50 Great True Crime Stories: True Crime Articles to Read Online
The best long reads about real murder cases, true crime mysteries, robberies, cybercrime and more - all free to read onlineMurder Stories
The Body in Room 348 by Mark Bowden
The corpse at the Eleganté Hotel stymied the Beaumont, Texas, police. They could find no motive for the killing and no explanation for how he had received his strange internal injuries...The Case of the Vanishing Blonde by Mark Bowden
How did a 21-year-old blonde disappear from a hotel room, unseen by security cameras?True Crime by David Grann
A postmodern murder mysteryThe Lazarus File by Matthew McGough
Re-opening a cold case with startling resultsThe Truck Stop Killer by Vanessa Veselka
He was methodical, he rode the highways, and he preyed on teenage girls. Girls who'd run away. Girls no one would miss. In the summer of 1985, the author was such a girl...The Poet by Corey Mead
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.The Girl in the Picture by Nile Cappello
A sketch artist and a grieving mother set out to solve a cold case. The more they dug, the more terrifying the truth became...Mysterious Circumstances by David Grann
The strange death of a Sherlock Holmes fanaticThe Unbelievable Tale of a Fake Hitman, a Kill List, a Darknet Vigilante... and a Murder by Gian M. Volpicell
Hitman-for-hire darknet sites are all scams. But some people turn up dead nonethelessThe Sicario by Charles Bowden
A Juárez hit man speaksCybercrime
The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin by Andy Greenberg
The notorious Alpha02 oversaw millions of dollars a day in online narcotic sales. For cybercrime detectives, he was public enemy number one—and a total mysteryCrooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones by Ed Caesar
Drug syndicates and other criminal groups bought into the idea that a new kind of phone network couldn’t be infiltrated by cops. They were wrong.The Incredible Rise of North Korea’s Hacking Army by Ed Caesar
The country’s cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts. Can they be stopped?The Untold Story of Silk Road by Joshuah Bearman
The postman only rang once. Curtis Green was at home, greeting the morning with 64 ounces of Coca-Cola and powdered mini doughnuts...The Young and the Reckless by Brendan I. Koerner
A gang of teen hackers snatched the keys to Microsoft's videogame empire. Then they went too far.The Most Deceptive Hack in History by Andy Greenberg
How digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyer—and why the next big attack will be even harder to crack.How an Entire Nation Became Russia's Test Lab for Cyberwar by Andy Greenberg
Blackouts in Ukraine were just a trial run. Russian hackers are learning to sabotage infrastructure—and the US could be next.Crypto
The Crypto Trap by Andy Greenberg
Inside the Bitcoin bust that took down the web’s biggest child abuse siteThey Stole a Quarter-Billion in Crypto and Got Caught Within a Month by Mitch Moxley
How luxury cars, $500,000 bar tabs and a mysterious kidnapping attempt helped investigators unravel the heist of a lifetimeDrugs
Coronado High by Joshuah Bearman
How a gang of surfers ran one of the biggest smuggling operations in historyThe Dangers of Stash by Brendan I. Koerner
Alfred Anaya put secret compartments in cars. So the DEA put him in prison.The Trials of White Boy Rick by Evan Hughes
Was one of Detroit’s most notorious criminals really an FBI informant?Cocaine Incorporated by Patrick Radden Keefe
The drug war in Mexico has claimed more than 50,000 lives since 2006. But what tends to get lost amid coverage of this epic bloodletting is just how effective the drug business has become...The Hunt for El Chapo by Patrick Radden Keefe
How the world's most notorious drug lord was capturedCorporate Crime
How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals by Sharon Lerner
The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling themEat What You Kill by J. David McSwane
As the myth surrounding a high-profile oncologist grew, so did the trail of patient harm and suspicious deaths.The $9 Billion Witness by Matt Taibbi
Meet the woman JPMorgan Chase paid one of the largest fines in American history to keep from talkingThe Biggest Tax Scam Ever by Tim Dickinson
How some of America's top corporations are parking profits overseas and ducking hundreds of billions in taxesKidnapping
The Kidnapping I Can’t Escape by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Fifty years ago, my father’s friend was taken at gunpoint on Long Island. Then he went on with his life — and that’s the part that haunts me.Adventures in the Ransom Trade by William Prochnau
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150 Great Articles and Essays
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Robbery, Heists and Theft
The Great Buenos Aires Bank Heist by Josh Dean
They were an all-star crew. They cooked up the perfect plan. And when they pulled off the caper of the century, it made them more than a fortune—it made them folk heroes.The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Diamond Heist by Joshua Davis
The robbery was called the heist of the century, and even now the police can't explain exactly how it was done...The Greatest Heist in British History by Mark Seal
How a ragtag gang of retirees pulled off the biggest jewel heist in British historyThe Art of the Steal by Joshua Bearman
On the trail of world’s most ingenious thiefThe British Museum’s Blockbuster Scandals by Rebecca Mead
While facing renewed accusations of cultural theft, the institution announced that it had been the victim of actual theft—from someone on the inside.Pipino: Gentleman Thief by Joshua Davis and David Wolman
Magicians, mafiosos, a missing painting, and the heist of a lifetimeThe Hold-Up Artist by Malcolm Johnston
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter BanditStealing Mona Lisa by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
The shocking theft of the Mona Lisa, in August 1911, appeared to have been solved 28 months later. But did it conceal a perfect—and far more lucrative—crime?Bike Batman by Christopher Solomon
He didn't mean to become a stolen-goods vigilante. But sometimes, the cape finds youThe Great Freight-Train Heists of the 21st Century by Malia Wollan
The explosion of the e-commerce economy has created an opportunity for thieves — and a conundrum for the railways.How an Amateur Art Sleuth Cracked a Ice Cold Case by Adam Leith Gollner
For 43 years, police were stumped—until the dashing, enigmatic Clifford Schorer III went searching for clues online.The Bank Drama by Daniel Lang
Four hostages were taken during a bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1973. How did they come to sympathize with their captors?Other True Crime Cases
Behind a Locked Door by Margaret Talbot
As a girl in Austria, Evy Mages was sent to a mysterious villa where a doctor performed cruel experiments. Decades later, she learned why.Inside the Carjacking Crisis by Jamie Thompson
On the street with an elite police unit as it combats a crime waveFoot. Loose. by Christopher Solomon
When feet started washing up in the dark, misty Pacific Northwest, it wasn't hard to imagine the worst....Crimetown USA by David Grann
The city that fell in love with the mobUncatchable by Michael Finkel
George Wright, America's most elusive fugitive, ran for forty years...Sex Crime
An Unbelieveable Story of Rape by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong
An 18-year-old said she was attacked at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where our story beginsAfter Two Decades Undercover, She’s Ready to Tell the Real Story of Human Trafficking by Alex Morris
For years, former FBI Special Agent Nikki Badolato led the FBI's Child Exploitation Task Force targeting some of the most heinous criminals. Now she wants Americans to know the truth about underage sex crimesIn Plain View by Malcolm Gladwell
How child molesters get away with itForgery
The Great Paper Caper by Wells Tower
How the most prolific counterfeiter in American history — a guy with more than $200 million in nearly flawless fake twenties stuffed in a garage got away scot freeThe Ultimate Counterfeiter by David Wolman
He isn't a crook, he's an artistBooks
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
A masterpiece of narrative journalism.Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by John Berendt
A great true crime story that reads like a novel.
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The chilling true tale of one of the world's prolific serial killers.
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