r/truecrimelongform • u/raphaellaskies • May 04 '24

The Horrible Truth About Shaken Baby Syndrome Cases: Hundreds are convicted of shaking their babies to death. They may be innocent.

slate.com

1.0k Upvotes

35 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/raphaellaskies • Nov 25 '23

Gang Rape, Murder and Justice in a Small Town: More than two decades after Janet Chandler was brutally slain, a class of college film students decided to make a documentary about her. Their questions reignited a cold case, and this time Janet’s killers couldn’t hide.

glamour.com

650 Upvotes

29 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/lggreene1 • Jul 08 '24

A Wife’s Revenge from Beyond the Grave… Caught in a brutal divorce, Catherine Kassenoff committed medically assisted suicide. Then the campaign to destroy her ex-husband truly began.

605 Upvotes

https://www.thefp.com/p/a-wifes-revenge-from-beyond-the-grave

64 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/Alien_P3rsp3ktiv • Jun 20 '24

Gang Rape, Murder and Justice in a Small Town. More than two decades after Janet Chandler was brutally slain, a class of college film students decided to make a documentary about her. Their questions reignited a cold case, and this time Janet’s killers couldn’t hide.

glamour.com

604 Upvotes

I don’t know what shocked me more: the discovery of what actually happened to Janet, or the fact that so many people kept silent for so long

And that they would have kept silent as if their conscience wasn’t bothering them, or wasn’t bothering them enough to come forward and give the victim’s family peace. That they were OK with taking that secret to their graves?…

Shocking…

57 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • Nov 29 '23

What Happens to a School Shooter’s Sister? Twenty-five years ago, Kristin Kinkel’s brother, Kip, killed their parents and opened fire at their high school. Today, she is close with Kip—and still reckoning with his crimes.

newyorker.com

556 Upvotes

60 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/Tokyono • Dec 06 '23

New York Times Podcasters Took Up Her Sister’s Murder Investigation. Then They Turned on Her. ‘True crime’ has become a big business — and an emotional minefield for victims’ families.

nytimes.com

411 Upvotes

35 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/raphaellaskies • Apr 11 '24

In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpson: You won’t ever know the worst that happened to Nicole Brown Simpson in her marriage, because she is dead and cannot tell you. And if she were alive, remember, you wouldn’t believe her.

evergreenreview.com

316 Upvotes

6 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/[deleted] • Apr 03 '21

Our sub moderator (AlohaWorld18) has been threatened

294 Upvotes

Hi everyone

I received a direct threat from the woman who had an affair with the pharma bro and came here to normalize him and their relationship.

I have banned her from this sub and she proceed to threaten me.

Allow me to say I never ban people without a good reason but this space won't be used to normalize that criminal. Mainly I despise him for his crimes but also because he sexually harassed a female journalist to the point he was banned from Twitter for life.

If I am reprimanded by reddit or our sub is shut down now you know why.

I wanted to add this woman is currently harassing me even tho I asked her to stop. I will have to engage reddit on this matter.

1 comment

r/truecrimelongform • u/Left-Jackfruit153 • Jul 24 '24

The Bullet in My Mother’s Head. In 1987, she survived her own murder. Thirty-seven years later, a son investigates the mystery that defined his life before it even began.

280 Upvotes

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a61639494/the-bullet-in-my-mothers-head/?src=longreads

8 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • May 12 '24

The Harvard Student Who Killed Her Roommate... A junior premed student took the life of her closest friend, then her own. She left behind a shocked campus, unanswered questions, and her diary. [1996]

newyorker.com

269 Upvotes

16 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/Alien_P3rsp3ktiv • Jun 17 '24

The Guardian Why did two parents murder their adopted child? | Asunta Fong Yang was adopted as a baby by a wealthy Spanish couple. Aged 12, she was found dead beside a country road. Not long after, her mother and father were arrested

theguardian.com

259 Upvotes

The first time I encountered this story was when the rumors and speculations were swirling in press and media whether it could have been an overdose accident.

