Your weekend just got spectacular thanks to Los Angeles magazine. Behold their shiny new crime section, where they’ve gathered their best long-form reporting on all things grisly, combined with maps, a “vintage crime” blog, and oh so much more. Some good places to start reading:
- Amy Wallace reconnects with Betty Broderick, a woman convicted of killing her ex-husband, decades after Wallace published a newspaper article centered around Broderick’s confession.
- Mike Kessler’s brilliantly reported story on the disappearance of Matrice Richardson.
- Michelle McNamara’s recent feature on investigating a possible serial killer (with the help of the internet).
- And, of course, Jesse Katz’s absurdly great profile of “valley boy gangsta” Jesse James Hollywood.
Enjoy.
“Beautiful, bikini model, gorgeous. ‘A Farah Fawcett look-alike,’ she was actually a contestant for the title. This is what you’ll hear about Debra Davis, as well as the fact she was murdered by her jealous boyfriend, who says he looked on while Whitey Bulger strangled her.” -David Boeri, from WBUR’s new series on the mobster.
Everything you ever wanted to know about women and the death penalty
My beloved home state.
(Source: The New York Times)
(Source: The Awl)
Alyse Emdur, right, visiting her brother in prison. Check out her new book, Prison Landscapes, and read more about her project on the Lens blog.
I thank you, Netflix.
From WBUR, everything you need to know about former chemist Annie Dookhan, who “has been charged with deliberately manipulating drug tests, compromising thousands of criminal cases.”
“Mr. Sargeant, there’s nothing wrong with your mum.”
(Source: blogs.smithsonianmag.com)
“Yet the family she has created will never quite replace the family she lost. And the biggest photo on the wall is not of her boys but of an eerily familiar scene. It is the snapshot that Nilsa Padilla sent home to Puerto Rico — the one in which she’s smiling and holding up baby Bernisa for the world to see.
“Gloria stares up at the woman whose murder was her first memory and says, ‘I think she loved us.’”
(Source: miaminewtimes.com)
