May 2011
14 posts
“To one degree or another, all of the women have taken on the role of amateur...”
– Robert Kolker’s “A Serial Killer in Common,” New York Magazine (May 2011)
“There are no good answers. Only a staggering dual loss, captured here in...”
– Serge Kovaleski’s “A Ballplayer. A Bookworm. A Killing,” The New York Times (May 2011)
“Most PIs are ex-cops who sift methodically through clues, dig into files, piece...”
– Robert Huber’s “Eileen Law, Psychic Detective,” Philadelphia Magazine (April 2011)
“At midnight on December 31, when the LAPD closed the books on its 1986 homicide...”
– Matthew McGough’s “The Lazarus File,” The Atlantic (June 2011)
“Depending on your point of view, [Karen] Carr is either a compassionate...”
– Libby Copeland’s “When a Home Birth Ends in Tragedy, Can the Midwife Go to Jail?” Slate’s DoubleX blog (May 2011)
“When Ronnie White, who graduated from Odessa High the year that the murder took...”
– Pamela Colloff’s “A Kiss Before Dying,” Texas Monthly (February 2006)
“It’s jarring, however, to think of a teenage boy — say, a 16-year-old...”
– Ariel Levy’s “Dirty Old Women,” New York Magazine (May 2006)
“Susan Atkins slept about five beds up from me. She was always singing. She was...”
– Virginia Graham in Los Angeles Magazine’s “Manson: An Oral History” (July 2009)
“Part of me thinks the uptick in bloody mama and kinder-killer movies is about as...”
– Manohla Dargis in conversation with A.O. Scott, The New York Times (April 27, 2011)
“Her disappearance was nonetheless alarming for two reasons. The first was that...”
– Robert Draper’s “The Lost Girls of Rocky Mount,” GQ (June 2010) 