First Lost, Then Murdered
The story of Melissa Barthelemy, a prostitute killed in a string of murders on Long Island in December 2010.
The story of Melissa Barthelemy, a prostitute killed in a string of murders on Long Island in December 2010.
Robert Kolker Slate Jul 2013 15min Permalink
On the militarization of America’s police forces.
Radley Balko Salon Jul 2013 Permalink
The story of the attack that killed U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, told from the persepctive of the security agents there to protect him.
Fred Burton, Samuel M. Katz Vanity Fair Aug 2013 30min Permalink
How a high-stakes poker game that started at Tobey Maguire’s house became part of a $100 million gambling and money-laundering operation orchestrated by the Russian mob.
Robert Kolker New York Jun 2013 20min Permalink
The dangerous work of harvesting your food.
Bernice Yeung, Grace Rubenstein Center for Investigative Reporting Jun 2013 25min Permalink
How a financial advisor for NHL players may have orchestrated a massive fraud.
Katie Benner Fortune Jul 2013 15min Permalink
On the grifter who made a living forging the signatures of American heroes.
John Kobler The New Yorker Feb 1956 50min Permalink
Listening to music in prison.
David Peisner Spin May 2013 10min Permalink
What good can come of tragedy.
Mark Obbie Pacific Standard Jun 2013 15min Permalink
The heroes of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Sean Flynn GQ Jun 2013 25min Permalink
She was Becky Sue Turner, then Lori Erica Ruff. Now she’s Jane Doe.
Maureen O'Hagan Seattle Times Jun 2013 15min Permalink
The story of a St. Louis handball court.
Jessica Lussenhop Riverfront Times Jun 2013 Permalink
A family turns to murder to save one of their own.
Lauren Smiley San Francisco Jul 2013 25min Permalink
On the murder of Jam Master Jay.
Frank Owen Playboy Dec 2003 Permalink
What happens when a 26-year-old Kentucky resident decides to investigate a rape case from his computer.
Adrian Chen Gawker Jun 2013 30min Permalink
How an informant helped authorities nab a notorious anti-abortion activist.
Robert Kolker New York Nov 2008 25min Permalink
The intertwined lives of an Oregon rancher and a Indiana fraudster.
Michael Rubino Indianapolis Monthly Jun 2013 30min Permalink
On “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez,who terrorized Los Angeles and San Francisco through a string of over 30 home invasion murders starting in 1984 and ending when he was recognized and apprehended by an angry mob.
Joseph Geringer Crime Library Nov 2005 45min Permalink
Montaous Walton couldn’t throw, catch or hit. But he wanted to be a ballplayer. And with the help of the internet, the media, and an ambitious young agent, that’s what he briefly became.
Brandon Sneed SB Nation Jun 2013 25min Permalink
Twenty-six years after he was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his wife, Michael Morton sees the real killer brought to justice in a Texas courthouse.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Jun 2013 25min Permalink
The Yale professor suspected of murdering his student.
James Bennet New York Times Magazine Sep 1999 20min Permalink
An Iraq War veteran assuages his PTSD with bank heists.
Scott Johnson Buzzfeed May 2013 35min Permalink
A college football coach is falsely accused of producing and possessing child pornography.
Eli Saslow ESPN May 2013 15min Permalink
“Southwark’s petty thugs must have thought all their birthdays had come at once: a well-dressed toff stumbling round their borough in no state to defend himself, and with an alcoholic street whore as his only companion.”
Reconstructing a mysterious 1892 London murder.
Paul Slade PlanetSlade Feb 2013 50min Permalink
The story of a tobacco industry whistleblower.
Marie Brenner Vanity Fair May 1996 1h15min Permalink