A Serial Killer in Common
Five prostitutes disappear. Bodies turn up on a Long Island beach. On the women lost, and the families left behind.
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Five prostitutes disappear. Bodies turn up on a Long Island beach. On the women lost, and the families left behind.
Robert Kolker New York May 2011 25min Permalink
American demand for drugs gave birth to the cartel war that is paralyzing Mexico, but American guns purchased legally across the Southwest and smuggled over the border have made it staggeringly lethal.
James Verini Portfolio Jun 2008 Permalink
An investigation of the American sex trafficking industry.
Amy Fine Collins Vanity Fair May 2011 45min Permalink
A glimpse into the overcrowded California State Prison, Los Angeles County.
Joe Domanick Los Angeles Sep 2009 20min Permalink
In the 1970s, Kelbessa Negewo was a midlevel administrator in Ethiopia’s brutal Red Terror regime. In the 1990s, he was a bellhop in an Atlanta hotel. Then someone he had tortured back home recognized him.
Andrew Rice New York Times Magazine Jun 2006 30min Permalink
A woman is killed. Her husband is accused. A famous/infamous medical examiner investigates.
What’s going on here isn’t just science. It’s something deeper, something stranger, something at the same time both terrifying and fascinating.
Dan P. Lee Philadelphia Magazine Oct 2006 25min Permalink
An annotated transcript:
MR. SEALE: [The marshals are carrying him through the door to the lockup.] I still want an immediate trial. You can’t call it a mistrial. I’m put in jail for four years for nothing? I want my coat.
Jason Epstein New York Review of Books Dec 1969 1h5min Permalink
Joyce Hatto, unknown to even the most ardent classical music collectors until late in her life, released a string of incredible performances of great works, distributed by her husband’s mail-order CD business. But how was it possible for her to record difficult works at such a dizzying rate? And if wasn’t her playing, who was it?
Mark Singer New Yorker Sep 2007 45min Permalink
Inside Florence, Colorado’s ADX prison, possibly one of the most isolated places on Earth, where Tommy Silverstein has spent the last 27 years without human contact.
James Ridgeway, Jean Casella Solitary Watch Feb 2011 30min Permalink
On the ground in Nigeria with the nation’s notorious scam artists, who share a remarkable number of qualities with America’s top entrepreneurs.
Sarah Lacy TechCrunch May 2011 10min Permalink
John Demjanjuk has had a huge year. Twenty years after being sentenced to die, he finally climbed to the pinnacle of the Wiesenthal Center's list of Nazi war criminals this April, shortly after the Germans filed the arrest warrant that allowed the OSI to put him on the jet to Munich.
Scott Raab Esquire Nov 2009 35min Permalink
The story of a high school quarterback’s descent into madness, and its tragic end.
Elizabeth Dwoskin Village Voice May 2011 20min Permalink
Doc moves quickly. He takes off his windbreaker, tosses his leather bag on the counter and unzips it. He pulls out a slate-blue polyester vest, V-necked, with six buttons. He raises his arms and jumps into it and then says, with an air of deep satisfaction, "Aah." Doc is proud of his bulletproof vest.
The questionable close relationship between a mobster/informant and an F.B.I. agent during a bloody Colombo crime family battle.
Fredric Dannen New Yorker Dec 1996 40min Permalink
When he was 16, Mark Clements talked his way into four life sentences. Twenty-eight years later, he talked his way out.
Steve Bogira Chicago Reader May 2011 30min Permalink
The anatomy of a bungled, massively expensive undercover sting conducted by the Seattle Police Department.
Brendan Kiley The Stranger May 2011 35min Permalink
A bank robber tells the story of a successful heist.
Dane Batty Crime Magazine May 2011 Permalink
In June, 1942, a German submarine dropped four young Nazi agents off on a Florida beach. Their mission was to blow up bridges, factories, and Jewish-owned department stores. Among them was Herbert Haupt, the 22-year-old son of a German-American family in Chicago.
Richard Cahan Chicago Magazine Feb 2002 Permalink
The story of the 1969 murder spree by Charles Manson and “Family” as told by those close to the case.
Steve Oney Los Angeles Jul 2009 Permalink
Chris Heath, Jane Mayer, John Miller, Lawrence Wright, Peter Bergen, Tom Junod Sep 2002
Sep 2002 Permalink
Bernard Peters and his son, Scott, robbed and shot a Salvation Army worker in 1996. Since then, they’ve been sharing a cell at Elmira Correctional Facility.
Manny Fernandez New York Times May 2011 Permalink
All told, the military acknowledged this summer, 14 soldiers from the base have been charged or convicted in at least 11 slayings since 2005 — the largest killing spree involving soldiers at a single U.S. military installation in modern history.
L. Smith Rolling Stone Nov 2009 30min Permalink
How slot machines snuck into the mall, along with money laundering, bribery, shootouts, and billions in profits.
Felix Gillette Businessweek Apr 2011 Permalink
Inside Obama’s most glaring reversal.
Anne E. Kornblut, Peter Finn Washington Post Apr 2011 15min Permalink
For 18 months, Coatesville, Penn., was besieged with an improbable number of arsons. But who started the fires – and why?
Matthew Teague Philadelphia Magazine Jan 2010 20min Permalink