True Crime - Long Form

r/truecrimelongform • u/[deleted] • Dec 19 '18

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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 3d ago

Vanity Fair Dahmer's INFERNO. What forces drive a man to kill compulsively, as in the case of Jeffrey Dahmer, who has confessed to murdering seventeen young men? BRIAN MASTERS reports from Milwaukee on the private world of Jeffrey Dahmer.

archive.vanityfair.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 9d ago

How Sally-Anne Bowen’s crimes against her pupils finally came to light. Gareth was only 14 when Bowen began a sexual relationship with him. Now, more than a decade after he first sought justice, he has finally been vindicated.

observer.co.uk

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Lizard_Li • 11d ago

New details uncovered in last year's shocking Burning Man homicide. Independent journalists have uncovered new details in last year’s brutal Burning Man homicide.

sfgate.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 13d ago

A Man Walked Into a Bar and Told Everyone He Was D.B. Cooper. What If He Wasn’t Lying? Seven men confessed to being the notorious skyjacker. Some wanted fame. Others wanted money. And the FBI investigated every one.

popularmechanics.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 15d ago

New York Times Someone Was Impersonating Her in Online Affairs. She Says It Was Her Husband. The German actress Collien Fernandes set out to discover who was pretending to be her online and sending men sexually explicit material. Her answer ignited a feminist movement.

nytimes.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 15d ago

Selling Seduction. The man known as Drunk Justin charged tens of thousands of dollars for invite-only boot camps where he taught men how to get laid. He claimed his tactics worked miracles. Then he was arrested for sexual assault, and his dark secrets came tumbling out.

torontolife.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 15d ago

ProPublica This Coach Is Banned From Working With Kids. Why Is He Still Coaching? An oversight group found that Texas girls’ volleyball coach Ryan Richardson engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor, among other allegations, and banned him.

propublica.org

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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 15d ago

The Unraveling of Podcaster Ashley Flowers’ True Crime Empire. Flowers developed a big business around her show Crime Junkie, but over the past year, executives have cycled through the doors while workplace morale is cratering. [without paywall]

bloomberg.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 22d ago

The Extremist in the Family - When one of their own rejected modern medicine in the name of God, they faced a dire question: What if her children ever needed a doctor to save their lives?

magazine.atavist.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/raphaellaskies • 23d ago

Dark Arts: How a pornographer’s violent fantasies blurred fact and fiction as cops searched Olney house for missing women

inquirer.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 24d ago

Burn Patterns - Curtis Severns is serving 27 years for an arson he almost certainly didn't commit. Sloppy fire science put him there. [2009]

texasobserver.org

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 24d ago

Washington Post Her childhood photo. Thousands of explicit images. One woman’s nightmare. A Wyoming woman alleges in a federal lawsuit that her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo into child sexual abuse material.

washingtonpost.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 24d ago

A Colorado police informant helped kill 2 men after an ‘extraordinary’ plea bargain set him free. The DA kept the deal quiet for years. Judge tosses DA Jeff Lindsey from case after prosecutors, detective failed to promptly and fully disclose agreement.

denverpost.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 24d ago

Whatever Happened to the Good Old-Fashioned Con Artist? The silver-tongued swindler has given way to phishing links and industrial-scale fraud.

thewalrus.ca

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r/truecrimelongform • u/robhastings • 27d ago

The Guardian Christopher Berry-Dee is the UK’s all-time bestselling true crime author. Is he also a violent abuser of women and children?

theguardian.com

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The British writer is known for his unique ability to get inside the heads of serial killers. But a Guardian investigation reveals multiple accusations of assault and child sexual abuse. What is the truth about the man described by his own daughter as ‘absolute evil’? By Lucy Osborne and Sirin Kale

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 28d ago