Bad, bad, bad, bad Roommate. How a nightmare housing situation drove a bleeding-heart progressive to home surveillance, eviction law, and calling in law enforcement.
Client Challenge. He was an addict. She was his counselor. He was locked up for a dangerous infatuation. Nothing was as it seemed. Who was the real stalker?
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father was the infamous Rolex Killer. His crimes fractured my family and nearly broke me. Then came the reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—and with them, a whole new circle of hell.
Australian tradies and apprentices are being targeted by social media influencers claiming to hold the secrets to financial freedom. Some insist it is the best decision they have ever made, while others have told triple j hack it has left them feeling “trapped”, “brainwashed” and out of pocket.
He Was Fired for Sexually Harassing Students. California Allowed Him to Keep Teaching Anyway. A California teacher was deemed “unfit to teach” after students reported him for touching them in ways that made them uncomfortable, but his credentials were not revoked.
Oregon prosecutors said she didn’t protect her baby. She says she was surviving abuse. Even in states like Oregon without an explicit “failure to protect” law, abused mothers can face prison time.
A girl caught in a custody battle said she was raped. The court-appointed investigator didn’t believe her. Though a Washington state judge said a guardian ad litem failed to do her job, by then, the child’s mother says, the damage had already been done.
Big Game. Colorado’s San Luis Valley was a wildlife poacher’s paradise.
Then an undercover federal agent arrived. A federal agent spent 15 months undercover as a taxidermist in a Colorado valley where his landlord was one of his targets and threatened to shoot him if he figured it out.
In Chicago, Prosecutors Fight to Keep Exonerated People from Clearing Their Names. Under State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, Cook County prosecutors have tried to block nearly every exonerated person who has sought a certificate of innocence. It's another stark sign of how Burke has changed the o
He Remade the Southern Baptist Convention in His Image. Then Came the Abuse Allegations. Paul Pressler helped ordain the marriage between white evangelicals and the Republican Party, all while accusations of sexual abuse piled up. Right-wing groups are still using his political playbook.
ChatGPT gave me chilling advice—as I simulated planning a mass shooting. I asked about imitating the Uvalde attacker, defending against police gunfire, and more—everything short of directly stating intent to kill.