• True Crime

    Sean Howe on High Times Magazine and Its Enigmatic, Larger-than-Life Editor

    Thomas King Forçade: counterculture hero, or CIA plant? Onetime High Times Contributor Gregory Daurer interviews author Sean Howe about the peculiar founder of an iconic publication.

    September 29, 2023  By Gregory Daurer
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    On Crime and Its Discontents

    "Every crime is a breach and a break and a sundering. It splits time. It shatters the ethical axis. But it reveals hidden things in a culture, or a nation."

    September 12, 2023  By Ben Okri
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    When True Crime Meets Police Brutality

    True-crime accounts of someone killed by police shouldn’t be any different from other murder investigations, but they are.

    September 12, 2023  By Justine Barron
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    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.” 

    September 5, 2023  By Nathan Ward
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    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.

    September 1, 2023  By Bruce Dorsey
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    Texas: Home to Bizarre True Crimes (And So Many Serial Killers)

    A brief survey of some of the Lone Star State's strangest cases.

    August 31, 2023  By Stephen G. Michaud
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    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.

    August 23, 2023  By Andrea Lankford
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    Eight Unforgettable Books About Missing Persons

    Una Mannion on the literature of the vanished

    August 16, 2023  By Una Mannion
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    Cold Cases: Grief Has No Expiration

    Keith Roysdon on murder, Muncie, and what it means to work a cold case.

    August 14, 2023  By Keith Roysdon
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    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.

    August 7, 2023  By Kevin Canfield
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