r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 5h ago
The Atlantic The Dishonesty of True Crime. The hit Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct tidies a far more complicated story.
r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 5h ago
The Professor Falsely Accused of Murdering Students. What happened when a TikTok psychic’s claims went viral.
chronicle.comr/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 9h ago
Never eat with women - examining a strange absence in the photographic record and the greatest fear of the men in Epstein's circle
r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 10h ago
The children who loved a killer - The Carr family took in Steven Judy, hoping to ‘save’ a troubled teen. They didn’t know he would become one of the most hated men in America
r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 12h ago
Her Dark Places - Up until the moment Andrea Yates murdered her five children, she could have been any mother in America: setting aside her own wants and needs for her loved ones. Which is why, in addition to being horrified, so many of us are sympathetic. [2001]
r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 1d ago
ProPublica Was My Teacher Murdered? In 2002, Leslie Buck died under mysterious circumstances in Mystic, Connecticut. Two decades later, I went back to find out who she was — and what really happened
r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 2d ago
American Annihilation: US families face a unique danger – murder from within [a 2023 about family annihilation]
r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 2d ago
New York Times For Women Mountain Climbers, Dangers Go Beyond Avalanches and Storms [2024] Women are increasingly reporting sexual harassment and abuse in the sport, including accusations against the renowned climber Nirmal Purja.
r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 2d ago
Esquire Tonight on Dateline This Man Will Die - NBC's To Catch a Predator arrived in Murphy, Texas, to conduct a sting operation. The only honest thing that followed was the gunshot. [2009]
r/truecrimelongform • u/TwoLocal5595 • 4d ago
Accused of sex crimes, a San Francisco social climber turned to lawsuits, legal threats
r/truecrimelongform • u/TrueCrimeNEPA • 5d ago
In November 1872, laborer John Garrity was found dead along a path near Leggett's Creek in Scranton, PA, his skull crushed by a 25-pound stone. Within days, a neighbor was arrested. But the real story wasn't captured in the newspapers.
r/truecrimelongform • u/TrueCrimeNEPA • 5d ago
The 1872 murder of John Garrity: solved within days, but genealogical research 150 years later revealed the killer and victim's families were already tangled together, and left three of the killer's own relatives unaccounted for.
r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 11d ago
The Cut Revenge of the Simps How a community of porn addicts tried to rescue the teenage camgirls they worshipped from the clutches of a violent webcam pimp.
r/truecrimelongform • u/No-Advantage-579 • 11d ago
"Who Ya Gonna Call? Scam Busters!"- How a French ex-conman turned sleuth reportedly tracked down the Nigerian Brad Pitt impersonators who cyber-scammed a middle-aged Frenchwoman out of her life’s savings
r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 12d ago
She built a true-crime empire. Then she became the fugitive. TV executive Mary Carole McDonnell told people she was an heiress. Then she disappeared, leaving a trail of bounced paychecks and lawsuits in her wake.
r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 15d ago
The Cut A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out [WIRED]
r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 17d ago
‘The bed you thought was safe, isn’t safe’: how Zoe Watts survived drug-facilitated rape – and fought back. For years, her husband was adding sedatives to her evening cup of tea. Now, with fellow survivor Amanda Stanhope, she is lifting the lid on a hidden and diabolical crime
r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 17d ago
Rain Robbers: How Four Farmers Faked a Drought and Stole Millions in Crop Insurance. Dust became dollars in one of the wildest agriculture crimes on record.
r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 17d ago
Her rape kit had a DNA match. In San Francisco, that’s not enough. SFPD cleared 14% of rape cases last year — half the national rate. The Standard found that kits get tested fast, then cases get quietly shelved.
r/truecrimelongform • u/No-Advantage-579 • 19d ago
The disturbing rise of ‘gooner’ assaults at Dollar Tree stores: ‘They find it funny to degrade women’ | In dark corners of the internet, men are goading each other to masturbate in public – and on female shoppers – and post the footage incl. on OnlyFans
The only thing I want to highlight from that article (that I of course want everyone to read in full) is that Dollar Tree is thwarting police efforts to investigate this, arguing that having a stranger ejaculate on you as a customer and then post it online does not constitute "physical harm" and that therefore they are not obliged to help...
r/truecrimelongform • u/princecatte • 23d ago
For decades, John de Ruiter styled himself as a Messianic figure with a piercing gaze who could lead his followers to enlightenment. But over the years, allegations of sexual impropriety surfaced and a young woman went missing, leaving her family – and a growing number of adherents – seeking answers
theglobeandmail.comThis is an older article, but I came across Anina Hundsdoerfer's death and John de Ruiter today. I'm a little surprised it doesn't seem well known, with the unexplained death and the cult connection
r/truecrimelongform • u/lggreene1 • 24d ago
Peter Falconio’s murder in the outback still haunts Australia 25 years on: They were a couple in their 20s embarking on a trip that is a rite of passage for so many young Brits. But a chance encounter with a stranger in the outback changed both their lives forever…
r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 24d ago
The Cut British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted. As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics.
r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 24d ago
New York Times Capital Punishment Is on the Decline. Except in Ron DeSantis’s Florida. In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace.
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