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James Bond and the Killer Bag Lady
In November 1985, a woman who appeared to be a homeless drifter staked out the offices of 80-year-old banker Nicholas Deak, waited until he returned from lunch, then executed Deak and his secretary. As police wrestled her to the floor, she said “Don’t hurt me. He told me I could carry the gun.”
| Salon | Dec 2012
Maisie Crow is probably my favorite multimedia storyteller out there today. Her latest, from the Atavist and in collaboration with Alissa Quart, on Mississippi’s last abortion clinic.
Cpl. Lisa Steed tasers suspected drunk driver. A lawsuit was filed in December accusing the Utah Highway Patrolwoman of faking dozens of D.U.I arrests. (Video uploaded by SLCityWeekly.)
Sarah Jaffe: Trickle-Down Feminism
It’s time to not just to pay lip service to “the end of men,” but to place real value on women’s work.
Dissent Magazine || Winter 2013
“Everything You Need to Know About Steubenville High’s Football ‘Rape Crew’” is too glib a title
But if you haven’t been following the case (or if you haven’t read Juliet Macur and Nate Schweiber’s lengthy article about it in The New York Times, which you should), take a read through The Atlantic Wire’s explainer/timeline.
(Of note is crime blogger Alexandria Goddard’s influence on the case; it vaguely reminds me of the Stephanie Lazarus trial, and the detail-stuffed takedown of Mark Bowden’s Vanity Fair feature on the case by blogger Betsy A. Ross. If you’re interested in the Lazarus case, skip Bowden and read Matthew McGough’s Atlantic feature.)
“In Jennifer’s Room,” as part of Ryan Gabrielson and California Watch’s Broken Shield investigation into the abuse of the developmentally disabled across the state.
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Photos of Joy Hunley take by Melissa Lyttle to accompany Michael Kruse’s Floridian magazine feature, “Biological Mother Makes MIssion of Contesting Adoption After 31 Years.” Read it.
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