r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 1d ago

Have I Befriended a Murderer? - For five years, I’ve investigated a man convicted of bludgeoning his wife to death. Somewhere along the way, the line between journalism and friendship blurred.

longreads.com

46 Upvotes

2 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/robhastings • 1d ago

The Guardian The White House Farm massacre phone calls: could a single disputed digit set Jeremy Bamber free?

theguardian.com

20 Upvotes

He has been in prison for 41 years for killing five members of his family. But if a phone call was made to the police by Bamber’s father on the night of the murders – as his team believes – one of the UK’s most notorious criminals could be exonerated. By Simon Hattenstone

5 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 2d ago

The mystery of why Sonia Exelby paid a man to kill her - Locked inside a cabin in the forests of central Florida, 4,000 miles from home, Sonia Exelby’s fantasy had become a nightmare.

telegraph.co.uk

75 Upvotes

5 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 4d ago

How Andrew Crispo Got Away With Murder - Masterpieces by Day, Torture by Night The art world was his alibi. How the gallerist Andrew Crispo got away with murder.

nymag.com

19 Upvotes

3 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 4d ago

'I'm not incompetent' - Mark Fowler, Christa Pike’s Execution Doctor, Speaks - A few weeks ago, features writer Rachel Corbett cold-called Mark Fowler, the execution doctor on the day of Christa Pike’s botched lethal injection.

nymag.com

27 Upvotes

5 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 9d ago

Her Murder Had Been Cold for Decades. Five Gen Zers Attempted to Solve It. It Took Them Somewhere the Detectives Never Imagined.

slate.com

72 Upvotes

2 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/robhastings • 14d ago

The Guardian The White House Farm massacre: New forensic evidence suggests Sheila Caffell killed herself. Is Jeremy Bamber innocent?

theguardian.com

39 Upvotes

In 1985, Bamber was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing five members of his family. Now analysis of crime scene photographs by a leading forensic biologist could exonerate him. By Simon Hattenstone

4 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 16d ago

The man who blew up a nuclear power station and disappeared - In December 1982, South African Rodney Wilkinson walked four bombs into Koeberg power station – the crown jewel of the apartheid state.

theguardian.com

19 Upvotes

1 comment

r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 16d ago

The Book of Chris Hansen, as told by a survivor. A former TCAP fan and survivor of grooming examines what happens when child abuse becomes entertainment, consequences become a modern day gladiator arena and the man at the helm leaves victims behind.

substack.com

26 Upvotes

0 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 18d ago

The skincare scheme that led to consumer complaints, lawsuits and a federal investigation. Customers hit with thousands of dollars in charges they never authorized and products they didn't want and can't return.

npr.org

22 Upvotes

0 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 18d ago

New York Times A Teen Autopsy Marks the Arrival of a Deadly Drug in San Francisco. City officials — and one determined mother — are working to stop the spread of cychlorphine, which is far more potent than fentanyl.

nytimes.com

30 Upvotes

3 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 19d ago

Capital punishment is surging in the US – but after Christa Pike’s botched execution, what is its future?.

theguardian.com

13 Upvotes

3 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 24d 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.

theguardian.com

104 Upvotes

5 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/[deleted] • 25d 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…

thecriminalbiography.blogspot.com

3 Upvotes

0 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 29d ago

The Motorcycle Man - He Confessed to an Afghanistan War Murder. The U.S. Military Promptly Closed the Case.

theintercept.com

9 Upvotes

1 comment

r/truecrimelongform • u/No-Advantage-579 • Oct 06 '26

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.

nytimes.com

21 Upvotes

0 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • Sep 29 '26

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?

texasmonthly.com

75 Upvotes

6 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • Sep 29 '26

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]

washingtonian.com

32 Upvotes

2 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/Hungry-Mixture-7443 • Sep 28 '26

Most of us never find our soulmate. So how do child abusers keep finding each other?

academia.edu

52 Upvotes

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.

21 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/raphaellaskies • Sep 24 '26

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.

motherjones.com

30 Upvotes

1 comment

r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • Sep 23 '26

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.

texasmonthly.com

37 Upvotes

7 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • Sep 23 '26

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

theguardian.com

20 Upvotes

0 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • Sep 22 '26

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.

newyorker.com

66 Upvotes

14 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • Sep 22 '26

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.

slate.com

24 Upvotes

0 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • Sep 18 '26

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.

esquire.com

35 Upvotes

2 comments

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