• True Crime

    Why the Nazis Launched a Bizarre, Racist War on Modern Art

    As the National Socialist party rose to power in Weimar Germany, they took aim at the country's "degenerate" artists.

    August 13, 2021  By Charlie English
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    A Brief History of the CIA's Efforts to Infiltrate Africa by Funding an Elaborate Network of Nonprofit Goodwill Organizations

    In the early days of the Cold War, the CIA launched journals, concerts, and co-opted high-profile African-American NGOs.

    August 13, 2021  By Dr. Susan Williams
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    An Original Graphic Novel about Ed Gein, The Serial Killer Who Haunted America and Inspired Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs

    A startling new look at a real-life American bogeyman.

    August 13, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    The "Facebook Murder" That Shattered the Chinese Dutch Community

    It started with a dispute between friends on social media. It soon turned into a terrifying murder-for-hire plot.

    August 12, 2021  By Mitzi Szereto
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    A History of Serial Killers Who Went Quiet Before Being Caught

    Dormant for years (or even decades), these infamous criminals were undone by new technology, old passions, or giant egos.

    August 11, 2021  By Joanna Schaffhausen
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    Florence Rush and the Providence White Slavers

    The profitable panic that inspired both journalists and crime writers to focus on the (extremely exaggerated) crisis of "white slavery"

    August 10, 2021  By Curtis Evans
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    The Strange Story of Mexico's First Narco, the Drug Panic He Helped Incite, and the Revolution to Come

    In 1908, José del Moral and his stash of marijuana cigarettes were public enemy number one, and it all had to do with the classes who were smoking the herb.

    August 10, 2021  By Benjamin T. Smith
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    Perfume Thieves and the History of Temptation

    On the scent of some of history's most refined criminals.

    August 5, 2021  By Timothy Schaffert
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    Suicide, Despair, Lunacy, and Hysteria (and Surprisingly Little Murder) Among WASPS

    New England elites were, by the end of the 19th century, feeling supplanted, useless, and wracked by melancholy.

    August 5, 2021  By Michael Knox Beran
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    Life Inside West Virginia's "Quiet Zone"—Where Cell Phones and WiFi Are Banned and Electrosensitive Pilgrims Commune with Silence

    If you think the town sounds like Twin Peaks, you're not the only one.

    August 4, 2021  By Stephen Kurczy
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