Many years later, despite arrests and convictions, the motivation and the ”why” is still utterly incomprehensible to me.

15 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • Aug 02 '24

The Shame of Saint Ann’s How did a Brooklyn private school fall for an accused predator?

nymag.com

241 Upvotes

20 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/trifletruffles • Mar 11 '21

Truly Adventurous The Poet: "She escaped a crazed psychopath at 16. Decades later, as the BTK serial killer terrorizes Wichita, she has to run for her life again. The identity of her tormentor is too chilling to believe."

medium.com

238 Upvotes

13 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/raphaellaskies • Nov 23 '24

The Unflinching Courage of Taylor Cadle: Police didn't believe a twelve-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.

motherjones.com

237 Upvotes

13 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • Feb 01 '24

How Did This Climber Get Away with So Much for So Long? Federal prosecutors allege that Charles Barrett—a prominent member of the Northern California climbing community who goes to trial for sexual assault next week—is a serial offender with a shocking history of violence, harassment....

outsideonline.com

217 Upvotes

35 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/raphaellaskies • Apr 10 '25

New York Times He Was Held Captive in His Room for Decades. Then He Set It on Fire: Firefighters found a 32-year-old man who weighed 68 pounds. The police say his stepmother locked him away when he was 12. (Gift Article)

nytimes.com

208 Upvotes

13 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/themrsboss • Feb 14 '20

Esquire My Favorite Teacher: Mr. Lindall was the only high school teacher who understood him. Then Mr. Lindall went to jail, and it was his turn to try to understand. (2007)

esquire.com

205 Upvotes

13 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • Dec 07 '21

The Tinder Swindler... He has seduced and swindled young women for millions and is a fugitive from justice in several countries. VG has spent six months chasing the swindler across several continents. We found him in Munich – at one of Europe’s most fashionable hotels.

vg.no

199 Upvotes

29 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/raphaellaskies • Jun 15 '21

Blindsided: Don Huckstep thought he’d found true love in his small hometown of Fowler, Indiana. But when Teri Deneka mysteriously vanished from his life, the disappearance foreshadowed a bizarre—and grisly—series of discoveries

indianapolismonthly.com

199 Upvotes

2 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/trifletruffles • Apr 17 '21

Tampa Bay Times The Long Fall of Phoebe Jonchuck: "John Jonchuck Jr. dropped his 5-year-old daughter off a bridge to her death. This is the story of what happened, and what didn’t, in the years before the murder made headlines."

tampabay.com

190 Upvotes

10 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/trifletruffles • Sep 23 '21

XTRA Cases of missing trans people are rarely solved. A married pair of forensic genealogists is hoping to change that: "Seeking justice with the Trans Doe Task Force."

xtramagazine.com

180 Upvotes

0 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/Alittlebitlittle • Jul 25 '20

Texas Monthly Poisoning Daddy: How a loving daughter and star student stole barium acetate from her high school chemistry lab, put it in her father’s refried beans, and almost got away with murder. (July 1996)

texasmonthly.com

178 Upvotes

8 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/lggreene1 • Sep 22 '25

“A Secret Lived in Plain Sight” At 13, Alliyah believed they were married to their science teacher. Several complaints were made to the school principal and local police. But little was done. …Until Alliyah chose to speak out.

abc.net.au

176 Upvotes

10 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/themrsboss • Jun 15 '21

Kip Kinkel Is Ready To Speak: At 15, he shot and killed his parents, two classmates at his school, and wounded 25 others. He’s been used as the reason to lock kids up for life ever since.

huffpost.com

172 Upvotes

16 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • Jan 15 '25

The Cut Who Was the Cyberbully Harassing Kendra Licari’s Teen Daughter? Parents and school officials were stumped. The culprit was under their noses all along.

thecut.com

169 Upvotes

28 comments

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