
Nancy Jo Sales New York Dec 1996 20min Permalink
A five-part investigation into “private re-homing,” in which adoptive parents give their problem children away with the help of internet message boards.
Megan Twohey Reuters Sep 2013 1h Permalink
The quiet life of Brigette Höss, 80, whose father ran Auschwitz.
Thomas Harding Washington Post Sep 2013 10min Permalink
A profile of the NFL quarterback gone bust.
John Cagney Nash Playboy Sep 2013 20min Permalink
Why a former Anonymous spokesperson was arrested for, among other things, copying and pasting a link.
Alexander Zaitchik Rolling Stone Sep 2013 25min Permalink
In January, the body of a 17-year-old athlete was found in his high school’s gym. The authorities ruled it an accident. His friends and family aren’t convinced.
Jordan Conn Grantland Sep 2013 30min Permalink
A 55-year-old cold case ends with a conviction. But was justice really served?
Playing outside after dinner, best friends Kathy and Maria meet a man calling himself “Johnny.” Kathy runs home to grab mittens; upon her return, her 7-year-old friend and the stranger are nowhere to be found.
The story of Jack McCullough, once known as John Tessier, a man who once lived near Kathy and Maria and has a troubling history of abusing women.
Police zero in on McCullough after a deathbed confession.
Half a century after her friend was abducted, Kathy identifies the man who took Maria.
Jack McCullough is convicted of Maria’s kidnapping and murder, but questions are raised about the evidence (or lack thereof) presented at trial.
Ann O'Neill CNN Aug 2013 20min Permalink
On the hanging of James Murphy, murderer.
Lafcadio Hearn The Cincinnati Commercial Aug 1876 20min Permalink
How New York City built its own CIA.
Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman New York Aug 2013 20min Permalink
A case of mistaken identity and the incarceration of an innocent man.
Benjamin Weiser New York Times Magazine Aug 2000 30min Permalink
Roy Petersen was blind in one eye, had two replaced hips, and was twice divorced. His job was to solve a gold mine robbery case in the Peruvian Andes. He would need some help.
Joshua Davis Epic Aug 2013 Permalink
The house at 114 Lake Avenue in Bristol, CT that kept calling Aaron Hernandez, a NFL star by 20, back to “a volatile underworld of guns, drugs, and violence.”
Bob Hohler Boston Globe Aug 2013 10min Permalink
Two white security contractors set off into the remote interior. Within a week, a seemingly innocent man who crossed their path lay dead on the side of the road. The manhunt began.
James Bamford GQ Nov 2012 35min Permalink
How a serial killer and his teenage accomplice used listings for “the job of a lifetime” to lure their victims, all down-and-out single men, to the backwoods of Ohio.
Hanna Rosin The Atlantic Aug 2013 40min Permalink
How a struggling comedian became a pimp who eventually started sending teenage hookers on bank robbery missions that earned them notoriety as the “Starlet Bandits.”
Gene Maddaus LA Weekly Jul 2013 20min Permalink
How the heir to a horse racing empire became an informant on the Zetas cartel as they pushed their money laundering operations into the lucrative quarter horse trade.
Melissa Del Bosque, Jazmine Ulloa Texas Observer Aug 2013 20min Permalink