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True Crime
How Do Cold Case Investigators Identify A Body When DNA Testing Is Not Possible?
On naming the nameless when many identity markers have faded.
By
Laurah Norton
| October 18, 2023
On the Perils of Adult Guardianship, An Industry Rampant with Fraud and Abuse
Court-appointed guardians have few qualifications, little oversight, and enormous potential for exploitation.
By
Diane Dimond
| October 13, 2023
A Murder Mystery in the Sunshine State
How a dispute between Florida neighbors and a copy of Agatha Christie's 'The Pale Horse' landed a chemist on Death Row.
By
Jana Monroe
| October 11, 2023
Sarah Weinman on Helen Garner and the Ongoing Conversations of True Crime
In
This House of Grief
Garner "takes the act of bearing witness to new levels."
By
Sarah Weinman
| October 10, 2023
“A Matter of Opinion”: Three Crimes and the Myths Surrounding Them
"Each of these crimes has generated decades’ worth of mythology, some of it so far from the truth that the actual story isn’t recognizable in its own mythos."
By
Sam Rebelein
| October 10, 2023
When a Dispute Over the Pronunciation of ‘Newfoundland’ Turned Deadly
How Do You Say Murder?
By
Dean Jobb
| October 2, 2023
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Sean Howe on
High Times
Magazine and Its Enigmatic, Larger-than-Life Editor
By
Gregory Daurer
| September 29, 2023
On Crime and Its Discontents
By
Ben Okri
| September 12, 2023
When True Crime Meets Police Brutality
By
Justine Barron
| September 12, 2023
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 notorious murder in Fall River played out for transfixed audiences in New York night after night.
By
Bruce Dorsey
| September 1, 2023
Texas: Home to Bizarre True Crimes (And So Many Serial Killers)
A brief survey of some of the Lone Star State's strangest cases.
By
Stephen G. Michaud
| August 31, 2023
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
Eight Unforgettable Books About Missing Persons
Una Mannion on the literature of the vanished
By
Una Mannion
| August 16, 2023
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
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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