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The Cowboy as Detective: Finding Charlie Siringo’s West

The Cowboy as Detective: Finding Charlie Siringo’s West

Charlie Siringo’s frontier life filled five autobiographies. His book about his two decades “playing outlaw” as a Pinkerton operative provoked the agency’s long campaign to silence him, and inspired American crime writers such as Dashiell Hammett. “When the final call comes,” Siringo judged toward the end, “I shall have to take my medicine, with Satan holding the spoon.”

By Nathan Ward | September 5, 2023

The New York City Theater Where True Crime Was All the Rage...in the Early 19th Century

The New York City Theater Where True Crime Was All the Rage...in the Early 19th Century

The notorious murder in Fall River played out for transfixed audiences in New York night after night.

By Bruce Dorsey | September 1, 2023

The Strange, Surreal, Visionary Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s

The Strange, Surreal, Visionary Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s

Michael Gonzales talks with Adam Rowe about his new book, Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s

By Michael Gonzales | August 29, 2023

The Search for a Vanished Hiker on the PCT

The Search for a Vanished Hiker on the PCT

A former law enforcement park ranger goes on the trail to find answers after a thru-hiker disappears.

By Andrea Lankford | August 23, 2023

Cold Cases: Grief Has No Expiration

Cold Cases: Grief Has No Expiration

Keith Roysdon on murder, Muncie, and what it means to work a cold case.

By Keith Roysdon | August 14, 2023

Yepoka Yeebo on the Ghanaian Con Man Who Swindled the World

Yepoka Yeebo on the Ghanaian Con Man Who Swindled the World

The author of Anansi's Gold first learned about the "utterly absurd" story of John Ackah Blay-Miezah from a WhatsApp message. Then she read the diplomatic cables from Shirley Temple Black.

By Kevin Canfield | August 7, 2023

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By Deborah Bonello | July 26, 2023

In Pursuit of the Lizard People, and the Dangerous Conspiracy Theories That Led to the 2020 Nashville Bombing

In Pursuit of the Lizard People, and the Dangerous Conspiracy Theories That Led to the 2020 Nashville Bombing

In 2021, Colin Dickey went to Nashville to see the garage where Anthony Quinn Warner set off his bomb. He found a web of conspiracy theories, and city still unsure what really happened.

By Colin Dickey | July 20, 2023

An Unsettling Conversation with Samuel Little, America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

An Unsettling Conversation with Samuel Little, America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

In Jillian Lauren's new book, Behold the Monster, she looks into the abyss in search of a killer's story.

By Jillian Lauren | July 18, 2023

The Birth of Salon Kitty, Wartime Berlin's Premier Brothel and Nazi Spy Trap

The Birth of Salon Kitty, Wartime Berlin's Premier Brothel and Nazi Spy Trap

How Nazi leadership took their own twisted ideas about sex and applied them to domestic espionage.

By Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner and Dr. Julia Schrammel | July 14, 2023

How Truman Capote Was Destroyed by His Own Masterpiece

How Truman Capote Was Destroyed by His Own Masterpiece

Inside a New Volume Reproducing the Original Manuscript
of In Cold Blood

By Ebs Burnough | July 10, 2023

The Bizarre Story of the 'Cowboy Mutiny'

The Bizarre Story of the 'Cowboy Mutiny'

In 1902, Captain Robert Peattie was attacked aboard the Leicester Castle by a disgruntled sailor, who then killed the ship’s 2nd mate before escaping with two others on a flimsy raft. The Captain assumed the men had soon drowned in the South Pacific until he was called to America, with four bullets still in his body, to identify a suspect living as an Arizona Sheriff.

By Nathan Ward | July 6, 2023

Sarah Weinman on James Baldwin, the Atlanta Child Murders, and the Evolution of True Crime Writing

Sarah Weinman on James Baldwin, the Atlanta Child Murders, and the Evolution of True Crime Writing

A new nonfiction anthology shows the range and depth of today's true crime writing.

By Sarah Weinman | July 5, 2023

The Metropol Hotel: A Brief History of Moscow's Legendary (and Notorious) Hotel

The Metropol Hotel: A Brief History of Moscow's Legendary (and Notorious) Hotel

It was a center for culture, commerce, dissolution, disenchantment, spies, foreigners, and revolutionaries.

By Alan Philps | July 5, 2023

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