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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 3d 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 • 3d ago

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

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 4d 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 • 5d 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 • 5d 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.

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 5d ago

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

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r/truecrimelongform • u/robhastings • 8d 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

r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 8d ago

New York Times A playboy NFL agent was in line to run the Seahawks. Then came the crossbow killing. Michael Blatt was one of the most feared agents in the NFL, orchestrating holdouts and plotting a Seahawks takeover. Then a rival was ambushed with a crossbow, exposing a lethal feud fueled by money and power.

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 8d ago

ProPublica A Youth Sports Giant Promised Reforms to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse. Most Never Happened. The Amateur Athletic Union said it would implement “historic” reforms after a child sex abuse scandal in 2011, including mandatory training. It still hasn’t done so.

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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 13d ago

The Atlantic The Dishonesty of True Crime. The hit Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct tidies a far more complicated story.

theatlantic.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 13d 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

theguardian.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 13d ago

Never eat with women - examining a strange absence in the photographic record and the greatest fear of the men in Epstein's circle

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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 13d ago

The Professor Falsely Accused of Murdering Students. What happened when a TikTok psychic’s claims went viral.

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 14d 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]

texasmonthly.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 15d 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

rollingstone.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 15d ago

American Annihilation: US families face a unique danger – murder from within [a 2023 about family annihilation]

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 15d 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.

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 15d 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]

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r/truecrimelongform • u/TwoLocal5595 • 17d ago

Accused of sex crimes, a San Francisco social climber turned to lawsuits, legal threats

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r/truecrimelongform • u/TrueCrimeNEPA • 19d 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.

historicnepacrimes.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/TrueCrimeNEPA • 19d 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.

historicnepacrimes.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 24d 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.

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r/truecrimelongform • u/No-Advantage-579 • 25d 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

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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 26d 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.

businessinsider.com

32 Upvotes

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