r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 3h ago
Capital punishment is surging in the US – but after Christa Pike’s botched execution, what is its future?.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Late-Bug6043 • 1d ago
When self-proclaimed medium Helen Duncan revealed confidential naval intelligence during a seance in 1941, authorities had to figure out if she was a fraudster - or somehow receiving information from beyond the grave. Her trial became a cause célèbre for the then-thriving spiritualist community.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 4d ago
A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the bizarre tale of Otto Z. After his mother died, Otto became convinced he’d been wronged by the forensic investigators – and that one of them was a fraud. The truth was even stranger.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Late-Bug6043 • 5d ago
“Like She Wanted Me to Know All About It”: The Greenbrier Ghost and True Crime’s Uneasy Relationship with the Supernatural
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r/truecrimelongform • u/TheCriminalBiography • 6d ago
Harold Shipman: The Doctor Who Became a Killer… This long-form true crime blog covers cases from the worst criminals to ever walk this earth…
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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 9d ago
The Motorcycle Man - He Confessed to an Afghanistan War Murder. The U.S. Military Promptly Closed the Case.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/No-Advantage-579 • 11d ago
New York Times How to Destroy a Reputation in Hollywood, as Told in 5 Women’s Lawsuits. Five women have said they were the targets of malicious public relations campaigns that were spearheaded by three influential players.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Late-Bug6043 • 15d ago
The Surgeon, the Eunuch Maker, and the Curious Ethical and Legal Status of Voluntary Amputation
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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 19d ago
Texas Monthly He Was a Suspect in the Yogurt Shop Murders for Thirty Years. He Can't Forget. Forrest Welborn spent decades as a suspect in the infamous Austin murders. It all but destroyed his life. This year, he was finally exonerated. So why doesn’t he feel free?
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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 19d ago
A Paranoid Tech Bro, a Homemade Nuclear Bunker, and a Shocking Death - In the tunnels beneath a placid suburban home, an angel investor turned into an angel of doom. [2019]
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hungry-Mixture-7443 • 19d ago
Most of us never find our soulmate. So how do child abusers keep finding each other?
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Think about how rare it is to meet someone you instantly understand. Now think about how rare it should be for two men who abuse children to meet by chance. My essay argues they recognize something in each other that the rest of us miss entirely, and that the same thing is why their neighbors swear they're the nicest guys in town.
r/truecrimelongform • u/raphaellaskies • 23d ago
ChatGPT Helped Tumbler Ridge Shooter Focus on Guns, Tactics, and Terror: OpenAI’s chatbot fed the school shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre, our investigation reveals.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 24d ago
Husband. Father. Prisoner. When his ex-wife abducted his sons and fled to Russia, David Barnes did what any father might do—he tried to save them. Now he’s the one who needs saving.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 24d ago
A tale of two trap houses: being cuckooed ruined my friend’s life – but did it then help save him? Drug gangs have moved off Britain’s streets and into vulnerable people’s homes. Addicts like my friend are easy targets, but the reality can be more complicated than it seems
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 25d ago
She Made Me Do It. The Violent Feud That Shocked the Horse World. A prominent dressage trainer shot a belligerent student—and now maintains that he’s the real victim.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 25d ago
A Promising Young TV Star Was Sentenced to 92 Years for a Brutal Crime He Says He Didn’t Commit. Then a Prison Guard Delivered a Life-Changing Message. At 19, Winston Walters became a rising star after wrestling catfish on television. Then he was convicted of an unspeakable crime.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 29d 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.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 29d ago
Esquire The Women Obsessed With Lindsay Clancy. Horrific crimes have always attracted attention, but the women who have filled the courtroom are seeking something beyond spectacle.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • Sep 14 '26
The Cut A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work. Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • Sep 14 '26
New York Times Inside the Outrageous Collapse of a ‘Montessori Ponzi’. A man with a vision set out to revolutionize preschool. It became a $440 million fiasco.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • Sep 14 '26
ProPublica The Sex Queen of L.A. How a small-town girl from California reinvented America's escort industry
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r/truecrimelongform • u/robhastings • Sep 13 '26
'I took down the Mafia in New York - this was the secret to taking on mob bosses': The inside story of how senior FBI agent Frank Storey brought down the infamous Five Families and changed gangster investigations forever
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r/truecrimelongform • u/No-Advantage-579 • Sep 12 '26
The Cut "Surviving What I Can’t Forgive." Grace Spulak worked as attorney for children and became a foster carer to teenagers. A 17 year old foster son of hers bound her face with ductape, raped her and caused permanent brain damage during the attack.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • Sep 08 '26
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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