• True Crime

    Whatever Happened to Elise De Viane? On The Mystery Woman in Dashiell Hammett’s 1931 Sexual Assault Case

    90 years later, few know the story of Hammett's friend-turned-victim, who won a substantial settlement against the author after a violent sexual assault.

    June 3, 2021  By Curtis Evans
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    Jack Ruby Is the Key to the Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theories. So Why Have We Forgotten About His Trial?

    Conspiracy theories focus on Ruby and the supposed cover-up. But his Texas trial has mostly been lost to history.

    June 2, 2021  By Dan Abrams and David Fisher
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    How Forensic Anthropologists Read the Skeletons of the Dead For Clues

    "Never trust the pathologist on a TV show who says that the skeleton has been in the ground for eleven years. Utter twaddle."

    June 2, 2021  By Sue Black
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    The Silent Woman

    From musician to muse to wife to sex doll—the savage remaking of Alma Mahler

    June 1, 2021  By Maria Hummel
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    How Frigid Conditions and a Failed Execution in 17th Century England Pointed the Way To a Scientific Breakthrough

    In 1650, Anne Greene was publicly hanged and ruled dead. She was an early marvel of "suspended animation."

    June 1, 2021  By Philip Jaekl
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    An Inside Look at One Woman's Life in the FBI Academy

    Gerbil tubes, sweaty pantyhose, and a 200-pound Navy SEAL draped across your back.

    June 1, 2021  By Kathy Stearman
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    How McCarthyism, the Rise of Tabloids, and J. Edgar Hoover's Quest to Prove Himself "Manly" Led to a Surveillance State

    There were always rumors about Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn's sexuality. At one legendary hearing, the innuendo came into focus.

    May 28, 2021  By Christopher M. Elias
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    On Sensationalism, Mormon Fiction, and The Murderous Mormons of Popular Culture

    In mainstream culture, depictions of Mormon villains abound. In fiction written by and for other Mormons, the Mormons are never the bad guys. Mette Ivie Harrison searches for the in-between.

    May 27, 2021  By Mette Ivie Harrison
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    Five Nonfiction Books You Should Read This Month

    Spies in exile, treasure hunts, and the search for a missing person.

    May 27, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    The Real Story of All Those Crazy Recording Devices Nixon Insisted on Installing in the White House

    Other Presidents had tape recorders. Nixon had a secretive network of hidden, voice-triggered bugs all over the White House.

    May 26, 2021  By Michael Dobbs
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