• True Crime

    James Whitfield Thomson on His Decades-Long Search for Answers to His Sister's Death

    The chronicle of a brother's investigation.

    March 25, 2025  By James Whitfield Thomson
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    Elon Green on the 1980s Police Brutality Case That Brought New York's Art Scene Together In Protest

    In 1983, 25-year-old graffiti artist Michael Stewart died after a brutal police beating. Artists, musicians, and East Village denizens soon united in outrage.

    March 19, 2025  By James Polchin
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    Jacqueline Faber: Rewriting Kitty Genovese on the 61st Anniversary of Her Murder

    Kitty Genovese's death was framed as the cost of urban callousness. But the true story is far more complicated—and contains far more humanity.

    March 13, 2025  By Jacqueline Faber
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    The Last Days of Michael Stewart, a Young Black Artist of the East Village in the 1980s

    Read a passage from Elon Green's new book, 'The Man Nobody Killed'

    March 11, 2025  By Elon Green
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    The Murder Trial that Shook Gilded Age San Francisco

    Laura D. Fair was the talk of the booming city.

    March 11, 2025  By Gary Krist
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    Escaping Slenderman’s Shadow: The Release of Morgan Geyser

    Kathleen Hale considers the lasting implications of a shocking trial

    February 28, 2025  By Kathleen Hale
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    What Happens When There's a Crime in Antarctica?

    R.S. Burnett on life and death in the polar extreme.

    February 19, 2025  By R.S. Burnett
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    Luigi Mangione, George Metesky, and a Tradition of Anti-Corporate Violence

    Decades before Mangione, there was Metesky, the "Mad Bomber."

    February 14, 2025  By Michael Cannell
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    Alias Curley: A Con Man’s Story of The Little Bighorn

    The Crow scout called Curley famously escaped dying with Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Others created accounts of Curley’s survival, one was an impersonator who fleeced the West.

    February 11, 2025  By Nathan Ward
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    How an Interview with a Killer Pushed One Journalist Toward Fiction

    Steve Wick was a prize-winning reporter and nonfiction author. And he was searching for a new story to tell.

    February 4, 2025  By Steve Wick
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