A warning before this article. The Whitechapel murders involved sustained physical mutilation of the dead, and any honest account of them must say so. This piece does not dwell on graphic detail beyond what the case requires, but the killings…
A warning before this article. The Yorkshire Ripper case involves sustained physical violence against women, including women who survived attacks that left them with lifelong injuries. The investigation itself was, by the eventual official assessment, profoundly compromised by attitudes that…
A serious warning before this article. The Moors Murders involved the abduction, sexual abuse, and killing of children. The youngest victim was ten years old. The trial included the playing in open court of an audio tape recording of one…
Lizzie Borden took an axe / And gave her mother forty whacks. / When she saw what she had done / She gave her father forty-one. The schoolyard rhyme is wrong on almost every count. Abby Borden was not Lizzie’s…
A warning before this article. The Manson Family murders involved sustained physical violence and the killing of a pregnant woman near term. This piece does not dwell on graphic detail beyond what the historical record requires, but the case is…
On the afternoon of 18 November 1978, in a clearing in the Guyanese jungle, 918 people died. Most of them were poisoned. Some of them were children. Their leader, a man who had once been celebrated by mayors and congressmen…
A warning before this article. The Whitechapel murders involved sustained physical mutilation of the dead, and any honest account of them must say so. This piece does not dwell on graphic detail beyond what the case requires, but the killings…
A warning: this article concerns a murder whose physical particulars are extraordinarily violent. It is not possible to tell the story honestly without referring to them, and they are part of why the case became famous in the way it…
Five murders. Two survivors. Four ciphers, two of which are still uncracked. More than fifty years of suspects, theories, documentaries, and confessions that turned out to be nothing. The Zodiac is the most famous unsolved case in American criminal history,…
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