• True Crime

    A Brief History of
    After-Hours Clubs

    How new music, new drugs, and new communities sprang up in the legal gray zone known as the 'after-hours club.'

    February 26, 2020  By Terry Williams
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    The Femme Fatale: A Brief History of Beauty as a Surprisingly Effective Legal Defense

    History teaches us there are five rules to getting away with murder.

    February 25, 2020  By Laura James
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    People v. Gillette: How an Obscure Execution in the Finger Lakes Inspired Generations of Storytellers

    The Long Cultural Afterlife of a Horrifying Crime

    February 24, 2020  By S.L. McInnis
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    Turns Out, Elizabethan Playwright and Poet Laureate Ben Jonson was a Murderer

    But he found a clever way to avoid punishment.

    February 21, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Money Ain’t a Thang: 'Paid in Full' and the Culture That Rose out of New York's Crack Era

    In the 1980s, the city was ravaged by a new drug. But a new culture, born of the same streets, was on the rise, too.

    February 20, 2020  By Michael Gonzales
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    A Modern-Day Explorer, a Costa Rican Jungle, and the Search for a Lost Son

    Roman Dial's son hiked into the jungle and never returned. Dial launched an incredible years-long search for answers.

    February 19, 2020  By Roman Dial
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    On Cults, and the
    Weight of Family

    Leaving a cult is hard. It's even harder when the cult is your family.

    February 19, 2020  By Nile Cappello
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    Six Nonfiction Books You Should Read This February

    Colonial Murders, Iconic Outlaws, Brilliant Criminalists, Driven Filmmakers, and Never-Solved Crimes

    February 13, 2020  By CrimeReads 
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    Cold Cases of History: The Murder of Juan Borgia

    500 years ago, a scion of the infamous Borgias was murdered. Plenty had reason to murder him, but the exact culprit has never been discovered.

    February 13, 2020  By Alyssa Palombo
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    The Unsettling Literature of Missing Persons

    Stories of waiting, of hoping, and of half-lives.

    February 13, 2020  By Kathleen Donohoe
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