Andrea Dunlop: The Mother Next Door
One type of crime we don’t talk about much is Munchausen by proxy. It’s a mental health condition and a form of child abuse. It's where a caregiver exaggerates, makes up, or induces physical or psycho...
13 Apr 59min
Susan Orlean: The Library Book
Author Susan Orlean wrote a best-selling book years ago that you’ve probably heard of: The Orchid Thief. It was made into a movie called Adaptation. Susan has now written another book—this one about a...
6 Apr 59min
William J. Mann: Black Dahlia
One of the most enduring mysteries in crime history is the horrible murder of Elizabeth Short. The Black Dhalia case has been told over and over again, including by Paul Holes and me on Buried Bones. ...
30 Mar 56min
Paula Lavigne: Murder at the U
This is our second ESPN story about the intersection between sports and murder. ESPN was asked by the Miami-Dade Police to look into the 2006 murder of a star football player at the University of Miam...
23 Mar 1h 1min
Rachel Nuwer: The School for Wildlife Traffickers
I’ve never interviewed someone about wildlife trafficking, but journalist Rachel Nuwer’s story for The Economist was so compelling that I wanted to explore it. It’s about an orphanage in Africa where ...
16 Mar 50min
Randy Barnett: Felony Review
Randy Barnett is a law professor at Georgetown University. But decades ago, he was a young prosecutor in Cook County’s State’s Attorney’s office. In Chicago, Randy dealt with gritty crime, of course, ...
9 Mar 1h 6min
Deborah Esquenazi: Night in West Texas
We’re taking you back to 1980s West Texas. When a Catholic priest was found murdered in a seedy hotel in Odessa, investigators focused on a gay Apache man who had made an accusation against the victim...
2 Mar 1h 1min
Seamus McElearney: Flipping Capo
FBI agent Seamus McElearney had dreamed of investigating the mafia in New York when he first joined the bureau. But of course, no one would flip on the families. No one had ever flipped on the familie...
23 Feb 1h 3min
