• True Crime

    The Great Diamond Hoax: “A Deliberate and Oddly Planned Masterpiece of Roguery”

    In 1870 San Francisco, two cousins walked into a mine broker's office and kicked off one of the most bizarre and lucrative swindles in American history.

    December 15, 2022  By J. Kingston Pierce
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    8 True Crime Podcasts You Need to Listen to this Winter

    Tales from the 90s softcore scene, the underground environmental movement, and Miami.

    December 15, 2022  By Lizzy Steiner
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    How Hollywood Made J. Edgar Hoover and the F.B.I. Into the Mythical "G-Men"

    Just like movie studios, the Bureau was starting a new era—and it was time for a public relations campaign.

    December 7, 2022  By Beverly Gage
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    Into the Combat Zone: Boston's Most Notorious Neighborhood

    The Zone was Boston's Times Square, a magnet for the city's most desperate and depraved.

    November 29, 2022  By Don Stradley
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    Surrounded by Beauty – Can an Object Ask you to Commit a Crime?

    Usually criminologists study the criminal, but many of today’s scholars recommend an object-centric approach for understanding art crime. Cordy Abbott looks at a new model for why your antagonist committed art, antiquities or antiques theft.

    November 28, 2022  By Cordy Abbott
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    How the Nation of Islam Sent Shockwaves Across 1950s America – And Won the Support of Nasser's Egypt

    In 1958, the Nation of Islam was a powerful organization, on the rise. Soon, the American media, and the world, would take notice.

    November 23, 2022  By Shahan Mufti
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    How a Forgery of a Forgery Began a Career in the Artistic Underworld

    On the Early Days of Tony Tetro's Life as an Art Forger

    November 22, 2022  By Tony Tetro and Giampiero Ambrosi
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    The Allure of the Arsenic Squad: Why I Write about 19th Century Women Serial Killers

    "[W]omen serial killers of this era call to me just because of their double transgression: that against the victim, and that against the contemporary ideals."

    November 22, 2022  By Camilla Bruce
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    A Cold Case in Florida

    The Mysterious Murder of a Troubled Teen

    November 15, 2022  By Jeff Patterson
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    The Truth About Snitching

    Our legal system is intensely reliant on informants and the unregulated, mostly unknown deals that guide them into an ever-more dangerous life.

    November 15, 2022  By Alexandra Natapoff
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