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    How McDonald's Found Out Its Wildly Popular Monopoly Game Was a Fraud

    How McDonald's Found Out Its Wildly Popular Monopoly Game Was a Fraud

    America's favorite marketing game was about to come crashing down.

    By James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte | August 12, 2024

    Dirty Diamonds: How Post-Soviet Kleptocrats Looted Russia's Deep Diamond Deposits

    Dirty Diamonds: How Post-Soviet Kleptocrats Looted Russia's Deep Diamond Deposits

    For decades, diamond conglomerates paid the USSR to keep diamonds in the ground. Then, the Cold War ended.

    By David Junk | August 9, 2024

    LGBTQIA+ Crime Fiction Late Summer Reads

    LGBTQIA+ Crime Fiction Late Summer Reads

    It's still pool weather! Time to read some queer mysteries and thrillers...

    By Queer Crime Writers | August 7, 2024

    A Murder in Laredo

    A Murder in Laredo

    How an investigation into a woman's murder in the Texas borderlands became a search for a serial killer.

    By Rick Jervis | August 6, 2024

    The Assassinations That Targeted India's Journalists

    The Assassinations That Targeted India's Journalists

    In a new book, Rollo Romig discusses the killing of Gauri Lankesh and other reporters in India.

    By Kevin Canfield | August 6, 2024

    March 31, 1985: The Day That Tore San Diego Apart

    March 31, 1985: The Day That Tore San Diego Apart

    "Two white San Diego Police officers followed a pickup truck with seven young Black men up a long dirt driveway in the Southeast neighborhood of Encanto. Minutes later, something terrible happened."

    By Peter Houlahan | July 26, 2024

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    Peter Houlahan on Sagon Penn, Policing in California, and the Trial That Changed San Diego

    By Kevin Canfield | July 25, 2024

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    How the Underworld Exploited Jewish Women in Turn of the Century New York

    How the Underworld Exploited Jewish Women in Turn of the Century New York

    On the East Side, women from the garment industry were targets in an evolving system of crime and exploitation.

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    Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Woman Who Organized 19th Century New York's Criminal Underworld

    Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Woman Who Organized 19th Century New York's Criminal Underworld

    Margalit Fox's new book puts a spotlight on a forgotten trailblazer of crime.

    By Margalit Fox | July 11, 2024

    Margalit Fox on the Woman Who Organized Theft in 19th Century New York

    Margalit Fox on the Woman Who Organized Theft in 19th Century New York

    The woman at the center of Fox's new book, Fredericka Mandelbaum, built her own "crooked ladder."

    By Kevin Canfield | July 8, 2024

    A Window Into the World of Those Who Search for the Missing

    A Window Into the World of Those Who Search for the Missing

    On the quiet heroism of forensic scientists working to identify long-dead remains in former Yugoslavia

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    Dean Jobb on the Gentleman Thief Who Charmed Jazz Age New York

    Dean Jobb on the Gentleman Thief Who Charmed Jazz Age New York

    Arthur Barry cut a dashing figure around the city and referred to the people he robbed as "clients."

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    Candy for the People: The Miami Murder Mystery That Transfixed America

    Candy for the People: The Miami Murder Mystery That Transfixed America

    Sixty years ago, a high-profile murder gave America its first taste of true crime in the modern media age.

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    The Con Artists Who Preyed on Gay Men In the Early 1900s

    The Con Artists Who Preyed on Gay Men In the Early 1900s

    James Polchin on the "real-life conmen...whose cons often profited from the prohibition and criminalization of homosexuals."

    By James Polchin | June 27, 2024

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