• True Crime

    In Victorian London, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream Was a New Kind of Killer

    Jack the Ripper wasn't the only serial killer stalking the city's vulnerable. In Lambeth, there was Dr. Cream.

    July 15, 2021  By Dean Jobb
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    Berlin in 1946 Was a Cultural Battlefield Unlike Any Before

    The earliest battles of the Cold War took place in Berlin, where Soviets unleashed a complex program to win over German culture.

    July 13, 2021  By Giles Milton
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    "L’affaire Flactif": How Racist Motivations Were Overlooked in a Family Homicide

    According to the press, David Hotyat murdered an entire family out of jealousy. But his true motivations were much more sinister.

    July 7, 2021  By Samira Sedira
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    Inside the Fiction Group in a Maximum-Security Psychiatric Hospital

    "They’d talk about what ward they were on, their security level, the medication they were taking, and how long they’d been at Perkins, but I never heard a patient ask another patient about their crime."

    July 7, 2021  By Mikita Brottman
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    American Dreamers: On Frank Lucas, Jay-Z and a New York City Crime Epic

    Talking with Jay-Z about growing up in New York, the gangster dream, and finding inspiration from a bygone era.

    June 30, 2021  By Michael Gonzales
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    Five True Crime Books You Should Read This Month

    A look at the month's best new nonfiction crime.

    June 24, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    For Lack of an Ending: How the 1970 Death of a Young Iowa Woman Became a Generations-Spanning Search for Truth

    Katherine Dykstra first learned about the death of 18-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling from her mother-in-law. The case file would come to consume her, but why?

    June 23, 2021  By Katherine Dykstra
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    How the Banning of Joyce's Ulysses Led to "The Grandest Obscenity Case in the History of Law and Literature"

    Morris Ernst knew he could win the case to "liberate" Joyce's famously banned novel. So he found a publisher, took a cut of the royalties, and had a copy sent by boat to America.

    June 22, 2021  By Samantha Barbas
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    The Mississippi Farmer Who Helped Take Down the Jones County Klan

    Tom Landrum was strongly opposed to joining the KKK—that is, until an FBI agent asked him to infiltrate the organization.

    June 22, 2021  By Curtis Wilkie
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    A Murder in Tiger Bay: How Nadifa Mohamed's New Novel Revives a Decades-Old Tragedy

    In 1952, Mahmood Mattan was executed by the British government for a crime he didn't commit. Decades later, a new novel reimagines his world in the working-class docklands of Cardiff.

    June 21, 2021  By Paul French
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