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    An Interview with the Hangman's Wife

    An Interview with the Hangman's Wife

    Nancy Dougherty on the uncanny experience of traveling to the Baltic Sea to interview the wife of Reinhard Heydrich.

    By Nancy Dougherty | May 24, 2022

    A New True Crime Book Investigates a Sister's Murder and Official Indifference

    A New True Crime Book Investigates a Sister's Murder and Official Indifference

    In 1978, Therese Allore vanished. Six months later, her body was discovered. Her brother is still looking for answers.

    By Peter Handel | May 20, 2022

    "Criminal profiling has been fooling us all."

    Eric Barker on the pseudoscience of profiling.

    By Eric Barker | May 19, 2022

    On the Trail of the Shenandoah Murders at the American Investigative Society of Cold Cases

    On the Trail of the Shenandoah Murders at the American Investigative Society of Cold Cases

    Why do so many cold cases go unsolved?

    By Kathryn Miles | May 12, 2022

    Dead in the Water: How a Flailing Supertanker Illustrates The Story of Modern Shipping

    Dead in the Water: How a Flailing Supertanker Illustrates The Story of Modern Shipping

    When a supertanker starts sinking, whose job is it to save it?

    By Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel | May 9, 2022

    The Long Island Cops Who Schemed To Take Over the District Attorney's Office

    The Long Island Cops Who Schemed To Take Over the District Attorney's Office

    Gus Garcia-Roberts on corruption, electioneering, and how Jimmy Burke started his rise in Suffolk County.

    By Gus Garcia-Roberts | May 4, 2022

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    The Incredible, True Story of How the Government Turned Sammy Gravano, Gambino Family Underboss, Into a Cooperating Witness

    By John Gleeson | May 3, 2022

    How Dorothy B. Hughes' In a Lonely Place Brought a New, Disturbing Kind of Noir to the Postwar American Experience

    By Elizabeth D. Samet | April 27, 2022

    How a "Collective Madness" in 18th Century France Led to Financial Ruin and a Scheme to Lock Up Women and Ship Them Into Exile

    By Joan DeJean | April 19, 2022

    Poison, Adultery, Scandal, and Murder: The Wild Lives of Journalists in 1890's San Francisco

    Poison, Adultery, Scandal, and Murder: The Wild Lives of Journalists in 1890's San Francisco

    Mark Arsenault on the scandals that would eventually unite two journalists in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.

    By Mark Arsenault | April 12, 2022

    Investigating the Cold Case That Inspired <em>Twin Peaks</em>

    Investigating the Cold Case That Inspired Twin Peaks

    A trip to upstate New York, where Mark Frost once heard stories of an unsolved murder from the early 1900s.

    By Mark T. Givens and David Bushman | April 6, 2022

    Forget <em>Frankenstein</em>. It's Time To Read <em>The Mummy!</em>

    Forget Frankenstein. It's Time To Read The Mummy!

    Lisa Tuttle on The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, arguably the first novel to use now-common scifi tropes.

    By Lisa Tuttle | April 5, 2022

    The Fugitive Who Conned His Way Into the Footsteps of Alexander the Great – and the Quest for His Lost Cities

    The Fugitive Who Conned His Way Into the Footsteps of Alexander the Great – and the Quest for His Lost Cities

    Alexander's great city had vanished. One British East India Company deserter was determined to find it.

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    The Best New Crime Nonfiction Books: February and March 2022

    The Best New Crime Nonfiction Books: February and March 2022

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    The Conversation: Coppola's Paranoid Classic and the "Era of the Listening Device"

    Brian Hochman on the 1974 wiretap thriller that captured the rise of a surveillance society.

    By Brian Hochman | March 22, 2022

    The Bizarre, Self-Incriminating Confession of Pam Hupp

    The Bizarre, Self-Incriminating Confession of Pam Hupp

    On a strange incident in the true story that forms the basis for the show The Thing About Pam.

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