r/truecrimelongform

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.

torontolife.com
u/Hot_Track5341 — 2 days ago

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.

investigatewest.org
u/Hot_Track5341 — 4 days ago
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A Hollywood Ending - My brother’s murder and its aftermath - After my brother, Asher, was shot and killed on June 17, 1992, friends and family told me I had to deal with the tragedy or it would eat me alive.

magazine.atavist.com
u/DevonSwede — 7 days ago

A Family Erased: The Chris Coleman Story. Could a father strangle his wife and young sons just to keep a high salary and a sexy mistress? And if not, who did? [2011]

stlmag.com
u/DevonSwede — 8 days ago
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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.

nytimes.com
u/haloarh — 10 days ago

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.

magazine.atavist.com
u/Hot_Track5341 — 11 days ago

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.

motherjones.com
u/Hot_Track5341 — 11 days ago