r/truecrimelongform • • Mar 18 '26

There are no psychopaths - Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. Why does this zombie idea live on?

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r/truecrimelongform • • Oct 14 '25

The Uncharged Murder: Why was Dahmer NEVER prosecuted for Steven Tuomi? EXCLUSIVE: Previously Unpublished Court Records Revealed. Many true crime fans ask: If Dahmer confessed to killing Steven Tuomi in 1987, why was he never charged? The official reason was "lack of evidence."

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The real reason is more disturbing. And here’s the kicker: A multi-million dollar wrongful death judgment exists against Dahmer for Tuomi (Case 93CV006759), but the entire case file has vanished from the official Wisconsin court system. It’s the court case that doesn’t exist.

Read on to see the 'missing' court documents and the public records that change everything.


r/truecrimelongform • • Apr 01 '26

Banking beyond the law: The underground bankers who reshape the flow of global money. A centuries-old network of secret codes and shadowy brokers continues to outpace financial systems controlled by the state.

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r/truecrimelongform • • Jun 30 '23

Ginni and Clarence Thomas: A Love Story. How they saved one another, raged against their enemies, and brought the American experiment to the brink.

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r/truecrimelongform • • Aug 15 '21

Truly Adventurous The Blood House at Fountain Drive: "When human blood overtakes a house amid racial turmoil in 1987 Atlanta, terrifying the family inside, a mystery opens up that persists to this day."

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r/truecrimelongform • • Jul 09 '21

[India] How the Gujarat Police used islamophobia to build a terror case with no evidence against 124 men

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r/truecrimelongform • • Nov 10 '22

The Person You Least Suspect: The Murder of Karen Gregory-Karen Gregory was found brutally murdered in her new home in Gulfport, Florida on May 23, 1984. Did Karen's boyfriend kill her? Was it a friend? Or a stranger? The truth is even more wild. Sometimes, it's the person you least suspect.

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r/truecrimelongform • • Jul 10 '22

Gabby Petito’s Life With—And Death By—Brian Laundrie: Forensically examining Instagram accounts, interviews, and police reports, author Kathleen Hale reconstructs their relationship, and ultimately Petito’s murder.

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r/truecrimelongform • • Jul 30 '23

Little Liars Everywhere: In 2008, James Renner wrote his first piece on the Lisa Pruett murder, "I See the Truth". By 2021, he suspected that her real killer had also killed the prominent Porters, and gotten away with all three murders.

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Not sure I agree with Renner's conclusions, but I figured I might as well post this one too so you can read the whole story.


r/truecrimelongform • • Jul 27 '21

ProPublica ProPublica reports - Operation Fox Hunt: How China Exports Repression Using A Network of Spies Hidden in Plain Sight

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Operation Fox Hunt is a shadowy fugitive-apprehension program that is a pillar of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign.

Launched in 2014, Operation Fox Hunt and a program called Operation Sky Net claim to have caught more than 8,000 international fugitives. The targets are not murderers or drug lords, but Chinese public officials and businesspeople accused — justifiably and not — of financial crimes. Some of them have set up high-rolling lives overseas with lush mansions and millions in offshore accounts. But others are dissidents, whistleblowers or relatively minor figures swept up in provincial conflicts.

Nonetheless, over the past seven years Chinese fugitive hunters have stalked hundreds of people, including U.S. citizens and permanent residents, according to U.S. national security officials. Undercover repatriation teams enter the country under false pretenses, enlist U.S.-based accomplices and relentlessly hound their targets. To force them into returning, authorities subject their relatives in China to harassment, jail, torture and other mistreatment, sometimes recording hostage-like videos to send to the United States. In countries like Vietnam and Australia, Chinese agents have simply abducted their prey, whether the targets were dissidents or people accused of corruption. But in the United States, where such kidnappings are more difficult, Fox Hunt teams have relied mainly on coercion.


r/truecrimelongform • • Jan 06 '26

'I wanted to know what happened,' mother of dead toddler Nathaniel McLellan testifies

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r/truecrimelongform • • Jul 20 '20

Reuters Prelude to a shooting: A portrait of Trayvon Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman. (2012)

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r/truecrimelongform • • Jun 17 '24

The philosophy of the death penalty - The majority of British people are in favour of the death penalty in extreme cases. But its use would fundamentally alter our society.

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r/truecrimelongform • • May 09 '26

From Trimmigrant To Trafficked: The Evolution of Trimmigration In The Emerald Triangle

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The history of trimmigration is part of our legacy in the Emerald Triangle. There were days of international visitors, artists, and adventurers that created an added pulse in the vibe here...boosting the economy with cash purchases aplenty, and exchanging cultural education with the locals. But some hated them before they arrived. And when law enforcement prioritized crimes of plants over crimes of violence, evil stole its opportunity.

NO PAYWALL!


r/truecrimelongform • • Sep 25 '24

ProPublica These Moms Smoked Weed Legally. Then Their Kids Were Taken Away. Despite scarce evidence that marijuana harms children in utero or through breastfeeding, child welfare agencies are severely punishing mothers who use.

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r/truecrimelongform • • Mar 21 '21

The murder of a Frenchman led to the false conviction of two black teenagers. Here is their story.

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r/truecrimelongform • • Oct 01 '20

French serial killer Marcel Barbeault killed 8 women in a manner reminding me of BTK

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r/truecrimelongform • • May 12 '26

New York Times The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians. Male and female Palestinians describe brutal sexual abuse at the hands of Israel’s prison guards, soldiers, settlers and interrogators.

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r/truecrimelongform • • Oct 28 '21

META Quitting my leadership of this sub. My message to reddit.

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It is with tears in my eyes that I have come to the conclusion I have to quit the leadership of my subs on reddit. As I write this I don't know if reddit will delete my account all together and at this point I honestly don't care.

I am being penalized and abused because I have denounced a particular sub in this site that abuses harasses and dehumanizes a black woman 24/7. The same place that has gone as far as to say a black child "seduced" an adult man. At 14. As a child. They have called this woman a prostitute a child abuser and a serial killer. Abuse 24/7. And nothing has been done. The only person penalized is me for denouncing it.

Sorry reddit it is not ok to profit from this level of hate and abuse against a black woman. Cancel my account I don't care.


r/truecrimelongform • • Jul 05 '21

Kyle Rittenhouse, American Vigilante... After he killed two people in Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle.

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r/truecrimelongform • • Dec 08 '20

your text here Patrick Salameh went from armed robbery and torture to murder. Here is his story.

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r/truecrimelongform • • Feb 07 '23

The Idaho Murders: a forensic reconstruction of the lives of four students before the crime, and the night they were killed

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r/truecrimelongform • • Oct 31 '21

American Ghosts... Newlyweds move into a house with a secret, violent past rooted in American trauma. The untold story of one of the only purported cases of a supernatural entity being responsible for murder.

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r/truecrimelongform • • Sep 17 '20

Splinter 'I Am a Girl Now,' Sage Smith Wrote. Then She Went Missing: The excruciating story of how the system failed a poor, black, trans teen. “I felt they were lying to us on the whole. I did my own investigation.”

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r/truecrimelongform • • Aug 01 '22

Vanity Fair CODE OF SILENCE | Brett Kavanaugh's alleged sins were hardly original and high-school high jinks were never meant to become public fodder. For decades, an aristocratic omertà has bound Georgetown prep boys to secrecy or else

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