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One day, my husband disappeared. It was only the start of a larger mystery.

One day, my husband disappeared. It was only the start of a larger mystery.

An author's day-by-day account of her husband's disappearance.

By Aspen Matis | June 8, 2020

A Conversation with a Serial Killer About the First Time He Killed a Taxi Driver

A Conversation with a Serial Killer About the First Time He Killed a Taxi Driver

"There was no special feeling of pleasure, or fear . . . nothing. I don’t remember feeling anything."

By Carlos Busqued | June 3, 2020

How a Pandemic and an Earthquake Shaped the Mafia’s Coldest Killer

How a Pandemic and an Earthquake Shaped the Mafia’s Coldest Killer

On the tumultuous youth of Umberto Anastasia, the "Lord High Executioner" of Murder, Inc.

By Frank Dimatteo and Michael Benson | June 1, 2020

About That Time Whitey Bulger

About That Time Whitey Bulger "Won" the Mass Millions Lottery

In 1991, a winning lotto ticket was sold at a South Boston Liquor Mart. The city's most notorious gangster claimed it was his.

By Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge | May 27, 2020

How the Disappearance of Etan Patz Changed the Face of New York City Forever

How the Disappearance of Etan Patz Changed the Face of New York City Forever

Stranger danger and the specter of childhood.

By Paul Renfro | May 26, 2020

Cancer, My Mystery Novel, and Me: A Survivor's Story

Cancer, My Mystery Novel, and Me: A Survivor's Story

I had always been too afraid to write a police procedural. Fighting cancer taught me not be afraid of anything.

By Rachel Howzell Hall | May 22, 2020

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Read Bong Joon Ho's Parasite as a Graphic Novel in Storyboards

By Bong Joon Ho | May 20, 2020

Hollywood’s Women in Criminal Justice: Sometimes Fact, Sometimes Fiction

By Karen Stefano | May 7, 2020

A Strange, Existentially Chilling Pilgrimage to Kurt Wallander's Hometown, Ystad

By Wendy Lesser | May 6, 2020

Why the FBI Almost Shut Down the Unabomber Investigation Before He Was Caught

Why the FBI Almost Shut Down the Unabomber Investigation Before He Was Caught

Looking back on one of the Bureau's most confounding manhunts.

By Lis Wiehl | April 28, 2020

Five True Crime Books You Should Read This Month

Five True Crime Books You Should Read This Month

Hollywood spies, assassins, and a forgotten kidnapping epidemic.

By CrimeReads | April 23, 2020

How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia

How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia

He was Mossad's master of disguises. The mission began one September afternoon in a Paris apartment.

By Stephan Talty | April 21, 2020

The Hollywood Golden Age Producer Turned Cold War Spy

The Hollywood Golden Age Producer Turned Cold War Spy

Boris Morros went to Hollywood to reinvent himself at Paramount. His Soviet handlers came along for the ride.

By Jonathan Gill | April 14, 2020

Cluster the Pieces: A Mother’s Killer, Found Through the Power of Language and Grief

Cluster the Pieces: A Mother’s Killer, Found Through the Power of Language and Grief

A daughter's grief, a forensics expert, and an unsolved murder.

By Kristine S. Ervin | April 6, 2020

The Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America

The Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America

A society under strain turned to wholesale abduction and ransom.

By David Stout | April 1, 2020

Why Robert Stone Went to Saigon—And Came Back With <em>Dog Soldiers</em>

Why Robert Stone Went to Saigon—And Came Back With Dog Soldiers

The dark journey of a classic novel of moral outrage.

By Madison Smartt Bell | March 17, 2020

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