True Lies
A beloved girls’ basketball coach is accused of sexually molesting several of his players.
A beloved girls’ basketball coach is accused of sexually molesting several of his players.
Eric Adelson ESPN Jan 2005 20min Permalink
A profile of legendary L.A. crack dealer Freeway Rick Ross, now out of jail and trying to sell everything from weaves to his own biopic, written by a journalist who has known him for decades.
Jesse Katz Los Angeles May 2013 30min Permalink
The battle over stop-and-frisk within the NYPD’s ranks.
Jennifer Gonnerman New York Jun 2013 25min Permalink
The trade in fake olive oil.
Tom Mueller New Yorker Aug 2007 20min Permalink
In North Georgia, two men feud over a quarter-mile property line.
Tony Rehagen Atlanta Magazine Nov 2012 25min Permalink
How the former CEO of McKinsey, who was indicted in the largest insider trading case in United States history, got played.
Anita Raghavan New York Times Magazine May 2013 20min Permalink
How the case of a poisoned college student in China, cold for 18 years, has suddenly turned into “what may be the largest amateur online manhunt in history.”
Kevin Morris The Daily Dot May 2013 15min Permalink
An investigation into widespread criminal fraud at a generic drug company.
Katherine Eban Fortune May 2013 40min Permalink
The con man who cost Google $500 million.
Jake Pearson Wired May 2013 20min Permalink
Inside the Oscar Pistorius murder case.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair May 2013 30min Permalink
During New York’s ’80s and ’90s crack epedemic, a flashy detective who “imagined himself a crusader who created his own rules” and his star witness, a crack addicted prostitute who seemed to constantly be at the scene of homicides, sent dozens of men to prison for life. Now, they are under investigation.
Frances Robles, N.R. Kleinfield New York Times May 2013 10min Permalink
The story behind the spectacle.
Jessica Testa Buzzfeed May 2013 20min Permalink
An investigation into shootings by U.S. Border Agents that have killed six Mexicans on Mexican soil over the past five years.
John Carlos Frey Washington Monthly May 2013 25min Permalink
He was a hedge-funder with a coke problem. She liked to drink and was thrice-divorced before they got married. When the police arrived, she was clutching his dead body in the shallow end of their pool. She would soon be accused of murder—not by the cops, but her Internet psychic.
Stephen Rodrick New York Feb 2008 30min Permalink
Two sisters help detectives solve a decades-old cold case by identifying their father as their mother’s killer.
Michael E. Miller The Miami New Times May 2013 20min Permalink
An endangered-species murder mystery in Hawaii.
Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine May 2013 20min Permalink
On a cruise with Syvlia Browne, the controversial psychic famous for telling distraught parents where their missing children are.
Jon Ronson The Guardian Oct 2007 20min Permalink
The filmmaker on his relationship with former Manson Family member, currently serving a life sentence for murder. An excerpt from Role Models.
John Waters Huffington Post Aug 2009 1h Permalink
A financier and his wife build a mansion in the jungles of Costa Rica, set up a wildlife preserve, and appear to slowly, steadily lose their minds. A spiral of handguns, angry locals, armed guards, uncut diamonds, abduction plots, and a bedroom blazing with 550 Tiffany lamps ends with a body and a mystery: Did John Felix Bender die by his own hand? Or did Ann Bender kill him to escape their crumbling dream?
Meet Krystal Ryan. She left her abusive husband.
Natasha Gardner 5280 May 2013 25min Permalink
How OxyContin permeated one small town.
Ann Silversides Maisonneuve Apr 2013 30min Permalink
A legal battle over stolen computer monitors ends one man’s career and the lives of three others.
Brantley Hargrove Dallas Observer May 2013 20min Permalink
On Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh, “the world’s most wanted terrorist not named Osama bin Laden,” whose death five years ago remains a mystery.
Mark Perry Foreign Policy Apr 2013 15min Permalink
A captured bank robber makes a remarkable claim.
Tom Schoenberg Businessweek Apr 2013 10min Permalink
Kosovo’s leaders have been accused of grotesque war crimes. But can anyone prove it?
Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker May 2013 35min Permalink