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Rich Cohen on the Murder of Jennifer Dulos and His New Book, 'Murder in the Dollhouse'

Rich Cohen on the Murder of Jennifer Dulos and His New Book, 'Murder in the Dollhouse'

"[S]he misunderstood something about America, which is that the idyll isn't real. It's a kind of advertising."

By Kevin Canfield | May 29, 2025

1984: Enter the Crack Era

1984: Enter the Crack Era

Michael Gonzales on Harlem before and after crack.

By Michael Gonzales | May 16, 2025

20 Years After, A Semblance <br>of Truth and Reconciliation. <br>Who Was It For?

20 Years After, A Semblance
of Truth and Reconciliation.
Who Was It For?

Abby Reyes on the long wait for justice after her partner was killed fighting for Indigenous rights against all-powerful oil companies

By Abby Reyes | May 9, 2025

Everything You Thought <br>You Knew About Lethal <br>Injection Is Wrong

Everything You Thought
You Knew About Lethal
Injection Is Wrong

"Lethal injection not working well is how lethal injection works."

By Corinna Barrett Lain | April 22, 2025

A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for the Lost Boys of Houston

A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for the Lost Boys of Houston

How a prison meeting with Wayne Henley, the teenage accomplice in the Candy Man murders, deepened the mystery Sharon Derrick set out to solve.

By Lise Olsen | April 2, 2025

Ashley Winstead On True Crime Obsession, Amateur Sleuths, and the Weight of Grieving

Ashley Winstead On True Crime Obsession, Amateur Sleuths, and the Weight of Grieving

"I wanted to make an argument in this book about why more and more people are drawn to true crime."

By Jenny Bartoy | March 27, 2025

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James Whitfield Thomson on His Decades-Long Search for Answers to His Sister's Death

By James Whitfield Thomson | March 25, 2025

Elon Green on the 1980s Police Brutality Case That Brought New York's Art Scene Together In Protest

By James Polchin | March 19, 2025

Jacqueline Faber: Rewriting Kitty Genovese on the 61st Anniversary of Her Murder

By Jacqueline Faber | March 13, 2025

The Last Days of Michael Stewart, a Young Black Artist of the East Village in the 1980s

The Last Days of Michael Stewart, a Young Black Artist of the East Village in the 1980s

Read a passage from Elon Green's new book, 'The Man Nobody Killed'

By Elon Green | March 11, 2025

The Murder Trial that Shook Gilded Age San Francisco

The Murder Trial that Shook Gilded Age San Francisco

Laura D. Fair was the talk of the booming city.

By Gary Krist | March 11, 2025

Escaping Slenderman’s Shadow: The Release of Morgan Geyser

Escaping Slenderman’s Shadow: The Release of Morgan Geyser

Kathleen Hale considers the lasting implications of a shocking trial

By Kathleen Hale | February 28, 2025

What Happens When There's a Crime in Antarctica?

What Happens When There's a Crime in Antarctica?

R.S. Burnett on life and death in the polar extreme.

By R.S. Burnett | February 19, 2025

Luigi Mangione, George Metesky, and a Tradition of Anti-Corporate Violence

Luigi Mangione, George Metesky, and a Tradition of Anti-Corporate Violence

Decades before Mangione, there was Metesky, the "Mad Bomber."

By Michael Cannell | February 14, 2025

Alias Curley: A Con Man’s Story of The Little Bighorn

Alias Curley: A Con Man’s Story of The Little Bighorn

The Crow scout called Curley famously escaped dying with Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Others created accounts of Curley’s survival, one was an impersonator who fleeced the West.

By Nathan Ward | February 11, 2025

How an Interview with a Killer Pushed One Journalist Toward Fiction

How an Interview with a Killer Pushed One Journalist Toward Fiction

Steve Wick was a prize-winning reporter and nonfiction author. And he was searching for a new story to tell.

By Steve Wick | February 4, 2025

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