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In January 1993, a recording that had sat unheard for more than two years finally reached the editors of two national newspapers. It had been captured in December 1989 by a radio scanner operator who intercepted a private mobile telephone call, at a time before digital encryption made such interception impossible. The caller had no … Read more

Je n’ai jamais cherché leur validation. C’est du moins ce que je me répétais, debout dans mon bureau d’angle, le regard perdu sur l’horizon de Seattle, tandis que la rumeur de la ville montait à travers les parois vitrées. Un courriel clignotait sur mon écran. Il venait de ma sœur cadette. Papa a perdu son … Read more

Mentre il fabbro riparava la serratura della mia porta di casa, all’improvviso è diventato pallido. Le sue mani si sono fermate. Ha posato gli attrezzi uno alla volta, come se cercasse di non fare rumore. Poi mi ha guardato nel modo in cui si guarda qualcuno che sta in piedi vicino al bordo di qualcosa … Read more

On the morning of May 7, 1896, H. H. Holmes climbed the gallows at Moyamensing Prison in Philadelphia with steady hands and a calm voice. The drop was miscalculated. His neck did not break. Instead, the man convicted of murdering Benjamin Pitezel, and suspected of killing dozens more, strangled slowly at the end of the … Read more

At 9:14 on the evening of Friday, March 16, 1956, sixty people in a restaurant called Vesuvio on East 116th Street watched red wine move slowly down the front of a gray suit. It did not splash. It traveled with patience, following the grain of the wool, gathering at the lapel, dropping to the belt … Read more

In the cold winter darkness of January 19, 1889, two wagons and a horse-drawn carriage moved slowly through Dry Creek, a few miles east of Graham, Texas. The first wagon carried six prisoners chained together in pairs, under the watch of a guard named Ple A. Martin. Behind them rode U. S. Deputy Marshal Edward … Read more

Dana Plato was born Dana Michelle Strain on November 7, 1964, in Maywood, California, to a teenage mother who was already caring for an eighteen-month-old child. In June 1965, when Dana was seven months old, she was adopted by Dean Plato, who owned a trucking company, and his wife, Kay. She grew up in the … Read more

In the spring of 1891, a contract surveyor named Hosea Drummond rode into the Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri on assignment for a St. Louis mining company. He was thirty-three years old, hardened by years of outdoor work, and tasked with mapping a remote section of the backcountry for potential mineral deposits. His destination was … Read more

V pátek večer, téměř v deset hodin, stála Megan v obývacím pokoji a třásla se. V telefonu nebyla schopná dokončit větu, protože plakala, takže jsem sedl do auta a jel rovnou k ní. Když jsem dorazil, u okna stál Corey s rukama v kapsách a díval se někam do tmy. A Desmond Whitmore, jeho otec, … Read more

Na svatbě mé sestry stáli rodiče před padesáti hosty a žádali, abych jim jako dárek předal klíče od svého penthouse. Když jsem odmítl, matka mě udeřila tak silně, že zvuk rány se odrazil od mramorové podlahy. Všichni strnuli. Já jsem se nebránil. Jen jsem sebral manžetový knoflíček, narovnal si sako a vyšel ven. Potom jsem … Read more