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Life and Death Among the Vanished in the Himalayas' Parvati Valley

Life and Death Among the Vanished in the Himalayas' Parvati Valley

Every year, people disappear in the Parvati Valley. What happens to them?

By Harley Rustad | January 11, 2022

How to Take Down An International Sex Trafficker

How to Take Down An International Sex Trafficker

Backpage.com was being used to traffic sex with minors. But prosecutor Maggy Krell had to prove it.

By Maggy Krell | January 11, 2022

The Break-In at the Bode Museum and the Case of the Gigantic Gold Coin

The Break-In at the Bode Museum and the Case of the Gigantic Gold Coin

A museum theft that was itself a work of minimalist art

By Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm | January 4, 2022

How A Senate Investigation Sparked a Midcentury Wave of Gangster Noir

How A Senate Investigation Sparked a Midcentury Wave of Gangster Noir

The Kefauver Committee, broadcast on television, sparked an insatiable appetite for crime stories in 1950s America.

By Robert Miklitsch | January 3, 2022

The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Wonders, Did He Get It Right?

The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Wonders, Did He Get It Right?

John Douglas knows from experience that the system can go awry.

By John Douglas and Mark Olshaker | December 23, 2021

How the Complex History of the Lower East Side Inspired Richard Price's <em>Lush Life</em>

How the Complex History of the Lower East Side Inspired Richard Price's Lush Life

Gentrification and uprooted communities were at the heart of this modern New York classic.

By Thomas Heise | December 21, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Salem: A Town with a Dark History of Brutality and Murder

By Edward J. Renehan Jr. | December 16, 2021

Fireworks at Graceland: How Elvis Spent His Last Christmas Before Boot Camp

By Robert K. Elder | December 15, 2021

On Dime Novels, Sensation Stories, and the First Appearance of Old Sleuth

By Henry Stewart | December 14, 2021

The Best True Crime Books of 2021

The Best True Crime Books of 2021

Celebrating books from Elon Green, Audrey Clare Farley, Samira Shackle, and more.

By CrimeReads | December 10, 2021

To Investigate Serial Killers with the FBI, First She Had to Pass the Test

To Investigate Serial Killers with the FBI, First She Had to Pass the Test

She was the woman behind the FBI's groundbreaking Behavioral Science Unit. But she was an expert, not an agent.

By Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess and Steven Matthew Constantine | December 9, 2021

Inside the FBI's Unlikely Undercover Operation Infiltrating a Radical Militia in Kansas

Inside the FBI's Unlikely Undercover Operation Infiltrating a Radical Militia in Kansas

Working with informants was never easy. In rural Kansas, there were special challenges.

By Dick Lehr | November 30, 2021

From Superstition to Science

From Superstition to Science

The Slow Birth of Modern Criminology and Forensics

By Adam Selzer | November 23, 2021

How Delaware Sold the Greatest, Most Insidious Financial Secrecy Tool the World Has Ever Known

How Delaware Sold the Greatest, Most Insidious Financial Secrecy Tool the World Has Ever Known

In the 1980s, Delaware officials went on a barnstorming tour of Asia. They were selling a new kind of secrecy.

By Casey Michel | November 23, 2021

November's Best Nonfiction Crime Books

November's Best Nonfiction Crime Books

Offshore exploits, Dostoevsky's murderer, and America's first civil war.

By CrimeReads | November 19, 2021

The Serrata del Marchante: From Spaghetti Western Set to Cowboy Theme Park

The Serrata del Marchante: From Spaghetti Western Set to Cowboy Theme Park

Sergio Leone filmed "For A Few Dollars More" in the Spanish desert, now a destination for tourists rather than filmmakers.

By Nick Hunt | November 19, 2021

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