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How a Team of Ambitious Crooks in 1960s Montreal Planned the Biggest Bank Heist Anyone Had Ever Seen
In 1961, Montreal was the bank robbery capital of North America. A team of criminals wanted to plan the perfect caper.
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Andrew Amelinckx
| March 22, 2023
The Mysterious Death of a D.C. Power Broker
During the Harding Administration, Jess Smith had the ear of every politician in town, especially the crooked ones.
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Nathan Masters
| March 21, 2023
Uncovering the Grave Sins of a Catholic Orphanage in Vermont
A journalist and survivors reckon with a brutal reality.
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Christine Kenneally
| March 21, 2023
Portrait of a 1920's Midwife, Who Was Also the Leader of a Murder Ring
In a rural farming region in what is now Hungary, a group of women banded together in a strange enterprise.
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Patti McCracken
| March 20, 2023
The First Victim of Black Bart, the Old West’s Greatest Stage Robber
A look inside the first foray of the Old West's gentleman bandit.
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John Boessenecker
| March 14, 2023
The Invention of the Polygraph, and Law Enforcement's Long Search for a 'Lie Detector'
In the basement offices of the Berkeley police, the experiments began...
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| March 8, 2023
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Why Does the Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe's Death Still Haunt Us?
Few American writers have been read so widely for so long. And for many, Poe's death is inextricable from his fiction.
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| February 14, 2023
The Life and Legacy of James Ellroy
Steven Powell's new work on Ellroy is an ambitious biography and a fascinating glimpse into the mind of "the Demon Dog."
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Andrew Nette
| February 10, 2023
The Year Ian Fleming Finally Started Writing His Novel
Was he mostly just eager to avoid the looming responsibilities of real life?
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John Higgs
| February 8, 2023
On the 1968 Film Which Introduced the Trope of the "Black Guy Dies First"
Spider Baby helped introduce the modern horror concept of the Black character existing solely to die"">"
Spider Baby
helped introduce the modern horror concept of the Black character existing solely to die"
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Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris
| February 7, 2023
The Launch of a 19th Century Sex-Cult in Upstate New York
John Humphrey Noyes was a reserved, shy young man – until he found religion and his own utopian, free-love, open marriage cult.
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Susan Wels
| February 7, 2023
The Best Critical Nonfiction / Biography Books of 2022
John le Carré's letters, a reckoning with junk science, a nation of wiretappers, and more.
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CrimeReads
| December 13, 2022
DNA Is the Best Tool Courts Have. That Doesn't Mean They Always Use it Accurately.
Flaws with State Postconviction DNA-Testing Laws
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Daniel S. Medwed
| December 9, 2022
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