• True Crime

    George Blake and the Prison Escape Story Hitchcock Spent The Last Decade of His Life Trying to Make

    The spy who escaped prison and captured popular imagination.

    May 11, 2021  By Simon Kuper
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    A Reading List For Understanding The Past, Present, and Future of Belfast

    Northern Irish writers are making sense of a complicated history through crime fiction. Here are some of the best novels to come out of the post-conflict era.

    May 7, 2021  By Sharon Dempsey
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    Chester Gillette, Theodore Dreiser, and the Origins of America’s Fascination with True Crime

    In 1906, Grace Brown, a factory worker in upstate New York, was killed, her supervisor was arrested for the crime, and the course of American literature was altered forever.

    May 6, 2021  By L.R. Dorn
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    The Cursed History of San Francisco's Emmanuel Baptist Church

    The church's first two pastors killed themselves—and that was before the double murder in 1895 that sealed the building's reputation as haunted.

    May 5, 2021  By Bob Calhoun
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    The State of the Crime Novel in 2021: A Roundtable With the Edgar Awards Nominees

    As the Mystery Writers of America prepare to hand out the year's top honors, nominees discuss the crime fiction world.

    April 28, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    Towards A New Understanding of Psychosis and Violence

    We live in a world that conditions us to fear mental illness instead of to treat it. The consequences of this approach are deadly.

    April 28, 2021  By Vince Granata
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    On the Dognapping Gangs that Terrorized Victorian London, and the Poet who Fought Back

    The tale of the most dramatic dognappinng of the 19th century, which sealed a romance and changed literary history.

    April 27, 2021  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    How Anti-Catholic Propaganda, Racism, and One Man's Paranoid Obsessions Helped Form Oregon's Founding Myths

    Henry Spalding was a sometimes missionary regarded by many as a lunatic. His lies about a frontier killing helped shape a new state.

    April 27, 2021  By Blaine Harden
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    How One Woman's Forced Sterilization Led to a Mayhem Charge and Exposed a Secret World of Medical Atrocities

    In early 20th century California, forced sterilizations were an unnervingly widespread, if mostly secret, practice.

    April 20, 2021  By Audrey Clare Farley
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    Fraud and Spiritualism Between the Wars: A Study of Two Hoaxes

    In the 1930s, famed spiritual investigator and ghost hunter Nandor Fodor found himself disappointed by several hoaxes.

    April 20, 2021  By Kate Summerscale
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