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Who is ‘Tawnya Grilth’?
Dune Lawrence, Michael Riley Businessweek Feb 2013 15min Permalink
The story of Thor Holm Hansen—”Norwegian country singer, a former Outlaws motorcycle chieftain, and an ‘ambassador at large’ to a rebel Haitian government”—who claims to be back in Florida to locate his missing daughter.
Terrence McCoy New Times Broward-Palm Beach Feb 2013 20min Permalink
On the case of young Joseph Hall, who was convicted last month of murdering his dad.
Natasha Vargas-Cooper Buzzfeed Feb 2013 25min Permalink
How Singaporean mobster Tan Seet Eng, aka Dan Tan, and a global network of fixers influenced as many 680 soccer matches at the highest levels.
Brian Phillips Grantland Feb 2013 10min Permalink
An 88-year-old woman is taken from her Wisconsin farmhouse. Inside the investigation to find her.
Helen O'Neill AP Mar 2004 Permalink
Visiting a lost friend.
Amy Butcher The Rumpus Jan 2013 15min Permalink
The bodies in the chalet were found in a secret chamber, arranged radiating out from a point like spokes in a wheel. Some had suffocated, some had been shot. They all were followers of a mysterious prophet, Luc Jouret.
The early life of “the onetime Black Panther, protégé of George Jackson, and sole member of the San Quentin Six convicted of murder.”
Chip Brown Esquire Jan 1988 35min Permalink
Israel Keyes confessed to multiple murders, but committed suicide before revealing all the details.
Sharon Cohen, Rachel D'Oro AP Jan 2013 10min Permalink
How Bert Schneider, a well-heeled Hollywood producer with a coke problem and a soft spot for radical politics, smuggled Huey Newton, the leader of the Black Panthers who was awaiting trial on a murder charge, into Cuba in 1974.
Joshuah Bearman Playboy Dec 2012 30min Permalink
Almost five years ago, the author’s 13-year-old niece was murdered in her bedroom in suburban New Delhi. Since then, both of her parents have spent time in jail. Evidence, bungled by police, points to another possible killer. The trial has not yet begun.
Shree Paradkar The Toronto Star Jan 2013 25min Permalink
Why Iran punished two leading AIDS doctors.
Tina Rosenberg Prospect Sep 2012 Permalink
Calculating restitution for victims of child pornography.
Emily Bazelon New York Times Magazine Jan 2013 20min Permalink
On being stalked in the age of the Internet.
James Lasdun The Chronicle of Higher Education Jan 2013 20min Permalink
A scholarly dispute devolves into criminal impersonation.
Batya Ungar-Sargon Tablet Jan 2013 10min Permalink
When the East Coast mob showed up in L.A. in 1946, the LAPD formed a ruthess special unit to run them out of town: the Gangster Squad.
Paul Lieberman The Los Angeles Times Oct 2008 30min Permalink
In search of the perfect lie detector test.
Adam Higginbotham Wired Jan 2013 15min Permalink
How an overzealous forensic pathologist and his odontologist sidekick put innocent Mississippi residents behind bars – and let killers run free.
Radley Balko The Huffington Post Jan 2013 30min Permalink
The story was told by Sports Illustrated, CBS News, and countless others: linbeacker Manti Te’o, Heisman trophy candidate and the face of Notre Dame football, was playing brilliantly despite the tragic loss of his girlfriend to leukemia early in the season. The reporters missed one key element of Te’o’s story, however: the girl hadn’t died. She couldn’t have. She didn’t exist.
Timothy Burke, Jack Dickey Deadspin Jan 2013 15min Permalink
An inmate’s protest.
Ann Neumann Guernica Jan 2013 20min Permalink
An oral history of the University of Texas Tower massacre.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Aug 2006 40min Permalink
A bookkeeper’s $9 million swindle, her lavish second life, and the boss who didn’t notice.
Neil Swidey The Boston Globe Sep 2006 25min Permalink
A reporter who investigated Scientology tracks down the man who once ran the church’s intelligence operations – and who may hold the secret to years of harassment (and the mysterious death of a pet dog).
Joel Sappell Los Angeles Dec 2012 30min Permalink
An investigation into the death of a sacred white buffalo and the man who raised it.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Jan 2013 30min Permalink
A profile of the 23-year-old woman who was savagely raped on a private bus as it circled New Delhi.