May 2011
14 posts
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)
April 2011
8 posts
Nancy Goldstein: Getting Away with Murder on Long... →
ladyjournos:
The press, the police — and the killer(s) who dump women’s bodies along Ocean Parkway
The American Prospect || April 21, 2011
This is the story of what happens when a judge takes that power and starts doing...
– “Very Tough Love,” This American Life (March 2011)
‘You are certainly my most entertaining student,’ said my adviser...
– Elif Batuman’s “The Murder of Leo Tolstoy,” Harper’s (February 2009)
Camera crews from local news stations, Good Morning America, Dateline NBC, and...
– Nancy Jo Sales’ “The Suspects Wore Louboutins,” Vanity Fair (March 2010)
It’s Sunday night, and the woman’s details have been unearthed online and are...
– M.J. Hyland’s “The Trial of Mary Bale,” Financial Times (March 2011)
‘The first man she killed, it made her sick,’ Ms. Loman said....
– Malcolm Gay’s “Dark Past in Balkan War Intrudes on New Life,” The New York Times (April 2011)
March 2011
4 posts