• True Crime

    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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    April's Best Nonfiction Crime Books

    A new study of Hitchcock's films, the tragic life of an heiress, and a murder at the mission.

    April 16, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    Japan's Most Notorious Kidnapping Is Still Unsolved

    In 1984, the president of the Ezaki Glico confectionary company was kidnapped. 65 hours later, he would manage to escape. But that was only the beginning of the story...

    April 14, 2021  By Ferdison Cayetano
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    How Gilded Age Corruption Produced the Biggest, Maddest Gold Rush in History

    America was on edge, inequity was bringing about class warfare. And then there was news of gold in Alaska.

    April 14, 2021  By Brian Castner
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