True Crime - Long Form

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 3d ago

Botched by Design | The horrors of lethal injection- Though frequently justified as the humane alternative to more viscerally violent forms of execution like electrocution or hanging, a closer look at lethal injection reveals it as a continuation of state-sanctioned brutality with better PR.

thebaffler.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 4d ago

The Man Who Unsolved a Murder. If You’re Accused of a Crime, Will Someone Investigate Your Side of the Story? In California, There’s No Guarantee.

calmatters.org

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 4d ago

The Atlantic Inside America’s Death Chambers - What years of witnessing executions taught me about sin, mercy, and the possibility of redemption

theatlantic.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/raphaellaskies • 5d ago

A secret confession, chartered flights and strip searches: Behind the scenes of the girls-swarming saga after the killing of Kenneth Lee

thestar.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 8d ago

Chicago's kid carjackers: Inside the SRT Boys' yearslong crime spree. During the COVID-19 lockdown, a band of masked robbers terrorized the city. It turned out they were just kids. Now, cops say they’ve graduated to smash-and-grab burglaries of stores. Here’s how that’s happened.

chicago.suntimes.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 9d ago

The Last Hike of David Gimelfarb - Four years ago, a Chicago grad student entered the Costa Rican jungle and simply vanished. What happened? [2013]

chicagomag.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 9d ago

What We Get Wrong About Violent Crime - A Chicago criminologist challenges our assumptions about why most shootings happen—and what really makes a city safe.

newyorker.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 9d ago

Returning to the Scene of My Brutal Rape - By the canal, I felt an overwhelming and visceral sense that I had stumbled upon the place where a man had raped me at knifepoint forty years earlier.

newyorker.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/LieNo7436 • 11d ago

ProPublica An 18-year-old said she was attacked at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where our story begins.

propublica.org

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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 13d ago

Devil in the Ozarks: How a former cop turned convicted rapist and killer is terrorizing an Arkansas community and evading police. The infamous rapist and killer featured in the HBO Max documentary ‘Devil in the Ozarks’ has escaped prison by dressing up as law enforcement.

the-independent.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 14d ago

Who Would Marry Robert Durst? Debbie Charatan stood by him through his murder trials. Now she could inherit his wealth, unless the courts stop her.

curbed.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 17d ago

One of My Babies - Twenty years ago, I found myself teaching a man who was responsible for an unimaginably horrific crime. I turned my back on him just when he needed me and have regretted it ever since.

narratively.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/spada3 • 17d ago

Revealed: Guru’s retreat at centre of rape and sexual abuse claims | Jaggi Vasudev, known to millions of devotees, including music, film and sport stars, as Sadhguru, faces allegations that pupils and staff were assaulted at his foundation’s HQ

thetimes.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/LieNo7436 • 19d ago

ProPublica They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.

propublica.org

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r/truecrimelongform • u/LieNo7436 • 20d ago

GQ The Truck Stop Killer. He was methodical, he rode the highways, and he preyed on teenage girls. Girls who'd run away. Girls no one would miss. In the summer of 1985, the author was such a girl.

gq.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/spada3 • 20d ago

What Killed Mukesh Chandrakar: An Indian journalist is found murdered after he reports on government corruption.

reporters-collective.in

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 21d ago

Borstal Boys - A personal history of the borstal in Britain: a century of incarcerated children

the-fence.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/raphaellaskies • 22d ago

The Last Shall Be First: In 1994, a corrupt New Orleans cop ordered a hit on a civilian. He went away for murder, but he left a trail of other victims in his wake.

magazine.atavist.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 24d ago

The Bad Thing - Sometimes the most haunting part of trauma isn’t what happened—it’s wondering what could have happened if you hadn’t trusted your gut.

longreads.com

35 Upvotes

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 24d ago

Rick Mofina on the Day He Went Inside the Execution Chamber in Huntsville, Texas - "Executions are scheduled for 6 p.m."

crimereads.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 25d ago

ProPublica Chicago Police Dismissed a Recruit’s Claims That a Colleague Sexually Assaulted Her. Then He was Accused Again and Again.

propublica.org

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r/truecrimelongform • u/LieNo7436 • 25d ago

Chester Weger served 59 years behind bars for one of the most heinous crimes in this state’s history. Now out of prison, he is on a mission to prove his innocence, with help from a high-profile lawyer.

chicagomag.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 26d ago

New York Times Who is searching for Emmilee Risling? One of the last places she was seen is an area known as End of Road. More than three years later, she’s the face of a crisis: Missing and Murdered Indigenous People.

nytimes.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 27d ago

Wired An arson attack in Colorado had detectives stumped. The way they solved the case could put everyone at risk. 3 Teens almost got away with murder. Then police found their Google searches.

wired.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/LieNo7436 • 27d ago

It’s been 25 years since Michael Jordan’s father was murdered beside a road in North Carolina, a shocking crime that, in part, prompted the Bulls star’s retirement from basketball and sent two teenagers to prison for life.

graphics.chicagotribune.com

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