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    Seers, Mystics and Scam Artists: Clairvoyants in 20th Century America

    Seers, Mystics and Scam Artists: Clairvoyants in 20th Century America

    A brief history of a nation that wants to believe.

    By Keith Roysdon | January 7, 2022

    The Break-In at the Bode Museum and the Case of the Gigantic Gold Coin

    The Break-In at the Bode Museum and the Case of the Gigantic Gold Coin

    A museum theft that was itself a work of minimalist art

    By Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm | January 4, 2022

    9 Spine-Tingling True Crime Relics Sold in 2021

    9 Spine-Tingling True Crime Relics Sold in 2021

    The gun that killed Billy the Kid, Charles Manson's music, Lee Harvey Oswald's marine score card, and more.

    By Rebecca Rego Barry | December 23, 2021

    The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Wonders, Did He Get It Right?

    The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Wonders, Did He Get It Right?

    John Douglas knows from experience that the system can go awry.

    By John Douglas and Mark Olshaker | December 23, 2021

    Nathaniel Hawthorne's Salem: A Town with a Dark History of Brutality and Murder

    Nathaniel Hawthorne's Salem: A Town with a Dark History of Brutality and Murder

    For Hawthorne, whose ancestors led the prosecution of Salem's witches, the community's corrupted soul was ever present.

    By Edward J. Renehan Jr. | December 16, 2021

    Fireworks at Graceland: How Elvis Spent His Last Christmas Before Boot Camp

    Fireworks at Graceland: How Elvis Spent His Last Christmas Before Boot Camp

    It was Christmas Eve and the King had been drafted. He decided to blow some stuff up.

    By Robert K. Elder | December 15, 2021

    Best Reviewed
    Books of the Week

    • Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes
    • Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David
    • I Can't Stop Thinking about Horses and Sex
    • Queen of Lombard Street
    • Paradise Burns
    • Doppelgänger
    • Hanging and Burning: A King Oliver Novel
    • Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging, and Hope
    • The Turning of Sally-Mae

    The Best True Crime Books of 2021

    By CrimeReads | December 10, 2021

    To Investigate Serial Killers with the FBI, First She Had to Pass the Test

    By Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess and Steven Matthew Constantine | December 9, 2021

    True Crime Is Changing
    (And That's A Good Thing)

    By Joseph Knox | December 8, 2021

    The Ponzi of Paris: The Greatest, Wildest Confidence Artist in French History

    The Ponzi of Paris: The Greatest, Wildest Confidence Artist in French History

    Marthe Hanau was a savvy woman at the head of a financial empire. She wasn't going to be taken down without a fight.

    By Dean Jobb | December 3, 2021

    7 True Crime Podcasts You Need to Listen to This Winter

    7 True Crime Podcasts You Need to Listen to This Winter

    Cold cases, hot investigations, and a visit to the body farm.

    By Lizzy Steiner | December 3, 2021

    How the CIA Took Over a Florida Island

    How the CIA Took Over a Florida Island

    Retired spies flocked to Sanibel Island in the 1970s. Soon they launched a newspaper and a campaign for self-determination.

    By Craig Pittman | December 1, 2021

    Faith Jones on Growing Up in a Cult, Leaving the Fold, and Reconnecting with Family

    Faith Jones on Growing Up in a Cult, Leaving the Fold, and Reconnecting with Family

    After a horrifying childhood under the control of the Children of God, Faith Jones managed to escape—and live a full life.

    By Molly Odintz | December 1, 2021

    Inside the FBI's Unlikely Undercover Operation Infiltrating a Radical Militia in Kansas

    Inside the FBI's Unlikely Undercover Operation Infiltrating a Radical Militia in Kansas

    Working with informants was never easy. In rural Kansas, there were special challenges.

    By Dick Lehr | November 30, 2021

    The Spy Who Never Was

    The Spy Who Never Was

    British Cold War-era journalist John Peet defected to East Germany, later claiming to have been a Soviet sleeper agent. But was he?

    By Jordan Todorov | November 24, 2021

    From Superstition to Science

    From Superstition to Science

    The Slow Birth of Modern Criminology and Forensics

    By Adam Selzer | November 23, 2021

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