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The Very Brief Heyday of Crime Beat Magazine

The Very Brief Heyday of Crime Beat Magazine

Crime Beat ahead of its time or a sign of divisions to come?">For two years in the 1990s, horror writer T.E.D. Klein edited the "newsmagazine of crime." Was Crime Beat ahead of its time or a sign of divisions to come?

By Tobias Carroll | September 9, 2020

MS-13: How Neo-Colonial Violence and Exploitation Gave Birth to America's Most Notorious Gang

MS-13: How Neo-Colonial Violence and Exploitation Gave Birth to America's Most Notorious Gang

"The gang is the bastard child that no one wants to acknowledge from an affair that most choose to ignore."

By Steven Dudley | September 8, 2020

Confessions of a <br>True Crime Addict

Confessions of a
True Crime Addict

Our appetite for crime shows, and their loosely fictionalized cousins, only continues to grow...

By Matthew Farrell | September 4, 2020

The CIA's Dark History of Employing Former Nazis in Postwar Europe

The CIA's Dark History of Employing Former Nazis in Postwar Europe

The young agency looked for German expertise in battling communism. In one Prussian aristocrat, it found the rotten core of Nazi extremism—and put him to work for the US.

By Scott Anderson | September 3, 2020

The Sad, Surprisingly Relatable Story Behind the

The Sad, Surprisingly Relatable Story Behind the "Astronaut Love Triangle" Scandal

In 2007, astronaut Lisa Nowak made a careful list and drove from Florida to Texas with a pistol, a knife, pepper spray, and diapers.

By Kimberly C. Moore | September 3, 2020

When a White Man Breaks the Law

When a White Man Breaks the Law

He was growing weed as a white man in Appalachia. His casual outlaw existence was a form of privilege in a grossly inequitable system.

By Alison Stine | September 2, 2020

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Six True Crime Books You Should Read This Month

By CrimeReads | August 28, 2020

Forensics on Trial: America’s First Blood Test Expert

By Brandy Schillace | August 28, 2020

My Top Five Female Detectives, Real and Imagined

By Bella Ellis | August 28, 2020

Surveillance Cameras Are Everywhere. And They're Only Going to Get More Ubiquitous.

Surveillance Cameras Are Everywhere. And They're Only Going to Get More Ubiquitous.

A crime writer's thoughts on our increasingly watched world.

By Laura Griffin | August 26, 2020

What the Mythology of El Chapo Guzmán Tells Us About the Reality of Drug Trafficking in the Americas

What the Mythology of El Chapo Guzmán Tells Us About the Reality of Drug Trafficking in the Americas

Was he a bandit, a ruthless killer, or a sacrificial lamb set up by other leaders? Answers are elusive, and that's the point.

By Alan Feuer | August 25, 2020

How an Indiana Preacher's Son Transformed into a Western Lawman—and a Killer

How an Indiana Preacher's Son Transformed into a Western Lawman—and a Killer

Ed Cantrell went to Wyoming and cast himself in the mould of Western gunslinging icons. Then, he was charged with murder.

By Rone Tempest | August 14, 2020

Faces on the Milk Cartons: The Lost Boys of Des Moines

Faces on the Milk Cartons: The Lost Boys of Des Moines

In the 1980s, three Iowa boys went missing. Their disappearances loomed large in my childhood, and have haunted me ever since.

By Kali White | August 13, 2020

Fraud of the Century: The Ponzi Scheme, 100 Years Later

Fraud of the Century: The Ponzi Scheme, 100 Years Later

In 1920, Boston’s Charles Ponzi gave a classic confidence trick its name. Why are investors still falling for such a notorious swindle?

By Dean Jobb | August 11, 2020

My Life in True Crime

My Life in True Crime

Kim Powers' life has been spent writing about crime. But the suspicions about his own mother's death were kept secret.

By Kim Powers | August 6, 2020

A Faked Obituary and the Search for a Missing Sister

A Faked Obituary and the Search for a Missing Sister

If my sister was dead, then why did her email have an account of her death written up before it happened?

By Betsy Bonner | August 5, 2020

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